Thursday, August 29, 2013

Institute to storm Enugu streets with anti-same sex marriage, abortion campaigns

Institute to storm Enugu streets with anti-same sex marriage, abortion campaigns

By  on August 19, 2013

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In keeping with its vision, the International Bio-Research Institute, Enugu is to hold a 2-day international seminar and street march on life challenging societal vices.
The programme will focus on issues such as kidnapping, same-sex marriage, child and mother trafficking, mercy killing, among others.
The event, which holds August 29 and 30, 2013, will take place at the Odumegwu Ojukwu Auditorium of the Institute, at Ugwuogo-Nike, Enugu state.
The event, with the theme “Family and the Beginning of Life Issues in Africa” is being organised by the Institute in collaboration with Steadfast Onlus Foundation, Italy.
The climax of the event will be a street march on the 30th of August, 2013.
According to the organizers, the march termed “March for Life Nigeria”, which would commence at the Independence Layout Enugu, would terminate at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu.
Briefing journalists on the programme, the facilitator of the International Bio-Research Institute, Ugwogo-Nike, Enugu state, Professor Edmund Agbo, disclosed that muslims, christians and non christians were expected to attend the event.
He condemned abortion and disclosed that the right to live belonged to the child.
According to him, a woman is only a custodian of the born and unborn child.
Professor Agbo stated that the International Bio-Research Institute, Ugwogo-Nike was into research in all its ramifications.
According to him, the institution also teaches herbal medicine and its science and technology, adding that the institution was committed to training people that would be in a vantage position to teach others tomorrow.
He used the opportunity to condemn child marriage, saying that any law that encourages the marriage was not a good law.
“A law that approves child marriage is a law of death and not a law of life; it is sacrilegious”, he averred.
The university don further maintained that life starts from fertilization, adding that during the forth-coming event, people would be re-sensitized on the need to stop abortion
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MARCH FOR LIFE”


MARCH FOR LIFE” IN BRIEF
   With the hyper-growth in the technological achievements, globalization, communication, etc. of the twenty first  century, it may sound sad to say that the world has continued to drift away from the anthropocentric goals of  such developments to the side of anti-anthropocentric ideologies. This has continued to degenerate our society  today to an unprecedented manner whereby the prevailing cultures are against the promotion and propagation of  humanity, propelling the culture of death.

   In our present society, so many issues contrary to the ultimate good and moral integrity of the human person have taken the lead in our cultural values today. Abortion no longer seems to be a problem in so many countries in the world today and have been legalized in some countries. Same sex marriage is very common in the western culture and is now extending its roots to the African society. Not only has same sex marriage been accepted, rather the couples have been allowed to freely adopt children. Artificial reproduction is highly promoted as a means to resolve problems of infertility to the expense of so many fertilized zygotes which are potential persons. Also, due to the advancement of artificial reproduction, the less privilege are contracted as surrogate parents to carry someone’s child for money. Female genital mutilation is still practiced in some cultures to prepare ladies for marriage.
   Other social vices like instant kidnapping of children and adults for money and rituals, children and women trafficking, extra-judiciary killings, bloodshed armed robbery, to name but a few, have become part of our normal life-style and probably, part of the prevailing cultures. So many of these problems continue to emerge and are passed from one generation to another. To circumvent these problems and make the world a better place, there is need for those who are against these prevailing cultures, those who preach against the culture of death, and the need to call the attention of the public to these problems, their impacts to the society and the way forward. Pro-lifers; those who dedicate themselves to sincerely and actively promote and perpetuate life have always used different means to communicate with the public to inform the uninformed, form the unformed, reform the deformed, and to make a positive change in our societies. One of such ways have been through a peaceful march with banners, posters, boards carrying slogans of the different intriguing issues of our contemporary society as a means to portray their concern against these social challenges.

   This peaceful march called “March for Life” is an activity that is done almost in most western countries yearly to protest against the anti-anthropocentric ideologies in the world that propagates the culture of death. In the world today, different pro-life organizations in different countries have organized march for life with tremendous success. The annual march for life against abortion in Washington, D.C of the United States of America has witnessed the participation of some prominent figures such as President George W. Bush, Alveda King (niece of Martin Luther King Jr.), Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama and others as notable speakers. In Paris France, the yearly march for life on abortion attracts delegations from many European countries, notably Italy, Spain, Belgium, the UK, Poland, Switzerland, Germany and Ireland. In Italy, the yearly march for life called marchia per la vita organized by the Catholic Church starting with a rally from Colloseo (the ancients of Rome) to the Saint Peter’s square of the Vatican city, Rome is witnessed by the full participation of the Pope, dignitaries, associations and groups from all works of life and different parts of the world. 
   We of the International Bio-Research Institute, Ugwogo-Nike, Nigeria as Pro-lifers, an institute that promotes bioethics and whose main objective is to counteract the prevailing culture of death and promote life intends to extend this culture of march for life to Africa, precisely in Enugu, Nigeria.
   Our objective for this march is to expose all the challenging issues of our present society which are controversial to the promotion of life, their consequences to the society and the way forward to overcome them to the Nigerian people and the world at large.
Programme for the march
   Please save the dates of August 2013 (Thursday and Friday) at 09.00am on the Event of the March For life, the first of its kind in Nigeria. Participation is free for everyone. The event will start with a conference on very relevant issues bordering the promotion of life in our society. Hence,
August 29th Conference on Bioethics
Theme: Unveiling the Bioethical questions that militates the sacredness of human life in Nigeria
Venue: The Conference Hall, International Bio-Research Institute, Ugwogo-Nike, Enugu  
August 30th March for Life (Theme)
 
About the organizers
The March is organized by the International Bio-Research Institute, Ugwogo-Nike, Enugu in collaboration with the Steadfast Foundation Italia ONLUS.
1.    The International Bio-Research Institute (www.ibi.edu.ng/www.ibiportal-ng.com) is a private Institution of Catholic inspiration that presently offers National Diploma (ND) Courses and Master’s Degree (M.Sc/MA) Programmes approved by the Federal Ministry of Education. Its primary aims are to encourage Research and Studies on the life and survival of man using an interdisciplinary approach and to promote the culture of life, among others.
2.    The Steadfast Foundation Italia ONLUS (www.steadfastfoundation.org) is a lay and multicultural non-governmental organization based in Rome-Italy with the objective of promoting and defending the culture and the development of countries in constant economic instability in order to assure them a sustainable development of their local culture and economy.


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