“It is not within the competence of the United Nations to re-define this institution, which is hallowed in Christianity and Islam.”
Those who oppose the mandate of the United Nations Cairo Conference on Population and Development have gained a powerful ally.
Until recently, the Vatican and several South American and Africana countries have stood alone in expressing any criticism of the anti-family goals of the conference.
However, in June a new and influential member came aboard when representatives from Muslim organizations expressed similar opposition to the Cairo agenda.
At a June 8 meeting with Vatican officials, three of the major world Muslim groups “agreed that specific points in the (preparation) document were unacceptable to believing Muslims and Christians.”
The Cairo conference aims to severely limit third-world population through birth control, sterilization and world-wide abortion on demand. It also seeks to change the definition of the family to include homosexual and lesbian couples.
“The family, a stable union in marriage of husband and wife, together with children, is the basic unit of society,” the Muslim leaders commented. “It is not within the competence of the United Nations to re-define this institution, which is hallowed in Christianity and Islam.”
Concerning the UN push to legalize abortions everywhere the leaders flatly stated that “governments should exert no subtle or overt pressure on couples or individuals to have abortions or sterilizations. Abortion is a serious evil.”
Fr. Alphonse de Valk, editor of Catholic Insight, notes that although the meeting of the world’s two largest religions may not block the UN mandate, it is a breakthrough in terms of co-operation.
“It’s a good start. The Muslim organizations have finally realized that the two faiths share similar morals and that the best way of achieving these morals on a world-wide level is by working together.”
