President of the Mexican Episcopate encourages to participate in 40 days for life

The Bishop of Cuernavaca and president of the Mexican Episcopate Conference (CEM), Mons. Ramón Castro Castro, encouraged to join the new edition of the fast and prayer campaign 40 days for lifefrom September 24 to November 2.

In a video shared message on social networks, Mons. Castro Castro said that “defending and praying for life is not an ideology, but a human reality that involves all Christians, that is, each of us baptized.”

“We hug our lives, pray for pregnant women, by children who are growing in the maternal belly. That prayer can help so much,” he said. “That prayer can be so fruitful, that prayer is necessary, encouragement!”

More than a decade of 40 days for life in Mexico

Once in the United States in 2007, the fast and prayer campaign 40 days for life arrived in Mexico in 2014 by María Lourdes Varela, which today is its director for Latin America. There were then seven years that abortion was decriminalized until 12 weeks gestation in Mexico City.

In statements for ACI Prensa, Varela denounced that abortion “is a genocide that is ending entire nations and we obviously cannot remain silent.”

Every year, according to figures widespread By the World Health Organization, about 73 million abortions are held worldwide.

The 40 -day campaign for life, Varela explained, emerged in Texas (United States) by asking “God what to do” in the face of abortion drama, to reflect after they could dedicate 40 days, “a biblical period of transformation”, to “prayer and fasting, because only the demons come out.”

What they do, he said, is “prayer and fasting, peaceful vigils of community scope.” “Our campaigns are always visible in front of abortion centers, because that is where crime occurs and it is super important to testify, today more than ever, not being indifferent or say nothing here.”

When aborting, he said, “the woman is permanently injured and for healing would only be possible through the mercy of God, of that encounter with Christ.” “By praying publicly,” Varela continued, “we invite each person to meet Christ, find their merciful face and thus be able to give light in places of darkness.”

Since the project arrived in Mexico, he received the support of Mons. Castro Castro, who was already a bishop of Cuernavaca.

“He was the first to give all his support for 40 days for life for 11 years and since then he has been supporting us campaign after campaign,” said Varela, both “with videos, with prayer, with reflections, with inviting priests, with inviting the laity, with everything.”

Defend life “is something urgent”

For the director for Iberoamerica of 40 days for life, defending life from conception “it is something urgent that we all have to do and not see it as alien (…) It is not about imposing, it is about saving, there is someone who is being killed.”

40 days for life, he said, it is done “through prayer and fasting in peaceful vigil in front of abortion centers, or in public places, to testify to the crime, but also to be an alternative of life for all those people who want to abort or who think that abortion is the solution to which they are happening”.

In this edition of the provida campaign cities in North America, Central America and South America, as well as Portugal and Spain, among many other locations around the world.

For more information about 40 days for life and the closest campaign where you live you can enter your official website https://www.40daysforlife.com/es.