Muslims and Catholics Work Together in Phillippines on Pro Life Issue

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Urged by several pro-life groups, thousands of Filipino citizens, Christians and Muslims alike, including many young people, took to the streets of the capital on Saturday calling on Congress to reject the ‘Ligtas Buntis’ (safe pregnancy) bill.

Filipino Bishops have said the bill “is a violation of the privacy and autonomy of couples and families”. By contrast, for the bill’s backers, population control is the only means to lift people out of poverty and misery.

Archbishop Mariano Aniceto, chairman of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines’ Episcopal Commission on Family and Life, insisted that “poverty was not a result of overpopulation but of wrong economic prioritization.”

Councillor Grepor ‘Butch’ Belgica also said the problem of the economy is not the number of people, but the low rate of productivity caused by corruption, including political corruption.

In his view, too much population control could have dire consequences for the future of the nation.

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a miserable execuse to blame poverty on overpopulation. Japan has one of the largest population density in the world yet it’s one of the richest

 

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Yeah, but check this out in the same philipines.

**Evangelical churches back reproductive health bills (11:26 a.m.)

**MANILA – If the Catholic Church is against population control, evangelical churches are in favor of reproductive health bills pending in Congress.

Bishop Fred Magbanua, president of the Council of Christian Bishops of the Philippines (CCBP), said the 20,000 evangelical churches in the country throw their support to the proposed Responsible Parenthood and Population Management Act of 2005.

Magbanua said he does not see any provision in the bill that encourages abortion but merely promotes family planning by improving health care services for women and children.

Magbanua also said the Holy Bible does not prevent the use of contraceptives provided that they are not abortifacients and that planning of a family’s size is based on morality.

“Contraceptives, as long as they do not interfere with the fertilized egg, is both moral and biblical,” said Magbanua. (MSN)

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philipmarus:

Yeah, but check this out in the same philipines.

**Evangelical churches back reproductive health bills (11:26 a.m.)

**MANILA – If the Catholic Church is against population control, evangelical churches are in favor of reproductive health bills pending in Congress.

Bishop Fred Magbanua, president of the Council of Christian Bishops of the Philippines (CCBP), said the 20,000 evangelical churches in the country throw their support to the proposed Responsible Parenthood and Population Management Act of 2005.

Magbanua said he does not see any provision in the bill that encourages abortion but merely promotes family planning by improving health care services for women and children.

Magbanua also said the Holy Bible does not prevent the use of contraceptives provided that they are not abortifacients and that planning of a family’s size is based on morality.

“Contraceptives, as long as they do not interfere with the fertilized egg, is both moral and biblical,” said Magbanua. (MSN)

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1930, protestantism destroyed the life

 

[philipmarus]

Here’s more on Protestants in the Philipines trying to legalize Contraception:

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**Protestant bishops disputes CBCP stand on family planning

**Posted 09:31am (Mla time) Mar 10, 2005
Inquirer News Service

TAKING up the cudgels for House Bill No. 3773, the Council of Christian Bishops of the Philippines (CCBP) Wednesday challenged its Catholic counterpart to cite a solid biblical basis for the latter’s adamant stand against family planning.
At a press conference in the House, CCBP chair Bishop Fred Magbanua said the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) should produce proof showing that HB 3773 (or the proposed Responsible Parenthood and Population Management Act of 2005) was endorsing abortion.

The CCBP is composed of ministers of about 51,000 Protestant, evangelical and born-again Christian churches, which have a total of 12 million members.

Magbanua said the CCBP was willing to debate with the CBCP on canon and encyclical laws dealing with family planning.

“They lack understanding [of the bill]. Many of them are misinformed,” he said, adding that many Catholic priests actually held a progressive view on the issue.

Magbanua said the measure would http://news.inq7.net/breaking/images/common/pixel.gif

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go a long way in improving the quality of life.

“We’re pro-life, so it means that this bill is against abortion. That’s why we’re supporting it,” he said.

Also present during the press conference organized by the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development Foundation Inc. were Representative Rodante Marcoleta of the party-list group Alagad and Representatives Nereus Acosta, Janet Garin and Nerissa Ruiz.

All four pushed for the passage of HB 3773, a consolidated version of several bills on reproductive health and women’s rights that has so far gathered 80 signatures in the House of Representatives. Michael Lim

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[philipmarus]

Here’s Solo Scriptura in action. The Protestant in Philipines are basicially challenged the Catholic Church to show where Contraception forbidden in the Bible. An argument for the return of the confessional state.