DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Monday, February 11, 2019

From CMMB: Urgent: Child Soldiers Still Trapped in South Sudan

It’s one thing to read about the atrocities of children being used and abused by armed groups. It’s a very different thing to sit next to a child and hear her story firsthand. Perhaps even worse, is meeting a 10-year-old girl and seeing the horrors of war through her eyes.

Rayan and her 12-year-old brother Ibrahim were home alone when the armed men arrived. They had come for their father, but in his absence, they looted the family home, abducted the two young children, and took them into the bush.

“I was scared. There were lots of men with guns. They hit us and shouted at us. Night time in the bush was the worst. When it was dark. When you heard footsteps you wondered if they were coming to get you.”
- Rayan, 10 years old

Children like Rayan and Ibrahim have had their childhoods stolen by armed groups in South Sudan.

The civil war in South Sudan has seen over 19,000 children abducted or forcefully recruited into different armed groups, and forced to fight, steal, and even kill. In the process, some were killed, others severely injured, and all were abused, traumatized, and stripped of their childhoods.

Rayan and Ibrahim are among more than 1,000 children who have been recently released from these armed groups and reunited with their families. Your support can provide medical care, trauma therapy, and a safe place for these children to be kids again.

You can help these children rebuild their lives and prevent another generation from being lost to the horrors of war.

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In hope,

President and CEO
CMMB/Healthier Lives Worldwide
PS: War violates the rights of children and denies them the joys of childhood. Your compassion can help children like Rayan rebuild their lives.

Healthier Lives Worldwide

LIFE IS SACRED

An example of the traditional magisterial teaching which indicates that it is never morally licit to intentionally kill a child through abortion in order to “save the life of its mother” comes from the teaching of Pope Pius XII:

“Every human being, even the infant in the mother's womb, has the right to life immediately from God, not from the parent or any human society or authority. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no medical, eugenic, social, economic or moral ‘indication’ that can show or give valid juridical title for direct deliberate disposition concerning an innocent human life-which is to say, a disposition that aims at its destruction either as an end in itself or as the means of attaining another end that is perhaps in no way illicit itself. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is a most noble end, but the direct killing of the child as a means to this end is not licit.”