EUROPE/SPAIN - Pro Vida Spain supports Casa de la Vida in Guayaquil, Ecuador, for young people, pregnant women and people suffering from HIV-AIDS

Wednesday, 7 February 2007

Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - During the 1st Pro Life and Family meeting in Ecuador there will be the consigning of a project ‘Home for Life, a concrete proposal to “spread the Gospel of Life in the darkness of the culture of death”, said Fr Paulino Toral of the Spanish Pro life Association.
With the support of Archbishop Antonio Arregui Yarza it was decided to open this Pro Vida Centre of Guayaquil. It is funded by the Association of María de la Buena Esperanza (AMBE) but born of a space open to all Catholics who wish to serve the Gospel of life and fight the culture of death, which sees the production and freezing of embryos in laboratories for experimentation, cloning, artificial fertilisation, wombs for rent, prenatal diagnosis to provoke abortion of malformed foetuses, etc.
According to the Archbishop, following the experience of the diocese of Ecuador, others will have their own “Casa de la Vida”. In November 2005 Fr Toral exposed an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Buena Esperanza in his parish. In one year 2,027 mothers consecrated themselves to Mary, every last Tuesday of the month about 170 pregnant women attend a special Mass celebrated for them and many mothers (at least 60) continue to attend the mass after the baby is born.
The goal of the Casa de la Vida is to evangelise the origins of human life. At the personal level it offers assistance and care to young women, pregnant mothers with HIV/AIDS in hospital. The aim is to Christianise the pregnant women and make pregnancy a religious as well as a medical process. The CDV offers gynaecological care, family guidance, spiritual direction by priests and catechists. Once a week AMBE visits the Hospital for Infective Diseases. At the structural level the centre campaigns for social, legal, government and political policies which respect life. (AP) (7/2/2007 Agenzia Fides; Righe:28; Parole:347)


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