From: Ouko joachim omolo
The News Dispatch with Omolo Beste
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2013

One of you has reacted angrily on my yesterday’s article where LifeSiteNews.com revealed how U.S. Bishops’ foreign relief agency is funding a leading abortion-marketing firm where Catholic Relief Services is distributing a two-year $2.7 million grant to Population Services International (PSI), which networks and trains local providers throughout the developing world to offer “safe abortion.”

Millicent (not her real name) writes: “Fr Omolo to tell you very sincerely I am very disgusted and confused after reading your article on US Bishops funding a leading abortion-marketing firm. Surely Father where is the world heading? Abortion is wrong period! I am just a young girl who is trying to keep Catholic faith but if bishops are behaving this way then better do away with Catholic faith”.

I do not think you should give up your faith because bishops have funded abortion firm. Your faith is entirely based on your God not bishops, not even Pope. They are all human beings like you and can make mistake. I do agree with you totally that abortion is wrong because it kills.

Furthermore you are not the only one who has reacted angrily about the issue. Pro-life leaders have also expressed outrage after LifeSiteNews.com revealed Thursday that the U.S. Bishops’ foreign relief agency is funding a leading abortion-marketing firm.

Catholic Relief Services is distributing a two-year $2.7 million grant to Population Services International (PSI), which networks and trains local providers throughout the developing world to offer “safe abortion.”

President of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), Austin Ruse has not only reacted angrily, he wants somebody to get fired over this. He is wondering how groups like PSI is funded by our own Catholic church. “It’s disgusting and for one I am bone-weary of these types of revelations. Heads should roll”, Ruse suggests.

Fr. Shenan Boquet, president of Human Life International has also reacted, saying he finds it “incomprehensible” that an organization like PSI was deemed worthy of Catholic funds.

PSI’s “primary mission has always been to promote contraception, abortifacient drugs, condoms, and even surgical abortion,” he said. “Like many other population control groups in the mid-1990s, they started to rebrand their mission as being about ‘health’, using more positive language and adding malaria-prevention programs to their portfolio. But this should not confuse anyone as to their purpose.”

Judie Brown, president of American Life League while reacting on the revelation said the news was “not surprising.” “Catholic Relief Services has historically been advocates, although not publicly – behind the scenes – advocates of population control in the Third World,” she charged.

Brown’s point was echoed by Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, who said CRS implicates itself in population control by the very fact that it receives over two thirds of its funding from USAID.

“CRS knows very well what the principal purpose of USAID is. And it tries to, in various ways, to massage that purpose, and avoid being implicated in the purpose of population control,” he said.

“As far as I’m concerned, they know who’s paying their salaries, and that’s why the money goes to CARE, that’s why the money goes to PSI, that’s why the money goes back and forth to other population control agencies, because that’s what their masters in the federal government demand of them.”

“This is not an agency of the institutional Catholic Church. This is a separate aid agency, which, because it receives two thirds of its funding from the U.S. government, is Catholic in name only,” he added. “No man can serve two masters.”

As LifeSiteNews reported Thursday, PSI’s “reproductive health” agenda is heavily abortion-focused. On its own webpage, the firm explains that it “works to increase access to WHO-approved medical abortion drugs,” and mentions its provision of medical abortions in Cambodia and Nepal.

At a “maternal health” conference in Tanzania on January 16, 2013, a PSI employee delivered a talk titled “Creating the misoprostol market”. (See video here.)

Numerous job ads are accessible online showing PSI seeking to fill various roles in its campaign for globally-accessible abortion. Among them is one seeking a candidate with “clinical proficiency [in] surgical and medication abortion.” For more evidence of PSI’s work in the abortion industry view Thursday’s LSN report.

The good news is that despite all these Americans have not lost their faith in God. According to a new Pew Forum poll 48 percent of Americans say a decline of religion is bad for American society.

Over the past two decades, the number of Americans who mark their religious preference as “none” has undoubtedly grown. Only 8 percent checked that box in 1990. As of May of this past year, 20 percent of all Americans identified themselves as having no religion.

Despite an increase in these “nones,” the majority of Americans are still religious. Over 90 percent of Americans believe in God or a higher power, and almost 40 percent attend religious services weekly.

Even among those who claim no particular religious affiliation in an earlier Pew Forum survey, roughly 80 percent still believe in God or a universal spirit, and a majority describe themselves as “religious” or “spiritual.” According to a recent survey by researchers at Baylor University, most of those who say they have “no religion” also pray.

Fr Joachim Omolo Ouko, AJ
Tel +254 7350 14559/+254 722 623 578
E-mail omolo.ouko@gmail.com
Facebook-omolo beste
Twitter-@8000accomole

Real change must come from ordinary people who refuse to be taken hostage by the weapons of politicians in the face of inequality, racism and oppression, but march together towards a clear and unambiguous goal.
-Anne Montgomery, RSCJ UN Disarmament Conference, 2002

“Creating the misoprostol market”. (See video here.)
http://maternalhealthtaskforce.org/images/GMHC2013_program_web.pdf

Thursday’s LSN report.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/u.s.-bishops-relief-agency-caught-giving-2.7-million-to-top-abortion-market

48 percent
http://www.pewforum.org/growth-of-the-nonreligious-many-say-trend-is-bad-for-american-society.aspx

most of those who say they have “no religion” also pray.
http://www.baylorisr.org/2013/07/wall-street-journal-the-myth-of-unreligious-america-by-rodney-stark/