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Seoul (Fides Service) - On 27 August South Korea’s national Pro-Life Movement will launch a new pro-life campaign srarting with a Day to increase awareness on questions connected with bio-ethics, assisted fertility treatment and scientific research using human embryos. For the occasion Suwon diocese is organising a charity concert to honour the work of Bishop Angelo Kim Nan-su who devoted his life to preaching the Gospel of Life and increasing awareness with regard to the value of human life. A Foundation named after the Bishop continues to promote respect for life from conception to natural end..
The proceedings of the concert performed by musicians and singers of national fame will go to support various pro-life actitivities. For example parishes will be asked to distribute printed and audio-visual information explaining the anthropological reasons for the Catholic view point. Funds collected will also go to help families with three or more children because, as the Korean Pro-Life Movement recalls in the dominant culture of today large families are penalised.
Recently through their Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Commission for Bio-Ethics, the Catholic Bishops of Korea clarified and defended the position of the Catholic Church also in view of experiments on human carried out by a Korean scientist: “Dr Hwang’s research - the text reads - is a manipulation of human life, it offends the dignity of the human person by treating the embryo as an object of research and experiment”.”.
After these scientific remarks the Bishops encourage the faithful at the pastoral level to actively promote a culture of life in society.
(PA) (Agenzia Fides 29/07/2005 Righe: 26 Parole: 278)
