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Calls Buddhists to Work With Christians to Build A Culture of Life

VATICAN, April 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Cardinal Francis Arinze, President of the Pontifical Council For Interreligious Dialogue called Buddhists to join with Christians in building a “culture of life.” In comments marking the Buddhist Feast of Vesakh yesterday, Cardinal Arinze spoke to Buddhists about the commonly held respect for human beings on which “Christians and Buddhists should build a ‘culture of life’, in which the right to life is fully protected from conception until natural death.”

He described our current “culture of death” as one “in which abortion, euthanasia, and genetic experiments on human life itself have already obtained or are on the way to obtaining legal recognition.” And in comments which attracted media attention worldwide he made a link to the terrorist attacks. “How can we not make a correlation between this culture of death in which the most innocent, defenceless, and critically ill human lives are threatened with death, and terrorist attacks, such as those of 11 September, in which thousands of innocent people were slaughtered? We must say that both of these are built on contempt for human life.”

See Cardinal Arinze’s complete address:  https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_ 20020409_vesakh2002_en.html

See also Mother Angelica Calls for Halt to Other Terrorism https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/oct/011001a.html