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Vatican’s Message For World AIDS Day Condemns ‘Pansexual Cultur’

In a message for World AIDS Day, the Vatican has condemned a culture of sex that is encouraging the AIDS epidemic and asserted that the best way to prevent the spread // of the AIDS virus was keeping sexual activity restricted to marriage and intensifying the strength of the family. ....World AIDS Day, the international day of action on HIV and AIDS, is commemorated around the globe on the 1st...

Vatican's Council Reviews Condom Usage

Pope Benedict XVI requested the Vatican’s council to study and report on the subject of using condoms top tackle AIDS. Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan,// a senior Roman Catholic official said that the Vatican will soon publish a report based on this issue. But still it says that it is better to refrain from sex which is one the efficient way to tackle HIV/Aids. Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, who w...

Vatican Vacillates on the Condom Ban

Rome: Church officials have communicated Pope Benedict XVI’s intention of soliciting a report on the acceptability of Catholics to draw on the benefits of condom use //in exceptional cases, such as, in the event of either partner being infected with H.I.V, with a view to protect life within the precincts of marriage. ....Experts have commended the efforts of the church to have addressed a sensiti...

Catholics Should Halt Amnesty Support Over Abortion Issue: Vatican

The Vatican on Wednesday said it was suspending all financial aid to Amnesty International and called on all Catholics to stop supporting the human rights group, accusing it of promoting abortion. "No more Catholic financing of Amnesty International after the organisation's pro-abortion about-turn," said a statement from the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. ......The council'...