“Petition pro ecclesia”

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More than 14.Representatives of the "Petition Pro Ecclesia" initiative presented the German Bishops' Conference in Paderborn with 000 signatures. In their petition, they appeal to the German bishops to, among other things, preserve compulsory celibacy.

In addition, according to the petition, bishops should ensure a dignified celebration of the liturgy and defend traditional beliefs and the Christian image of marriage and the family.

Reaction to a reform paper by professors of theology
The initiative had formed in response to a reform paper by now 300 Catholic theology professors who demanded, among other things, an abolition of compulsory celibacy, greater participation of the laity in church decisions, an improved church legal culture and more respect for personal life decisions. People who lived love and faithfulness in same-sex partnerships or as remarried divorcees should not be excluded from the sacraments.

In their "Petition Pro Ecclesia", the signatories criticize the theologians who have done great damage to the Church and have deceived and unsettled the faithful. Bishops should ensure that research and teaching at theological faculties and institutes "is done in accordance with the teaching of the Church". At the same time, they want to "clearly and audibly stand with our bishops and express our unity with the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI"., profess".

P. Langendorfer: open doors are being knocked down
The Secretary of the German Bishops' Conference, Father Hans Langendorfer, accepted the signatures and thanked them on behalf of the bishops. The petition shows the sincere attachment of the signatories to the Church, he said. With many of their demands, they would have opened doors for the bishops.

With an action tour through German cities, the network ECPAT wants to collect signatures for a petition against sex trafficking of children and adolescents. After the prelude in Cologne and Aachen, the signature campaign, for which youth groups of church congregations, for example, are involved, will be continued in Bonn on Saturday.

"With the petition, we are calling on the federal government and states to provide child-friendly support to victims of child trafficking while establishing a national reporting system," said Mechthild Mauerer, ECPAT executive director. Next year, all signatures collected will be handed over to the United Nations.With the petition ECPAT also wants to achieve improvements in the fight against sexual exploitation of minors through a targeted qualification of police officers and staff of youth and immigration authorities. On the campaign tour through eleven cities, which will last until the end of the month and will lead to Hanover, Hamburg, Berlin and Marburg, among others, German youths with yellow T-shirts and with large "NoNo hands" will advertise in city centers and pedestrian zones for better protection of their peers at home and abroad, as ECPAT explained. They are part of a worldwide campaign against sexual exploitation and human trafficking in 66 countries around the world. missio and carol singers are dab "According to UN reports, human trafficking is the third largest and fastest growing criminal trade in the world today," said Alexander Borwitzky of the cosmetics company The Body Shop, action partner of ECPAT. Many millions of children would be exploited in global commercial sex trade each year.Founded in 2001, ECPAT Germany is supported by 29 independent organizations. These include the Campaign against Child Prostitution – Working Group in the Protestant Church of Westphalia, the Ecumenical Initiative of the Campaign against Child Prostitution in Hagen, the Catholic relief organizations missio and Sternsinger and the Wuppertal-based international church association Vereinte Evangelische Mission. The goal is to combat the sexual exploitation of children in prostitution, pornography and child trafficking.

The International Red Cross has announced a five-year program to fight and prevent AIDS. The focus of the measures is on sub-Saharan Africa, the International Red Cross Federation said at the World AIDS Conference in Toronto.

The International Red Cross has announced a five-year program to fight and prevent AIDS. Focus on sub-Saharan Africa, International Red Cross Federation says at World AIDS Conference in Toronto. "With more than 11 million people living with HIV, including 500.000 children, southern Africa is the epicenter of the epidemic," stressed Francoise Le Goff as head of the Red Cross in Zimbabwe. States such as Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe should be reached through local Red Cross and Crescent societies.

Still enormous stigmatization of the sick The aid organization did not give any details on the financial scope of the programs, which should start in the coming weeks. But by 2011, 250 would be.000 children to benefit from the measures. In addition to prevention and education work, the organization wants to focus on outpatient therapies and care for the sick at home. In this regard, patients could benefit from already existing structures of the national Red Cross organizations. In addition, the actions wanted to make a contribution to reduce stigmatization and exclusions of ill people. Special attention also paid to vulnerable populations such as prostitutes, he said.Scientists, AIDS activists and church representatives urge greater efforts to fight AIDS. "We will not succeed in providing access to HIV prevention and treatment for all unless there is a global commitment to align policies and anti-AIDS programs with the rights of groups most affected by HIV," said International AIDS Society President Helen Gayle. Poverty, gender inequity and stigma against the sick are still huge obstacles in the fight against HIV, they said.

Religious roadmap against HIV Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Toronto experts to review whether governments were living up to commitments made at previous conferences.This includes ending human rights abuses such as discrimination against women, drug addicts or homosexuals, he said. "To win against AIDS, we need more than official declarations at summits," said Joe Amon, responsible for the AIDS program at HRW.The AIDS representative at Caritas Internationalis, Robert Vitillo, called on the various religions and denominations to work together. He said it was time to coordinate individual actions and develop a common roadmap. However, the president of the Lutheran World Federation, Bishop Mark Hanson, pointed to major differences between religions in dealing with AIDS. "Cooperation is very difficult because we tend to distrust each other's faith and religious practices," the bishop said. Common ground and tolerance can only be achieved by listening to each other, he said.(CBA)

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