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Dear Friends for Life,
This week we have an insight by Dr. Ambrose Pinto S.J. concerning the interest of the poor and marginalised people in India. "People are Dissatisfied and Angry" - "At no point in the history of independent India people have been as dissatisfied with the state as they are now. When the poor are alienated from the state and the governments are working against the interests of the poor and marginalised people, what other options do people have than join the ranks of extremism?
However, the government is running a programme against these communities by removing them from their lands and handing over these lands to transnational and multinational corporations. This has caused the problem of displacement and livelihood in a big way. Any land acquisition that hands over land to private interests is illegitimate. We could even term this as a terrorist act since the people have no livelihood anymore. Very often land is acquired with the help of the police and armed forces from the poor and handed over to the rich. More and more people feel that with liberalisation of the economy democratic govern-ments are in the pocket of the elite financial interests abroad.
In a democracy people have a right to dissent. It's plain for all to see how dissenters are treated in our democracy. They are brutally put down. Look at the way the protests at the nuclear plants in Kudankulam and other places are treated. Cases are filed on the protestors with manufactured allegations. Police beat up peaceful protests with lathis and do not even hesitate to fire. It looks as if the people do not matter. The land of the poor is simply taken over in spite of all protests. Mines and natural resources are looted and plundered
The incident of killing 28 people representing the state players by the Maoists is called a terror act and tears are shed by the mainstream. But why do we not shed tears in this country when hundreds of farmers commit suicide due to indebtedness?". --Dr Ambrose Pinto S.J. in Mainstream
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(The Difference is LIFE) "When we do not profess Jesus Christ, the saying of Léon Bloy comes to mind: "Anyone who does not pray to the Lord prays to the devil." When we do not profess Jesus Christ, we profess the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness." - Pope Francis.
June 23, 2013 ******************************
(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. God and family in the West
2. As a result of forced sterilisations, 4.6 million women can no longer have children in India
3. Belgian Parliament Posed To Approve Child Euthanasia Law
4. Shavonne's Story: Market Competition Collision (Egg Donor Stories)
5. How to make a digital human brain
6. Vatican Cardinal: Contraception 'is fundamentally an anti-life act'
7. 10 Harms of Pornography
8. A million children are growing up without a father
9. Sex tourism's impact on Philippine Christian communities
10. Why We're Contraception-Free, Part 1: Asking the Question
11. The Catholic Tradition on the Morality of Contraception
12. "Child labor is a scourge to be fought," the appeal of a Filipino bishop
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ITEM #1: God and family in the West
Has the West really lost God? We prayed after the Boston Marathon bombings, after all. Is this "tsunami of secularism" stuff overblown?
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ITEM #2: As a result of forced sterilisations, 4.6 million women can no longer have children in India
Often women are tricked into accepting tubal ligation. Recruited for birth control campaigns, actors go from village to village, offering women US$ 10, or about a week's salary for a poor family, in order to undergo this operation. In principle, it is a free choice but in practice the women are not told that they can no longer have children. Many agree only because of the extreme poverty in which they live.
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ITEM #3: Belgian Parliament Posed To Approve Child Euthanasia Law
The Belgian Federal Parliament is reportedly about to expand its controversial "right to die" policies to include access to euthanasia for some gravely ill children.
******************************
ITEM #4: Shavonne's Story: Market Competition Collision
This story is unique in that the woman was asked first to sell her eggs to help make a baby, then the agency asked her to consider selling her eggs for embryonic stem cell research.
Linda's Story
Rose's Story
Cathy's Story
R.D.'s Story
Y's Story
A.D.'s Story
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ITEM #5: How to make a digital human brain
Futurists warn of a technological singularity on the not-too-distant horizon when artificial intelligence will equal and eventually surpass human intelligence. But before engineers can make a machine that truly mimics a human mind, scientists still have a long way to go in modeling the brain's 100 billion neurons and their 100 trillion connections.
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ITEM #6: Vatican Cardinal: Contraception 'is fundamentally an anti-life act'
"Contraception is the beginning of the anti-life movement," Cardinal Burke told CNS' Francis Rocca. "It certainly will favor an abortion culture. It takes the nature of the sexual union and violates it in a very significant way by removing the pro-creative aspect which is inherent to the union of man and a woman, the sexual union, the conjugal union."
******************************
ITEM #7 10 Harms of Pornography
The following report initially appeared as a five-part series during the 2012 White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week and has been updated with more information.
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ITEM #8: A million children are growing up without a father
The number of single parent families is growing at a rate of 20,000 a year and is expected to reach more than two million by the next general election, according to a new report by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ). Higher rates of teenage crime, pregnancy and disadvantage are believed to be linked to the increased absence of fathers.
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ITEM #9: Sex tourism's impact on Philippine Christian communities
The Philippines is now one of the world's most popular destinations for sex tourism. A priest who works with abused children says it is affecting Christian communities.
******************************
ITEM #10: Why We're Contraception-Free, Part 1: Asking the Question
It was nighttime and we were at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France when I knelt down on one knee, pulled out the ring box, and asked Krista if she would do me the honor of marrying me. The reply: "Yes with all my heart!"
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ITEM #11: The Catholic Tradition on the Morality of Contraception
There are pressing reasons why a Catholic should know the history of the Church's doctrine on contraception. In Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul appeals to the "landmarks in the human Christian vision of marriage," and to the "teaching of the Church on the regulation of birth," for declaring that artificial contraception is forbidden by divine law. To see some of these landmarks and the unbroken teaching of the Church is more than ever necessary today, when the papal pronouncement is called into question.
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Over 5 million children between 5 and 17 years are employed to work inhuman hours. Appeal of a bishop: "We need more targeted social policies, to counter the irresponsibility of parents and poverty."
*****************************
YOU CAN CHANGE SOCIETY:
1. BE INFORMED: "My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6. Visit Lifeissues.net Website for insights into current Life Issues www.lifeissues.net. Access to all prior Newsletters is located in the Archives on main page.
2. PRAY DAILY: for the courage to be God's presence in society and to strongly support those who are deemed "unworthy of life". "If My people who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14
3. BECOME INVOLVED: Several years ago Fr. Jerry created a project entitled, "Journey for Life into the Heart of Asia". The project appeals for donations to help finance plane travel for lectures and seminars to developing countries in Asia. Strong focus is centered on reaching Asian Catholic Major Seminaries, Universities, Parishes, Hospitals and Family/Pro Life related groups. The lectures place emphasis on "The Asian Family at Crossroads: Life Issues, Trends and Challenges".
For information about no-cost Pro Life Talks to your group in Asia: contact Fr. Jerry at jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp.
To become a supportive Missionary participant for this Asian project, kindly send your donations to:
** Fr. Jerry Novotny, OMI
** LifeIssues.net, Editor
** Akebono-cho 1-15-9
** Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072
(or transfer donation directly to ProLife bank account: Jerome Novotny, Shikoku Bank, Asakura Branch, No. 102-1-0080824)
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Get a weekly dose of clear thinking: subscribe to our free Lifeissues newsletter! Sign up at www.LifeIssues.net. Pass this free service to your friends and various groups.
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Contact EDITOR:
Jerry Novotny, OMI
Akebono-cho 1-15-9
Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072
[tel/fax: 088-843-0406]
[email: jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp]
["Due to volume of spam received, we're asking you not to reply to this message but instead send all correspondence to jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp. Thank you! Editor"]
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English LifeIssues Site: http://www.lifeissues.net,
Japanese LifeIssues Site: http://www.japan-lifeissues.ne
HIV/AIDS Site: http://capcha.org
OMI Japan/Korea Site: http://omijapankorea.net/
This week we have an insight by Dr. Ambrose Pinto S.J. concerning the interest of the poor and marginalised people in India. "People are Dissatisfied and Angry" - "At no point in the history of independent India people have been as dissatisfied with the state as they are now. When the poor are alienated from the state and the governments are working against the interests of the poor and marginalised people, what other options do people have than join the ranks of extremism?
However, the government is running a programme against these communities by removing them from their lands and handing over these lands to transnational and multinational corporations. This has caused the problem of displacement and livelihood in a big way. Any land acquisition that hands over land to private interests is illegitimate. We could even term this as a terrorist act since the people have no livelihood anymore. Very often land is acquired with the help of the police and armed forces from the poor and handed over to the rich. More and more people feel that with liberalisation of the economy democratic govern-ments are in the pocket of the elite financial interests abroad.
In a democracy people have a right to dissent. It's plain for all to see how dissenters are treated in our democracy. They are brutally put down. Look at the way the protests at the nuclear plants in Kudankulam and other places are treated. Cases are filed on the protestors with manufactured allegations. Police beat up peaceful protests with lathis and do not even hesitate to fire. It looks as if the people do not matter. The land of the poor is simply taken over in spite of all protests. Mines and natural resources are looted and plundered
The incident of killing 28 people representing the state players by the Maoists is called a terror act and tears are shed by the mainstream. But why do we not shed tears in this country when hundreds of farmers commit suicide due to indebtedness?". --Dr Ambrose Pinto S.J. in Mainstream
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(The Difference is LIFE) "When we do not profess Jesus Christ, the saying of Léon Bloy comes to mind: "Anyone who does not pray to the Lord prays to the devil." When we do not profess Jesus Christ, we profess the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness." - Pope Francis.
*---*(Due to volume of spam received, do not reply to this message but instead send all emails to jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp. Thank you!)
******************************June 23, 2013 ******************************
(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. God and family in the West
2. As a result of forced sterilisations, 4.6 million women can no longer have children in India
3. Belgian Parliament Posed To Approve Child Euthanasia Law
4. Shavonne's Story: Market Competition Collision (Egg Donor Stories)
5. How to make a digital human brain
6. Vatican Cardinal: Contraception 'is fundamentally an anti-life act'
7. 10 Harms of Pornography
8. A million children are growing up without a father
9. Sex tourism's impact on Philippine Christian communities
10. Why We're Contraception-Free, Part 1: Asking the Question
11. The Catholic Tradition on the Morality of Contraception
12. "Child labor is a scourge to be fought," the appeal of a Filipino bishop
******************************
******************************
ITEM #1: God and family in the West
Has the West really lost God? We prayed after the Boston Marathon bombings, after all. Is this "tsunami of secularism" stuff overblown?
******************************
ITEM #2: As a result of forced sterilisations, 4.6 million women can no longer have children in India
Often women are tricked into accepting tubal ligation. Recruited for birth control campaigns, actors go from village to village, offering women US$ 10, or about a week's salary for a poor family, in order to undergo this operation. In principle, it is a free choice but in practice the women are not told that they can no longer have children. Many agree only because of the extreme poverty in which they live.
******************************
ITEM #3: Belgian Parliament Posed To Approve Child Euthanasia Law
The Belgian Federal Parliament is reportedly about to expand its controversial "right to die" policies to include access to euthanasia for some gravely ill children.
******************************
ITEM #4: Shavonne's Story: Market Competition Collision
This story is unique in that the woman was asked first to sell her eggs to help make a baby, then the agency asked her to consider selling her eggs for embryonic stem cell research.
Linda's Story
Rose's Story
Cathy's Story
R.D.'s Story
Y's Story
A.D.'s Story
******************************
ITEM #5: How to make a digital human brain
Futurists warn of a technological singularity on the not-too-distant horizon when artificial intelligence will equal and eventually surpass human intelligence. But before engineers can make a machine that truly mimics a human mind, scientists still have a long way to go in modeling the brain's 100 billion neurons and their 100 trillion connections.
******************************
ITEM #6: Vatican Cardinal: Contraception 'is fundamentally an anti-life act'
"Contraception is the beginning of the anti-life movement," Cardinal Burke told CNS' Francis Rocca. "It certainly will favor an abortion culture. It takes the nature of the sexual union and violates it in a very significant way by removing the pro-creative aspect which is inherent to the union of man and a woman, the sexual union, the conjugal union."
******************************
ITEM #7 10 Harms of Pornography
The following report initially appeared as a five-part series during the 2012 White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week and has been updated with more information.
******************************
ITEM #8: A million children are growing up without a father
The number of single parent families is growing at a rate of 20,000 a year and is expected to reach more than two million by the next general election, according to a new report by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ). Higher rates of teenage crime, pregnancy and disadvantage are believed to be linked to the increased absence of fathers.
******************************
ITEM #9: Sex tourism's impact on Philippine Christian communities
The Philippines is now one of the world's most popular destinations for sex tourism. A priest who works with abused children says it is affecting Christian communities.
******************************
ITEM #10: Why We're Contraception-Free, Part 1: Asking the Question
It was nighttime and we were at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France when I knelt down on one knee, pulled out the ring box, and asked Krista if she would do me the honor of marrying me. The reply: "Yes with all my heart!"
******************************
ITEM #11: The Catholic Tradition on the Morality of Contraception
There are pressing reasons why a Catholic should know the history of the Church's doctrine on contraception. In Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul appeals to the "landmarks in the human Christian vision of marriage," and to the "teaching of the Church on the regulation of birth," for declaring that artificial contraception is forbidden by divine law. To see some of these landmarks and the unbroken teaching of the Church is more than ever necessary today, when the papal pronouncement is called into question.
******************************
Over 5 million children between 5 and 17 years are employed to work inhuman hours. Appeal of a bishop: "We need more targeted social policies, to counter the irresponsibility of parents and poverty."
*****************************
YOU CAN CHANGE SOCIETY:
1. BE INFORMED: "My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6. Visit Lifeissues.net Website for insights into current Life Issues www.lifeissues.net. Access to all prior Newsletters is located in the Archives on main page.
2. PRAY DAILY: for the courage to be God's presence in society and to strongly support those who are deemed "unworthy of life". "If My people who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14
3. BECOME INVOLVED: Several years ago Fr. Jerry created a project entitled, "Journey for Life into the Heart of Asia". The project appeals for donations to help finance plane travel for lectures and seminars to developing countries in Asia. Strong focus is centered on reaching Asian Catholic Major Seminaries, Universities, Parishes, Hospitals and Family/Pro Life related groups. The lectures place emphasis on "The Asian Family at Crossroads: Life Issues, Trends and Challenges".
For information about no-cost Pro Life Talks to your group in Asia: contact Fr. Jerry at jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp.
To become a supportive Missionary participant for this Asian project, kindly send your donations to:
** Fr. Jerry Novotny, OMI
** LifeIssues.net, Editor
** Akebono-cho 1-15-9
** Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072
(or transfer donation directly to ProLife bank account: Jerome Novotny, Shikoku Bank, Asakura Branch, No. 102-1-0080824)
------------------------------
Get a weekly dose of clear thinking: subscribe to our free Lifeissues newsletter! Sign up at www.LifeIssues.net. Pass this free service to your friends and various groups.
------------------------------
Contact EDITOR:
Jerry Novotny, OMI
Akebono-cho 1-15-9
Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072
[tel/fax: 088-843-0406]
[email: jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp]
["Due to volume of spam received, we're asking you not to reply to this message but instead send all correspondence to jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp. Thank you! Editor"]
------------------------------
Websites by Editor:
English LifeIssues Site: http://www.lifeissues.net,
Japanese LifeIssues Site: http://www.japan-lifeissues.ne
HIV/AIDS Site: http://capcha.org
OMI Japan/Korea Site: http://omijapankorea.net/
