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Jamaican missionaries lead effort to stop abortion, launch massive pro-life center
LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Life, Family, and Culture Outpost ^ | June 22, 2011 | Rebecca Millette

Posted on 06/22/2011 12:17:51 PM PDT by topher

Jamaican missionaries lead effort to stop abortion, launch massive pro-life center

by Rebecca Millette

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 20, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although abortion is currently illegal in the Caribbean island of Jamaica, the effort to fight recent attempts at its legalization, as well as the back alley abortion trade, has required an enormous amount of energy and ingenuity.

The leaders in this effort are The Missionaries of the Poor (MOP), an international monastic order of brothers and priests, with over 500 members worldwide, founded in 1981 by Rev. Fr. Richard Ho Lung in Kingston, Jamaica. The order also recently started a sisterhood for nuns as part of their work helping pregnant women and new mothers.

Relying exclusively on donations, the missionaries are dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor, the homeless, HIV/AIDS victims, mentally handicapped youth and adults, and the elderly. Currently, they sustain missions in Jamaica, Haiti, Africa, India, the Philippines, and North Carolina.

LifeSiteNews recently interviewed Rev. Fr. Charles Susai, Secretary General and Project Co-ordinator of the MOP, to learn more about the group’s work.

The MOP, Rev. Susai told LSN, not only lead the way in fighting efforts to legalize abortion in Parliament, but they seek to provide an alternative to abortion for women in crisis pregnancies through their missionary efforts.

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TOPICS: Catholic
KEYWORDS: abortion; catholic; jamaica; prolife
I have not heard of this religious order before.

Hope to hear more good things about them in the future!

1 posted on 06/22/2011 12:18:00 PM PDT by topher
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To: topher
This is absolutely thrilling: inspired, hands-on work to save the lives of these precious Jamaican people. Fron the article:

To support or volunteer with the Missionaries of the Poor in their apostolate and pro-life work, or learn more about them, visit their website http://www.missionariesofthepoor.org/

Rev. Fr. Richard Ho Lung, founder of the MOP, also appears weekly on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) on a show called “Church and the Poor”.

Donations may also be sent to:
Missionaries of the Poor
P.O. Box 29893
Atlanta, GA 30359

2 posted on 06/22/2011 12:41:51 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks the reason for the hope you have." 1 Peter 3:15)
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To: topher

Father Ho’s order visits our diocese every other year. I have met him a couple of times; he is terribly sweet. I send them my donations after the Haitian earthquake and other disaster, because I know the funds will go to feed people who would otherwise starve.


3 posted on 06/22/2011 2:13:59 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Quien vive? JESUS! Y a su nombre? GLORIA!)
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To: All; Mrs. Don-o

I love his witness for Christ. He is a doer not just a talker. I have been sending money for awhile. Praise Jesus!!!


4 posted on 06/22/2011 7:03:56 PM PDT by johngrace
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To: Tax-chick

Amen!!


5 posted on 06/22/2011 7:05:23 PM PDT by johngrace
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To: All; topher

He has sent beautiful e- mails from the heart after a donation. Truly impressed me. He spoke right from the heart like I knew him. Just a great man of God.


6 posted on 06/22/2011 7:09:10 PM PDT by johngrace
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Fr. Richard Ho Lung

I love this guy.

7 posted on 06/23/2011 6:18:36 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Keeping an eye on this one.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; johngrace

He’s just as charming and humble in real life as he is on tv or his newsletter, and the other MOP priests I’ve met, as well as their lay coworkers, have all been terrific. Fr. Ho has a Jamaican musical troupe that performs concerts and musicals as fundraisers for the missions. Listening to them is just like being in heaven, I think, but my husband said it was dreadful trying to play guitar with them, because Fr. Ho writes many of the songs by inspiration, and he has no musical background. He’s even had popular hits on the radio in Jamaica.


8 posted on 06/23/2011 8:34:31 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Quien vive? JESUS! Y a su nombre? GLORIA!)
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