Acts, Chapter 10,
verse 22
They answered,
“Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by
the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his
house and to hear what you have to say.”
God is inclusive. He
loves all of us; there are no exclusive country clubs or universities in
heaven. Here God reveals to Peter a new perspective that even the hated Romans
have a place at the table of the Lord and this table is big enough to sit the
entire world. Today the secularists mark world population day.
World Population Day History[1]
World
Population Day seeks to draw attention to issues related to a growing global
population. The world's population as of April 2016, is over 7.4 Billion.
The world's population is rapidly surging with birth rates on the rise
and life expectancy increases. Over the last century, between 1916 and
2012, global life expectancy more than doubled from 34 to 70 years while world
population has quintupled from 1.5 billion to 7.3 billion between 1900 and
2016.
In 1989, the United Nations designated July 11th as World Population Day in an effort to garner attention for population issues and crises such as displaced people, rights and needs of women and girls and population safety on a global level. With an ever-growing world population, World Population Day serves to highlight the challenges and opportunities of this growth and its impact on planet sustainability, heavy urbanization, availability of health care and youth empowerment.
In 1989, the United Nations designated July 11th as World Population Day in an effort to garner attention for population issues and crises such as displaced people, rights and needs of women and girls and population safety on a global level. With an ever-growing world population, World Population Day serves to highlight the challenges and opportunities of this growth and its impact on planet sustainability, heavy urbanization, availability of health care and youth empowerment.
In order to provide a moral perspective, we affirm the following
principles derived from the social teaching of the Church.
1. Within the limits of their own competence, government officials have
rights and duties with regard to the population problems of their own nations—for
instance, in the matter of social legislation as it affects families, of
migration to cities, of information relative to the conditions and needs of the
nation. Government's positive role is to help bring about those conditions in
which married couples, without undue material, physical or psychological
pressure, may exercise responsible freedom in determining family size.
2. Decisions about family size and the frequency of births belong to the
parents and cannot be left to public authorities. Such decisions depend on a
rightly formed conscience which respects the divine law and takes into
consideration the circumstances of the places and the time. In forming their
consciences, parents should take into account their responsibilities toward
God, themselves, the children they have already brought into the world and the
community to which they belong, "following the dictates of their
conscience instructed about the divine law authentically interpreted and
strengthened by confidence in God."
3. Public authorities can provide information and recommend policies
regarding population, provided these are in conformity with moral law and
respect the rightful freedom of married couples.
4. Men and women should be informed of scientific advances of methods of
family planning whose safety has been well proven and which are in accord with
the moral law.
5. Abortion, directly willed and procured, even if for therapeutic
reasons, is to be absolutely excluded as a licit means of regulating births.
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