International pro-life summit in Spain: Faith is not imposed, but it is not hidden

“Faith is not imposed, but it is not hidden.” This is how Jaime Mayor Oreja, promoter of the pro-life and pro-family summit that is being held this Monday in the Senate of Spain under the motto, has responded to the cancellation attempts For freedom and the culture of life.

The former Spanish minister and honorary president of the Political Network for Values (Political Network for Values) (PNfV) has denounced “the unhealthy obsession with Christian foundations, the contempt for science and biology and a perverse manipulation of history” of those who have tried to prevent the holding of this meeting in in which 300 political and civic leaders from 45 countries on three continents participate.

The Senate Board approved holding the summit in its facilities months ago, but in the previous weeks, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, which had supported the event, and pro-abortion groups denounced the meeting and tried to cancel it, without success.

Rodrigo Iván Cortés, vice president of the PNfV and president of the National Front for the Family of Mexico, stated in statements to ACI Prensa that despite the attempts to cancel, “this summit resists, this summit wants to raise its voice and will not allow itself to be canceled.” .

“They tried to do it, but we didn’t let them. “Here we are representatives of more than 40 countries, from three continents, who raise our voices in favor of life, family and freedom.”

Mayor Oreja called to take “a step forward by strengthening the effort, cohesion, projects and lines of action that incorporate thinkers and intellectuals, because this is an essentially intellectual battle.”

They call us fundamentalists because we defend the fundamentals. But it is the opposite, because we defend the regeneration” of the Western world, argued Mayor, who affirmed his conviction of being “at the forefront of the future debate,” which will be characterized by being “between those who believe in nothing and those who want to believe and have permanent references.”

“We do not have to have any fear, despite the fact that the dominant fashion continues to rage,” Mayor said, while proclaiming that “the defense of the right to life is the foundation, the pillar of all our positions within this cultural debate.” ”.

“Let us not lose calm, as they are losing calm with us,” said the leader, before concluding that “from the solidity of our foundations, not from the embrace of extremism, let us know how to fulfill our obligation with the truth: tell the truth.” truth, defend the truth and also sometimes, suffer for the truth.”

For her part, the executive director of the PNfV, Lola Velarde, told ACI Prensa that the participants in the summit have arrived in Spain to “defend the infinite dignity of the human person, from which a culture of life and of course the freedom to be able to defend these values”.

Regarding those who have spoken out against holding this summit, Velarde maintains that their opposition reaffirms that “this summit is more necessary than ever.”

José Antonio Kast: “They hate us because they fear us”

The leader of the Republican Party of Chile, José Antonio Kast, also participated in the introductory panel of the summit.

Kast explained the attempts to cancel, persecute and disqualify this summit, with the words of Chilean politician Jaime Guzmán, murdered by leftist groups: “They hate us because they fear us. And they fear us because they know we are irreducible.”

“They know that we are brave and that we will never give up in defending our values,” he added.

Kast recalled that the first international summit of the PNfV was held 10 years ago, a time in which “this network has been strengthened and expanded with parliamentarians from dozens of countries, opinion leaders, researchers, advisors and members of different governments. ”.

Kast announced that he is leaving the presidency of the PNfV to relaunch his political candidacy to lead his country and he did so in a family way: “The time has come for me and my family to face a tremendous challenge which is to go for the presidency of our country and We do it as a family. That’s what fills you with pride.”

Abortion protests while celebrating Mass

Before the start of the summit work in the Senate, the Apostolic Nuncio in Spain, Mons. Bernardito Auza, officiated at a Eucharist in the Monastery of La Encarnación, close to the Upper House, at whose doors a small group of abortionists came.

During the celebration of the Mass, concelebrated by Bishop Joseph Mbatia, Bishop of Nyahururu, representing the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Kenya, the dozen protesters chanted slogans such as “get rid of the rosaries from our ovaries” and “we give birth, we “We decided.”

They also carried banners with slogans such as “anti-election out of the Senate and out of our wombs.”

Those attending the Mass were forced, for security reasons, to leave through a side door away from the protesters, whose movements were monitored by the National Police at all times.

Bishop Aúza stressed that human dignity, as set forth in Infinite dignityis the “principle and fundamental basis of our culture”, without whose recognition “it would not be possible to live in society”.

The prelate explained that this dignity exists “beyond all circumstances” and must be defended “in every cultural context” and, after thanking the participants in the summit for their work, he encouraged them to “educate the conscience of many to recognize the centrality of human dignity.”