How active is your church in missionary work in africa? TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF JOHN PAUL II SAHEL FOUNDATION VATICAN CITY, 13 FEB 2009 (VIS) - The John Paul II Foundation for the Sahel is commemorating its twenty-fifth anniversary. The idea to create this institution arose following John Paul II's first trip to Africa, when he visited Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso , in May 1980. It was established with a Chirograph on 22 February 1984. The anniversary was marked with a meeting of the foundation's management board held in Ouagadougou on 10 February. The celebrations will conclude with a Mass to be celebrated in that African city on 15 February. "The John Paul II Foundation for the Sahel is actively involved in managing and protecting natural resources, in the struggle against drought and desertification, in rural development and in the fight against poverty, through the real involvement of local people. Therefore it undertakes the training of animators ("cadres moyens"), and of health care workers, engineers, ... agronomists, and livestock and forest farmers ("cadres techniques"). One particularly important characteristic of the foundation is its openness to the different religions of local inhabitants, and thus it is also an instrument of inter-religious dialogue".
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Preventing people from using condoms that could save their lives.
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The Vatican's involvement is nothing more than a missionary involvement. In other words, to get converts.
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Probably trying to colonize it again and take its resources and deny its ppl food unless they convert
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The Catholic Church is sending people into AIDS ravaged Africa to tell people that condoms actually spread AIDS. So much for their "pro-life" stance.
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Spreading lies that condoms, which can save many people from HIV/AIDS is actually capable of spreading it. They're happy to let thousands of africans die, just so long as they don't do something that's against their personal set of moral values even though it causes no harm to any other person. Such nice, loving people.
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Don't get me started on the evils of the Catholic Church, it knows no boundaries.
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Well, their Knights of Columbus group--the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization--donated more than a million dollars to pass Prop. 8 in California. That was a measure meant to take away civil rights from law-abiding, taxpaying, gay Americans. Apparently, promoting the anti-gay agenda is more important to the Catholic Church than helping the destitute and hungry in Africa.
