Posted on 10/10/2015 9:20:24 AM PDT by markomalley
Africa's Church leaders are tired of powerful Western nations refusing them aid unless they accept "progressive" legislation.
Pope Francis has called this "ideological colonization," and it often pushes contraception, abortion, sodomy and population control in third-world nations.
South Africa's Cdl. Wilfred Napier explains how "countries are told 'unless you pass certain legislation, you are not going to get the aid from the government or the agencies that give aid.'"
(video at link)
Archbishop John Baptist Odama, head of Uganda's bishops' conference, tells Catholic News Agency (CNA), "The issue of homosexuality should not be linked with saying 'if you don't accept this we won't help you.' That is criminal; I call it criminal."
"Aid should not be linked with ideological acceptance or rejection," he continues. "Aid is to save human life. If you link it to ideology it becomes contradictory ... it is self-defeating."
Rejecting what Pope St. John Paul II would have deemed a "culture of death," Abp. Odama declares, "Any other society, any other groups elsewhere should exist to promote life and protect life, so if it intends to limit the life to be protected or to be accepted to a certain way of thinking, then we run short."
Hence, in his opinion, "any issue against human life is an issue against humanity in general."
Archbishops from Ghana and Ethiopia are condemning ideological colonization as well.
Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra, Ghana, told journalists, "We found it rather very sad that some government could take the sovereignty of another country and say 'if you don't do this we won't do that.'" He considers this a "gross violation of what we call the sovereignty of countries."
Finally, Cdl. Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M., of Ethiopia, according to CNA, is saying the traditional values of his continent need to be given the proper respect.
The very people that are preaching about all cultures being equal and how we need to accept other culture’s customs are the ones pushing this ‘go homo or go away’ agenda.
My mind is split. Instead of offering aid, offer guidance on how to create a successful market. In a couple of generations, if Africans do what it takes, they’d largely catch up to Western nations.
“Africa’s Church leaders are tired of powerful Western nations refusing them aid”
Now, that’s funny I don’t care who you are.
“My mind is split. Instead of offering aid, offer guidance on how to create a successful market. In a couple of generations, if Africans do what it takes, they’d largely catch up to Western nations.”
They have at their fingertips right now the gift of all of the worlds knowledge. Never before in the history of humanity has so much information been available to so many. If they cannot self motivate and make use of that, f&$@kem
Stand fast & God Bless!
As much as i tell myself not to post this.....They will take the money.
The men of the clothe, who dare to stand up to the crack-brained gobbling of those promoting the "Devious Western Agenda," should be applauded, not cynically dismissed.
Do they ever say this to Moslem countries? Didn’t think so.
I read the headline and thought the article was about the synod.
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