Colombian Episcopate Promotes Day of the Unborn



BOGOTA, Colombia, MARCH 16, 2004 
(Zenit.org).-

The Colombian episcopate invited the country's
Catholics to observe the Day of the Unborn on March
25, feast of the Annunciation. 

"This event is an attempt to promote the annual
observance of a day in defense of children who are
conceived but not yet born. The central theme will be
the defense of human life that is gestating in the
wombs of mothers who joyfully expect a child,"
explains an informative note by the bishops'
Department of Social Communication in the bulletin
Spectativa. 

"A new element that intervenes in the motivation for
this Day is the need to give formation on the meaning
of paternity and maternity, especially to 
adolescents and youths," it adds. 

In this connection, the episcopate's Family Section
gave evangelization agents, especially those dedicated
to marriage and family pastoral care, a book 
entitled "National Pro-Life Day: Love, the Cradle of
Life." 

The volume also includes a document of Cardinal
Alfonso López Trujillo, president of the Pontifical
Council for the Family, on "Family Values Against Safe

Sex."


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