JOHN SMEATON, DIRECTOR OF SPUC: Want to donate to The Philippines? Consider Caritas Manila

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Want to donate to The Philippines? Consider Caritas Manila

Caritas Manila protests vs population control

SPUC has received enquiries in recent days from pro-lifers wanting to donate to help the people of The Philippines following the typhoon there. Readers may consider supporting Caritas Manila - donation details can be found at: http://www.caritas.org.ph/Call-To-Action/about.html
Please note that the donation process uses amounts in Philippines pesos (PhP), so you may wish to check the exchange rate/use a currency-converter to know what your donation will be in British pounds.

Unfortunately many of the member-charities of the popular Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) provide and/or and promote abortion and/or contraception etc.

British Red Cross - which works to promote so-called "sexual and reproductive health" in crisis-hit countries, including provision of and advice about contraception. "Sexual and reproductive health" and similar words are used commonly as either technical terms or as euphemisms for abortion on demand
Christian Aid - which promotes contraception in the developing world
Concern Worldwide - which also promotes so-called "reproductive health" including condom use
Islamic Relief - which has an agreement with the anti-life/anti-family United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to promote so-called "reproductive health"
Merlin - which has supported the Reproductive Health bill, designed to impose population control on The Philippines
Oxfam - which has a long history of support for abortion (see my 1 March 2009 blogpost re Comic Relief)
Plan UK - which "support[s] quality sexual and reproductive health education and services"
Save the Children - which promotes contraception as an answer to poverty in the developing world
Tearfund - whose "partners at the local level" are left to make "decisions about which contraceptive methods are promoted" (letter to SPUC, March 2011)
World Vision - which signed a "Manifesto for Motherhood" which called on the UK Government to advocate so-called "sexual and reproductive health and rights" in other countries, including access to 'safe' abortions. World Vision may also have other links to the provision of abortifacients.

In contrast, Caritas Manila has a webpage from its chairman, Cardinal Luis Tagle, lamenting the passage of the population control bill through the national legislature - see the photo above of Caritas Manila supporters protesting against the Reproductive Health bill.

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About Me

I became involved in SPUC after graduating, when I established a branch in south London in 1974. I have worked full-time for SPUC for 42 years. I became chief executive of SPUC in the UK in 1996, having been general secretary since 1978. I was elected vice-president of International Right to Life Federation in 2005. At UN conferences in Cairo, Copenhagen, Beijing, Istanbul and Rome, I helped coordinate more than 150 pro-life/pro-family groups resulting in pro-life victories in Cairo, Istanbul and Rome. I was educated at Salesian College, London, before going to Oxford where I graduated in English Language and Literature. I qualified as a teacher, becoming head of English at a secondary school. I am married to Josephine. We have a grown-up family and we live in north London.