pro-life bishop of miri

MIRI: The Roman Catholic Bishop of Miri the Right Reverend Anthony Lee received a surprise anniversary celebration as the bishop of Miri for 32 years during a break of the 16th Human Life International Asia Pacific Congress on Faith, Life & Family.

“This is the biggest anniversary celebration I ever had,” said Lee before more than 600 participants from 17 countries taking part in the congress organised by the Human Life Services Centre.

“And the smallest cake, ” he said in jest making the participants broke out in laughter.

“Not only is the cake the smallest but it's chocolate and I hate chocolate, but I must still swallow this bitter pill which is symbolic,” he added.

Not only much revered but much loved by the catholics in the Miri diocese, Lee was instrumental in promoting the pro-life movement in Miri with the setting up of the Human Life Services Centre.

He travelled even to the rural areas spreading the message of the gospel of life as he began to see in his struggle as an pro-life activist the evil of the culture of death spread through the promotion of abortion and contraception. ENDS.


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Caption: 32 YEARS OF PROMOTING PRO-LIFE: Bishop Lee cutting the anniversary cake with several bishops, priests and nuns sharing the happy occasion.

unfair treatment to native passengers

MIRI: Five rural natives travelling by air from Long Banga were unceremoniously dumped at Marudi on their way to Miri recently.

Stranded at Marudi airport they happened to meet lawyer Robert Ayu who coincidentally was waiting for his flight to Miri. They approached Ayu and requested that their plight be highlighted in the media.

According to Ayu, the five stranded passengers were on board Maswing MH3591 together with nine other passengers from Long Banga to Miri at 11:20 am transit Marudi.

“They had paid the full fare of RM88 to Miri in Long Banga but on arrival at Marudi they were arbitrarily off-loaded to give way for passengers from Marudi to Miri,” said Robert.

They were asked to wait for the last flight on waiting list. There was no valid reason given by the agent at Marudi airport except to say system breakdown.

What annoyed the passengers was that the agent refused their request to be put on board the flight despite the fact that they told they had urgent matters to attend in Miri.

One passenger, Jessy Keling who received the news of the death of her uncle in Miri through the radio flew down from Long Banga, told the agent she had to be in Miri that day for her relatives were waiting for her arrival in order to proceed with the burial of her uncle.

In spite of this explanation, the agent refused to put her on the flight.

“My relatives had to put off the burial to the next day to wait for my arrival if I can get a flight the next day,” she lamented in tears to Robert.

Another passenger Lucia Lerang was catching a connecting flight to Kuala Lumpur at 6pm that day was questioning, why pick on us, is it because we are poor? Why not ask the Marudi passengers to wait for the last flight instead of us?

Susan Udau, another passenger pointed out that they should be put on the next available flight instead of the last flight because they don't have relatives in Marudi. What if there is no seat available on the last flight, where will we stay for the night in Marudi?

According to Robert, this act of off-loading rural passengers in Marudi to give way for passengers in Marudi had been going for quite a while because it is not computerised at the departure point in the rural area like in Long Banga. ENDS.

Caption: UNFAIR TREATMENT: From left, Jessy, Susan and two unidentified friends waiting and waiting.

natural method of family planning

MIRI: The president of Ovulation Method, Research & Reference Centre Australia, Kerry Bourke urged couples to adopt the Billings ovulation method because it is the most effective and yet inexpensive method of family planning.

"I urge couples everywhere to give it a go for this method works and it is the natural method of family planning without any side effect compared to most artificial form of family planning, including the pill and even using the condom," said Bourke.

She told this to reporters during a press conference yesterday. She was here to conduct a workshop on the method for about 50 participants.

She was currently in Miri to speak at the 16th Human Life International Asia Pacific Congress, organised by the Human Life Centre Miri.

She said the method is proven to be 99 per cent effective when taught properly because a lot of scientific research had been done on the method by John Billings.

She disclosed in China where this method of family planning was implemented by the government statistics showed a dramatic decrease in abortion rate in the country. She said this is the natural side effect of using this method.

Inspite of the effectiveness of this method, Bourke bemoaned the fact that most women are not aware of this option that they have in family planning.

"Women everywhere have the right to this knowledge and that they have the right to a choice," said Bourke.

She stressed women can easily use this method as it is simple and basic.

All they have to do is to keep track of their ovulation cycle, it is about knowing their bodily cycle of fertility and infertility, said pointed out.

There are many advantages for not only women, couples and families, but also the state for women to have this information, she added.

"This knowledge about natural fertility and infertility is very inexpensive to acquire, and can be put into practical use right throughout a couple’s reproductive life, " said Bourke.

"It can be used to achieve a pregnancy, to space pregnancies and can also be used to alert a woman to the state of her reproductive health, "she added.

Once a woman understands what is normal for her during her menstrual cycles, she is then aware of the early signs of any abnormality. She can then seek appropriate medical care, she explained.

“I know of one woman who undoubtedly saved her life because she knew the Billings Ovulation Method and identified a change in her normal fertile patterns and was able to have early diagnosis and successful treatment for cervical cancer,” Bourke said. ENDS.

human life international congress

MIRI: The multi-billionaire dollar abortion industry is humanity's ultimate killing machine- every year an estimated 50 million babies were put to death globally just through surgical abortion.

“A rough estimate of 250 million babies die annually through chemical abortion,” said the president of Human Life International Father Thomas Euteneuer.

He to this to reporters during a press conference prior to the 16th Human Life International Asia Pacific Congress on Faith, Life & Family yesterday.

Also present were the bishop of Miri, Bishop Anthony Lee, the executive director of HLI Asia Oceania Dr Ligaya Acosta, the director of Research and Training for HLI Dr Brian Clowes, the president of the Ovulation Method Research & Reference Centre Australia Kerry Bourke and the political secretary to the chief minister Robert Laing Anyie.

Abortion has been described by some writers and scholars as the “silent holocaust” because its victims are helpless against this killing machine made by man himself.

“This is a global attack on Life, Marriage and Family and we in the pro-life movement describes this sinister assault on the sanctity of life as the culture of death. By definition, the culture of death is when a society legalises abortion, the acceptance of the killing of babies in the womb. Roughly, two-thirds of the world's population are living under this culture of death, where abortion is practise on demand. And this culture is fast spreading around the world. Basically, this culture of death western culture. America essentially export abortion,” said Tom, an American himself.

“We are fighting against this culture of death that is corrupting everything it touches with the message of the culture of life. We got to tell people to have respect for life,” he added.

Euteneuer said this culture first started in communist Russia where the communist government legalised abortion in the 1920s. By 1955, Russia imposed this culture on the whole communist bloc and in the 1960s and early 1970s it has the domino effect on Europe.

There are a few countries that prohibit abortion, countries in Africa, Latin America. For example, El Salvador and Chile gives legal protection against abortion, disclosed Euteneuer.

Meanwhile, in his keynote address to more than 600 participants from 17 countries in the congress, Lee said the whole idea of contraception and abortion spread widely even among the christians.

“We have a battle at hand-a life and death battle. You cannot live an ordinary life with dignity today without upholding the sanctity and sacredness of life. You cannot look at the whole situation with folded arms and do nothing because things are happening right under our nose,” said Lee.

“Contempary society taught us that life begins at birth. In our pro-life activity we saw that this is entirely false. Life begins at conception and ends at natural death. The embryo in the mother's womb was just a lump of tissues, they say, it is not yet a human person until the soul is created. When is the soul created? At conception, we say. From the moment the embryo is formed, the soul is infused. As soon as the father's sperm penetrates the mother's egg a new human being is born. Science confirms this: the DNA of the father unites with the DNA of the mother to produce a new, different, distinctive DNA, having similar qualities with the parents' DNA but nevertheless a unique personal DNA, not found elsewhere, it cannot be repeated, replaced or substituted, ” he added. ENDS.

Caption: FOR LIFE: Lee beating the gong to officiate the congress as other dignitaries cheer on.

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