Pope promotes AIDS! Africa pledged to step up involvement in fight against AIDS pandemic, while continuing to reject use of condoms. "The church says one must be faithful in marriage and we must listen to the pope"-Pope rejects condoms for Africa, originally uploaded by gailorenstein.
Pope promotes AIDS! Africa pledged to step up involvement in fight against AIDS pandemic, while continuing to reject use of condoms. "The church says one must be faithful in marriage and we must listen to the pope"-Pope rejects condoms for Africa
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Pope rejects condoms for Africa
The Pope has already met South African President Thabo Mbeki
The spread of HIV and Aids in Africa should be tackled through fidelity and abstinence and not by condoms, Pope Benedict XVI has said.
Speaking to African bishops at the Vatican, the Pope described HIV/Aids in Africa as a "cruel epidemic".
But he told them: "The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/Aids."
More than 60% of the world's 40m people with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa.
In South Africa alone, 600-1,000 people are thought to die every day because of Aids.
Pope Benedict, who was elected to succeed John Paul II in April, has already signalled that he will maintain a strictly traditional line on issues including abortion and homosexuality.
Before being elected pope, Benedict served as head of the Vatican's doctrinal office.
These were his first public comments on the issue of Aids/HIV and contraception since taking office.
It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking and a contraception mentality
Pope Benedict
He was addressing bishops from South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia and Lesotho, who had travelled to the Vatican for a routine papal audience.
Some Catholic clergymen have argued that the use of condoms to stem the spread of the disease would be a "lesser of two evils".
The Pope warned that contraception was one of a host of trends contributing to a "breakdown in sexual morality", and church teachings should not be ignored.
"It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking and a contraception mentality," he added.
The virus "seriously threatens the economic and social stability of the continent," the Pope said.
The UN estimates that without new initiatives and greater access to drugs, more than 80 million Africans may die from Aids by 2025 and HIV infections could reach 90 million, or 10% of the continent's population.
Churches in Africa continues AIDS fight without condoms
Catholic leaders in Africa have pledged to step up their involvement in the fight against the AIDS pandemic, while continuing to reject the use of condoms to fight the disease.
"We must listen to what the Pope is telling us" The church says one must be faithful in marriage and save oneself for marriage," said Senegal Bishop Alexandre Mbengue. "We cannot cave in to the current trend."
According to the UN agency UNAIDS sub-Saharan Africa is hardest hit by AIDS, being home to more than two-thirds of those infected with HIV worldwide - 29.4 million out of 42 million.
Congo's Kinshasa Archbishop Dominique Bulamatari said: "Using condoms as a means of preventing AIDS can only lead to sexual promiscuity."
However Nigeria's AIDS Alliance head Farouk Mohammed claims he has observed a softening of the church's position in the fight against AIDS.
"Excluding condom use, to which the church is still opposed, it is involved now in building awareness in and mobilising its members," he said.
A few minority voices among African church leaders condone condom use and urge Africa's Catholics to change their way of thinking to bring it more into line with the times.
"The condom is a stopgap, a lesser evil, but not the solution," said the bishop of Port Louis, Mauritius, Maurice Piat.
"The church's preachings are not about condoms, but about the urgency of fighting AIDS," he added, urging that the battle against the killer disease be waged "not with rubber, but with human resources."
Source; www.cathnews.com/news/310/53.php
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Hi tsch-
yes, that is a very good point! The West is the Autority, even if it means death-like messages from the Pope!
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tschnitzlein
You have raise a very great points by saying that the African cultural tolerance & Moral Values are important backdrop!!
From my study on civilization & the relationship about major religions is that it is the software that used by the king's or emperor's to use the Gods' & Demons to control their fellow people.
As the god base religions' have one thing in common, you believes in Gods then you go to heaven, if you don't you then go to hell!! Because in that creation of God, God is still the supreme in command in your soul , the invisible one, the one that decide the classification of one rich or poor have or have not, & the life & death of an individual being.
However, today NASA already prove time & again that the Death of the
planets universe are exactly mentioned by both Lao Zi, & Gotama.
That is:
Here Demised,
There Arises!!
Now looking at the Beijing Ren( The Asian Early man) which is about 6millions years ago & the African Early man, they all share one common body structure & the almost at the sametime.
As I believes, the all beings nature have sex naturally is to reproduce , so that there are continuety of lives!! From the human being to the lowest forms of life like Cancer cells all are the same!!
Before, the era of Albert Eistein & the computing & communications technology era. The thoeries & doctrines of God or gods would work. However, with the science & technology of today, the thoery of god would harder to be accepted & blindly followed.
In my opinion to add to tschnitzlein
Points, I recommend that the Education on philosophies of the truth, about Birth & Death Cycle, the precepts on preventions, the suffering of illness..etc. should be done most urgently.
Prevention is Always Better then cure!!
Yin & Yang must always be balance!!
Just like Day & Night
Sun & the Moon!!
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