Four days beofre Pope john Paul 2 died he donated to pro-life

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Date: 2005-04-28

In His Last Days, John Paul II Helped the Pro-life Cause

RIMINI, Italy, APRIL 28, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Four days before his death, Pope John Paul II allocated 25,000 euros to the Italian Pro-Life Movement, which helps mothers and their unborn babies.

The donation was revealed Monday by Carlo Casini, the movement’s president, during the association’s national assembly in Rimini.

“I find it moving that this help, altogether unexpected and absolutely spontaneous, along with his words of encouragement and blessing, arrived on March 29, four days before the Holy Father’s death,” Casini said.

“I have decided to allocate the sum to the Gemma Project to ‘adopt’ those mothers who would be pushed to abort for financial reasons,” he added. The Gemma Project offers financial support to expectant mothers who opt against abortion in favor of life.

Gemma officials estimate that John Paul II’s gift would help to save nine children, whose fate was uncertain. Two of the nine expectant mothers who already have benefited from the donation are of Polish origin.

The Gemma Project enables an individual, a family, or a group to “adopt” a mother in difficulties by donating 160 euros a month during the last six months of her pregnancy and the baby’s first 12 months after birth. Since 1984 there have been 11,000 such “adoptions.”
zenit.org/english/show_5.php
 
Does anyone know if the Gemma Project has a web site? I googled, and didn’t find anything.
 
Great article…He was just so magnificent… wasn’t he?!:crying:
 
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MistyF:
Does anyone know if the Gemma Project has a web site? I googled, and didn’t find anything.
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Don’t forget it’s in Italy so it might be named Progetto Gemma and the website would probably be in Italian. I think this is it:

mpv.org/a_5_IT_18_1.html
 
MistyF
Welcome home. If you have time I would love to read how God intervened in your life.
 
MistyF
The Gemma Project may be named after St. Gemma Galgani although I was unable to find the original story at the Zenith website to verify.
She was born in 1878 and at the age of 19 after her father died she was left to care for her 7 brothers and sisters. Once they grew up she declined two marriage proposals choosing to devote herself to a life of prayer. She was miraculously cured of a bout of meningitis at one point in her short life and later sought to become a nun; however, she was too sickly. She received the stigmata, the five wounds of Our Lord, which came every Thursday evening and left by Friday afternoon or Saturday. Finally, at the young age of 25 she died in 1903.
Hope this was helpful. Maybe the project was named after another saint. I have just emailed their website to find answers to this question.
 
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Misty F.:

Welcome home! The Angels in heaven rejoiced when they saw you walk in, as did your Father in heaven!

Here’s what I was able to find…

**NUMBER OF CHILDREN SAVED FROM ABORTION INCREASES BY 86% IN ITALY **
*Women Seeking Assistance in Life Centers Increases by 59%…

The Life Centers give the mothers every possible assistance: diapers, clothes, powdered milk, payment of water, electric and rent bills, medical care, and help in finding a home or employment. The Life Centers’ work often fills the voids left by other public organizations.

At a meeting of Life Centers held in Chianciano, Italy, it was clear that the Centers must remain faithful to their specific role: to save the lives of children at risk through abortion; to care, bringing them out of loneliness, to offer solidarity and friendship. And, secondly, to satisfy material needs.

The statistics given by the Secretariat of the Padua Life Center Relations reveal that, as a side effect of the increase in prenatal long distance adoptions, known as the “Gemma Project,” there is decided progress in the recovery of the Life Centers’ specific role. There have been 2,700 adoptions, including twins and “transferred” adoptions (where the adoption by other mothers became unnecessary).*

zenit.org/english/archive/9906/ZE990604.html

Italian Pro-Life Movement Saves 55,000 Children Over 25 Years - Veritable “City” of Babies Saved from Abortion

*The secretariat reports that this improvement in assistance on the part of the Centers is due to the fact that they are increasingly known, and that there is a 24-hour free phone line, the “SOS-Life.”

The Gemma project (temporal long-distance adoption of a pregnant mother and her unborn child) also assists mothers in need. Thanks to this project, 987 more children were born in 2001.

Pregnant women with abortion certificates (16%) arrive at CAV, 83% of whom have decided to continue with their pregnancy. Others come to the Centers at the suggestion of friends (27%), parishes and associations (11%), or other women who have lived through the same problem (8%). More rarely, they come from medical consultation centers (6%), although the latter have the obligation to offer them the service of volunteers.*

katolsk.no/nyheter/2002/05/22-0010.htm

Thjat’s what I found…

Please remember to write your Senators about the filibuster, and add two more to the list One Republican and one Democrat (Judge for yourself if he can be turned).

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=50594

forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=603302&postcount=10

forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=613154&postcount=20

My Post #36 & 37:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=629627&postcount=37 (the Republican)

forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=629599&postcount=36 (The Democrat)

Thank you for your efforts - They’re beginning to have results.

Blessed are they who act to save God’s Little Ones, Michael
 
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MistyF
Welcome home. If you have time I would love to read how God intervened in your life.
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Ani Ibi:
Hi Misty. Welcome home. Ani.
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Rosalinda:
Maybe the project was named after another saint. I have just emailed their website to find answers to this question.
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Traditional Ang:
Misty F.:

Welcome home! The Angels in heaven rejoiced when they saw you walk in, as did your Father in heaven!

Here’s what I was able to find…
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Thank you all for the warm responses! They really made me feel good. :blessyou:

I have kind of written parts of my story in various posts here, but I will put them all into one post, probably before bed this evening. I think it would be good for me to see it all put together, too.

And thank you also for the replies with information on the Gemma Project. I will take a look at the various links given.
 
Firstly, I want to say “welcome” Misty, too! I remember reading your story on another post - I think for the man who was looking for support as he weighed the decision to join the Church - It’s a wonderful story! Congratulations! :bounce:

Secondly, I had to fight back tears after reading this article. John Paul II was truly a beautiful soul.
 
Thank you Misty for the thread. I’ll read it. Today I received an answer from the Gemma Project as to why the name was selected.

"The name of Progetto Gemma comes from the idea of sprout from which the flower is born.

In fact the mother cares in her womb a “gemma” destined, after 9 months, “to flourish”.

Isn’t that beautiful?:tiphat:
 
Lisa4Catholics,
Thank you for posting the information on the Gemma Project. It led me to wonder if there is an equivalent organization in the United States. I’m also browsing Human Life International’s site, and it seems they are doing wonderful things worldwide. Is there a group doing temporal adoptions (if that is the term) of pregnant women here in the States? Thank you.
 
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