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Just one World

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Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF)

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SCIAF is a Scottish Catholic charity uniting together to end poverty.

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Just one World

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Catholic international development charity | CAFOD

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CAFOD is the Catholic international development charity in England and Wales. Donate, campaign, download prayers or volunteer to help fight poverty.

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Aid to the Church in Need

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The newest title in the internationally best-selling "YOUCAT" series for youth and young adults, this outstanding Bible features the creative elements of the best-selling YOUCAT youth catechism and the DOCAT social teaching handbook. It's filled with engaging photos, clever and fun illustrations by YOUCAT's award-winning designer, insightful sidebar quotes from great thinkers, Catholic saints and leaders, past and present and young people living their faith today.

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Caritas Social Action Network)

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Inspired by the life and example of Jesus Christ, Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN) was established by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales to develop the Church's social action in these parts of the United Kingdom. We share in the mission of the Catholic Church. We want England and Wales to be places where every person can flourish in their families and communities, living with peace and human dignity.

We are a small national team, based in London, seeking to strengthen and facilitate Catholic charitable activities, and to bring the voices of the poor and Catholic teaching to bear in guiding public policy.

Caritas Social Action Network seeks to develop capacity for voluntary and community action, informed by Catholic social thought, in partnerships with the 22 dioceses in England and Wales, and through a network of independent member organisations with Catholic roots and professional competencies in their fields. Their work includes community and specialist support for families and children, the elderly, the homeless, refugees, the disabled, and prisoners. Their approach is often distinctive in supporting people who cannot access help elsewhere, in building on the dignity and strengths of each person, and being able to work over the long term. They draw on deep and lasting connections of volunteers and staff with their local communities.

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Inspired by the life and example of Jesus Christ, Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN) was established by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales to develop the Church's social action in these parts of the United Kingdom. We share in the mission of the Catholic Church.

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One man + one woman

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KEEP ABORTION OUT OF UN DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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Killing innocent children in the womb should not be a a part of global development policies.

In 2015 the United Nations system will decide how billions of dollars will be spent to eradicate poverty, improve health and education, and help poor countries develop economically. Negotiations are underway to decide what policies find their way into the post-2015 development agenda. This development agenda will guide global and national policies for decades.

Abortion groups already receive billions of dollars from governments, private foundations and UN agencies with the pretext of providing "sexual and reproductive health and services" and "reproductive rights" - often code words for abortion. They want to get even more money by including these policies in the post-2015 development agenda.

These groups should not be given any more of our taxes. They present false information about abortion through education, training, and advocacy. They say that making abortion legal will solve the problem of maternal deaths. This is false!

Legal abortion does not reduce maternal mortality. In fact, abortion does nothing to solve the underlying causes of maternal mortality, which include bleeding, infection, high blood pressure, and other pregnancy and childbirth complications.

Effective policies to address maternal mortality and morbidity, as well as complications from abortions, are well known: water and sanitation, women's education, better pre and post natal care, skilled birth attendants, better health care infrastructure, access to medicines, transportation, and birthing facilities.

Countries like Chile and Ireland that prohibit abortion are regional and global leaders in preventing maternal mortality and morbidity because they have adopted those policies.

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KEEP ABORTION OUT OF UN DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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Killing innocent children in the womb should not be a a part of global development policies. In 2015 the United Nations system will decide how billions of dollars will be spent to eradicate poverty, improve health and education, and help poor countries develop economically.

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When Things Seem Pointless

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Please join us in praying for the pro-life cause this Wednesday 16th May evening. Mass will be celebrated by Fr Ross Campbell. The programme for the evening is: Eucharistic adoration 6-7 pm, Rosary 7 pm, Mass 7:30 pm. Followed by refreshments. Join us for as little or as much of the evening as you can.

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Supporting Marys Meals

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Mary's Meals aims to provide chronically hungry children with one meal every school day, encouraging education that can lift them out of poverty in later life.

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Voice for the unborn

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Pro-life pregnancy counsellors are "doing an heroic job", says the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) the UK's largest pro-life organisation.

SPUC was commenting in the light of The Telegraph newspaper's attack, in concert with pro-abortion campaigners, on crisis pregnancy centres manned by pro-life counsellors.

Paul Tully, SPUC's general secretary, commented: "SPUC does not run crisis pregnancy centres, but we encourage such efforts and provide some groups with literature telling accurately about what abortion does to women and babies. Our literature is backed up with medical evidence. In our experience, on the whole, crisis pregnancy centres are doing an heroic job, in the face of concerted and deceitful opposition from representatives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the avaricious abortion industry which the RCOG represents."

Mr Tully continued: "The counselling centres are helping hundreds of women to avoid abortion, and playing a significant part in reducing the abortion rate. Many of them not only provide counselling but practical support - something which none of the abortion agencies do. Also, unlike abortionists, these counselling centres do not receive NHS funding contingent on the outcome of the services they provide."

Mr Tully added: "Doctors falsify statutory abortion forms on a routine basis, with the connivance of the RCOG and the Department of Health. This enriches abortion merchants such as the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), out of the deaths of over 500 babies every day. Dishonest doctors are raking in huge fees, and are jealous of those groups who are snatching potential victims away from them.

"Dr Kate Guthrie of the RCOG told The Telegraph that there is 'absolutely no evidence that abortions lead to an increased risk of breast cancer'. Dr Guthrie's statement is simply not true. Although the evidence is not conclusive, it is voluminous. For example, in November last year a meta-analysis of 36 studies of the possible abortion-breast cancer link among Chinese females found a 44% increased risk of breast cancer after one or more abortions, 76% increased risk after two abortions or more, and 89% increaseed risk after 3 or more abortions. Although this does not prove that abortion causes breast cancer, for a doctor to deny that such evidence exists is irresponsible, and to try to stop women finding out about suggests a profound commitment to promoting abortion", concluded Mr Tully.

References:

Dr Yubei Huang et al., A meta-analysis of the association between induced abortion and breast cancer risk among Chinese females, Cancer Causes Control DOI 10.1007/s10552-013-0325-7, November 2013 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10552-013-0325-7

Anthony McCarthy, Open Letter to the British Humanist Association and Education for Choice in response to allegations made about SPUC's education programme, 25 May 2012 https://www.spuc.org.uk/documents/papers/humanists20120525 (this letter contains further references to evidence linking abortion to breast cancer, as well to infertility and to psychiatric harm).

Paul Tully, SPUC's general secretary, can be contacted on 07939 178719 or 020 7820 3127. SPUC's communications department can be contacted on:

To subscribe to SPUC's email information services, please use the Newsletter Sign-up form to the right of this article.

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Pro-life pregnancy counsellors "doing an heroic job", says UK's larges

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Pro-life pregnancy counsellors are "doing an heroic job", says the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) the UK's largest pro-life organisation. SPUC was commenting in the light of The Telegraph newspaper's attack, in concert with pro-abortion campaigners, on crisis pregnancy centres manned by pro-life counsellors.

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ProLife Alliance - Promoting equal rights to life for all human beings

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Promoting equal rights to life for all human beings