Korean church launches pro-life campaign in memory of John Paul II
The campaign starts on 20 April. One of the documents to be used is the encyclical, "Evangelium Vitae". The Korean church is pressing ahead with its battle against misuse of embryos.
Seoul (AsiaNews/CBCK) To commemorate the great pope John Paul II one year after his death, the Committee on Life chaired by Mgr Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Auxiliary Bishop of Seoul, has launched a campaign in the Korean capital to disseminate pro-life church documents.
Throughout his pontificate, John Paul II time and again urged the church and mankind to make all efforts possible to defend life "from the mother's womb" until its "natural end".
Starting from 20 April, the committee will organize a meeting every Thursday in the conference hall of the Catholic centre Myeong-dong. All people interested in a pro-life culture are invited to attend.
Among documents chosen for the campaign are: Evangelium Vitae, an encyclical on threats to human life that John Paul II issued on March 25, 1995; "Charter for Health Care Workers" by the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers; "The Life and the Family" by the Committee for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea (CBCK); "Human Life: The First Wonder!" by Rev. Remigio Lee Dong-ik, secretary of the CBCK Bioethics Committee; "Living man is the Glory of God" by Rev Paul Lee Chang-young, a member of the CBCK Bioethics Committee; "Choose Life" by the Life 31 Movement of the CBCK; "Piccolo Manuale di Bioetica" written by J.M. de la Croix and so on.
In recent years, the defence of human life from the moment of conception was at the heart of a serious controversy between the Catholic Church and the scientific world. Seoul had funded research on embryos by the cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk, research that was contested by Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk and Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, who defined it as a "serious violation of the dignity of man". The results of Hwang's research were eventually found to be false and the scientist has been charged with scientific fraud.
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