The historic city of Cusco will be the headquarters of the VI Latin American Congress of the Billings Ovulation Method, from August 7 to 10, 2025.
The event, organized by Ceprofarena Vida and Family with Woom Latin America has as its motto “Listen and know your body.”
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In statements to ACI Press, Yanina Díaz, instructor of the Ovulation Method Billings in Ceprofarena Life and Family, explained that “the objective of Congress is to strengthen and disseminate the teachings and benefits of the Billings Ovulation method (MOB).”
“In this edition, we seek to bring this experience closer to a much broader audience. In the case of women, provide an opportunity for training in their body’s knowledge and recognition of their fertility, at the same time to live and strengthen their conjugal relationship,” he said.
For the instructors, he continued, we seek to “update and deepen their knowledge about the method. In the case of health professionals, train them in handling fertility problems with the help of MOB.”
In addition, teachers and catechists who participate will be announced “to know the method as a fundamental tool in the integral education of sexuality and affectivity in adolescents and young people.”
Díaz said that the motto of Congress seeks to “highlight that the human being, and therefore the woman, a creature made to ‘image and likeness of God’, already has in his body the tools to fully live his love and fertility.”
“Through the Billings method, you not only learn to identify the fertile and infertile days, but a relationship of respect, awareness and love with the body itself that leads us to value as sons and loved ones of God. Because it is only loving oneself that you can love others and thus love life.”
Help couples “without the need for invasive procedures”
Díaz highlighted the commitment that health professionals have with “the respect and defense of life and the person, which is often violated with the technologies that are being developed in the field of assisted conception and embryonic manipulation.”
“Therefore, they need to know how the Billings ovulation method can help many couples without the need for invasive procedures,” he said.
In the case of Catholic priests, he said, they are the ones who “receive women and marriages with contraception problems in the confessional and need to be prepared to be able to provide them with an orientation according to the church doctrine.”
“Teachers and catechists have a fundamental role in the training and orientation of young people and adolescents in relation to their affectivity and sexuality, having in the Billings ovulation method a tool to awaken in them greater respect, conscience and love with the body itself,” he added.
A method that improves the relationship and strengthens couple communication
Yanina Díaz stressed that, “unlike contraceptive methods in which responsibility falls only to one of the spouses (generally the woman) with various side effects and closing the doors to life, with the Billings ovulation method, the spouses learn to know and value their fertility, improve their relationship, strengthen their communication.”
In this way, he said, both “respond to the call and commitment they made before God at the time of their marriage, receiving with love the children that God gives them and refraining from their privacy in the periods of fertility when there are important reasons for it.”
For more information and registration, you can enter the website www.ceprofarenavidayfamilia.org or write to Congress.billings@gmail.com.
David Ramos
Graduate in Communication Sciences by the Private University of the North in Trujillo, Peru. With more than 12 years of experience in Catholic journalism working in ACI Press, I am based in Mexico since 2018. I have covered the trips of Pope Francis to Ecuador, Paraguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Panama.