PRO-LIFE PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION, INC. invites all to attend the Pro-Life Seminar Series for August titled WHEN YOUR LOVED ONE TELLS YOU “I’M GAY”

This talk deems to answer questions related to families confronted with the homosexual issue most popular today. With the proliferation of the homosexual culture in mass media, our young people are increasingly exposed to a stronger promotion of this so-called “alternative lifestyle.” How does the family handle this growing situation?  What should be the attitude of parents and siblings and well-meaning friends when their loved one/s reveals their tendency towards same-sex attractions (SSA)?

This seminar also aims at helping the homosexual person understand the roots of his/her SSA, and hopefully be able to influence him/her to embrace a path of chastity and change.

Mr. Rolando Delos Reyes II of Courage Philippines will be facilitating the talk. An open forum comes after each of the speaker’s discussion.

The seminar is slated on a Saturday, August 21, 2010 from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the Pro-Life Philippines Foundation Office located at  San Lorenzo Ruiz Student Catholic Center, 2486 Legarda Street, Sampaloc,  Manila. A registration fee of P 300.00 includes one snack, one seminar kit, and a certificate of participation signed by the organizers.

For reservations or more information, please call Ellen at 733-7027. Or, you may send us a telefax at 734-9425; a text through mobile# 0919-2337783; or an email at life@prolife.org.ph. Visit our website at www.prolife.org.ph

As part of its lobby and advocacy efforts, PRO-LIFE PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION, INC. invites all prolifers most especially advocacy group leaders, parishioners, teachers, and students to attend the Pro-Life Seminar Series for July titled “Strategies to Protect Life and the Family in the 15th Congress.”

This seminar aims to shed light on using lobbying activities as means of cultivating a culture of life as well as to educate pro-lifers on how they can help on advancing the pro-life agenda in numerous venues especially in the legislative arm of the government.

Seasoned pro-life lawyer Atty. Jo Aurea Imbong of the Ang Kapatiran will be sharing her expertise on raising arguments against controversial anti-life bills. BUHAY Party-List’s Mr. Jose “Agoy” Descallar will be explaining the prospective landscape of the 15th Congress of the Philippines. Rep. William Irwin Tieng of the BUHAY Party-List will discuss on how prolifers can help convince legislators to support the pro-life cause.

An open forum comes after each of the speaker’s discussion.

The seminar is slated on a Saturday, July 31, 2010 from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM at the St. Joseph Retreat House Conference Room, Our Lady of Loreto Church, Manzanas Street, Sampaloc, Manila. A registration fee of P 750.00 includes one snack, one lunch, one seminar kit, and a certificate of participation signed by the organizers.

For reservations or more information, please call Ellen at 733-7027. Or, you may send us a telefax at 734-9425; a text through mobile# 0919-2337783; or an email at life@prolife.org.ph. Visit our website at www.prolife.org.ph

We are inviting all teachers, educators, guidance counselors, parish workers, and pro-lifers to participate in Pro-Life Philippines’ Teen Sexuality Teaching and Counseling Seminar on May 27 to 29 at the Bahay Ugnayan inside the Good Shepherd Convent in Aurora Boulevard, Quezon City.

The training seminar aims to strengthen the ability of the participants to respond to the needs of today’s teen-agers with respect to issues on human sexuality, marriage, family planning and population education, according to the teachings of the Catholic Church.  This year, we include issues such as ’suicide and the emo culture’ and ‘pornography and media’.

Participants will be trained to implement the training modules on teen sexuality packaged in our manual entitled “LEARNING TO LIVE and LOVE” Plus updated supplementary activity and reading materials.  This manual has been endorsed by the Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education and the Commission on Family and Life of the Archdiocese of Manila.

For reservations or more information, please call Ellen at 733-7027 or 6923794. Or, you may send us a telefax at 734-9425; a text through our mobile 0919-2337783; or an email at life@prolife.org.ph. Visit our website at www.prolife.org.ph. Seminar fee of P 1,200.00 covers three-days worth of handouts, meals, and certificate.

The Samahang Laiko ng Pilipinas invites everyone to a Holy Mass and “Covenant for the Protection of the Filipino Family” on Sunday, May 2, 2010, 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM at the Manila Cathedral.

The concelebrated Mass will be officiated by His Eminence Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, Archbishop of Manila. Most Rev. Paciano Aniceto, Chairman of the CBCP Episcopal Commission on Family and Life and Most Rev. Jesse E. Mercado, Chairman of the CBCP Episcopal Commission on the Laity will be among the concelebrants.

According to the group’s president Edgardo J. Tria Tirona, This initiative is being organized by the different Family Life groups and National Lay Organizations as part of the consistent and strong commitment to uphold the sanctity of life and the protection of the Filipino family.

The group also finds it a necessity to show politicians that there is a Catholic conscience vote to reckon with.

Candidates vying for the various National Posts are being invited to sign this “Covenant for the Protection of the Filipino Family”.

THE VARSITARIAN, the official student publication of the University of Santo Tomas, invites everyone to attend the 7th Jose Villa Panganiban Professorial Lecture titled “A Post-Mortem on the Reproductive Health Bill” on Thursday, April 22 at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex Auditorium starting 3 PM.

Renowned lawyer, TV host and Philippine Star columnist Atty. Jose C. Sison will be delivering his piece on the various facets of the highly controversial Reproductive Health bill and how its passage can largely affect the socio-political conditions of our society. An open forum will also be held right after the discussion of the lecture.

The Jose Villa Panganiban Professorial Chair for Journalism lecture is an annual lecture on currents and issues on journalism and the media arts.

It was established in 1999 through an endowment by the Varsitarian, led by then editor-in-chief Christian Esguerra, who is now a journalism professor at the Faculty of Arts and Letters and writer for the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

The Professorial Chair is named after Jose Villa Panganiban, the founder of the Varsitarian, and is lodged with the A.B. Journalism program of the Faculty of Arts and Letters.

For more inquiries, contact The Varsitarian office at 406-16-11 loc. 8235. You can also visit their website at www.varsitarian.net.

Alex and Brett Harris of The Rebelution

Do Hard Things Philippines is bringing The Rebelution’s Do Hard Things Tour to the Philippines by June 19, 2010 at the Ultra in Pasig City. Each conference is a challenging one-day event for teens by teens who believe that our generation is ready for a change.

”Teens are hungry for real challenges, far more than they are given credit for,” say twins Alex and Brett Harris, founders of The Rebelution Movement and authors of the bestseller Do Hard Things—A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations released locally last June 2009. The twins will be the featured speakers of the conferences here in the country.

“We believe that our generation is ready to rethink what teens are capable of doing and becoming. And we’ve noticed that once wrong ideas are debunked and cleared away, our generation is quick to choose a better way, even if it’s also more difficult.” The Do Hard Things Tour invites you to explore some radical questions:

• Is it possible that even though teens today have more freedom than any other generation in history, we’re actually missing out on some of the best years of our lives?

• Is it possible that what our culture says about the purpose and potential of the teen years is a lie, and that we are its victims? • Is it possible that our teen years give us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for huge accomplishments — as individuals and as a generation?

• And finally, what would our lives look like if we set out on a different path entirely — a path that required more effort but promised a lot more reward?

"Do Hard Things" book cover

We describe that alternative path with three simple words: Do Hard Things. E-mail dohardthing.ph@gmail.com to get involved and to get more information in the upcoming tour.

Watch their video promo by clicking on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ48OeToqqk. You can also visit their website at www.therebelution.com for more details.

Promoting a culture of life, love and peace, PRO-LIFE PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION, INC. invites everyone to attend the annual commemoration of the “Day of the Unborn.”

In its firm resolve to help eradicate abortion from the face of the earth, Pro-Life designed this activity in grief for the souls of the aborted babies who never saw the splendor of God’s creation, who never felt the warmth of their mother’s embrace and whose voice were never even heard. The event would hopefully serve as an awakening to those who view abortion as a way out of pregnancy instead of a blessing of a new life. The increasing rate of abortion today has become a path towards moral decadence and devastating psycho-spiritual effects on the lives of the aborted women, the men involved, and the abortion providers.

With these thoughts, we are enjoining you to proclaim your pro-life stand. Let us all offer prayers in memory of the innocent aborted babies who neither had the voice or the choice to be born. Participate in Light a Candle for Life Ceremony on March 24 (eve of the Day of the Unborn) in front of the Monument for the Unborn in Plaza Miranda. The activity will start after the 6:00 pm Holy Mass at the Basilica of the Black Nazarene, Quiapo Church.

Archbishop Paciano Aniceto, Chair of the Episcopal commission on Family and Life, has issued a letter to dioceses all over the country to encourage their parishes to celebrate the Day of the Unborn on March 25 .

For more information, contact the Pro-life office at 733-7027, telefax 734-9425; 0919-2337783; or life@prolife.org.ph, www.prolife.org.ph

PRO-LIFE PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION, INC. invites the member of your parish/school to attend a seminar/forum themed “Pornography and Media.”

As part of the series of Pro-Life forums for the year 2010, this edition aims to inform students, their teachers and parents about the growing horrors brought about by pornography and how it has become a thriving industry for a short span of time. This forum further updates them on the evils rooted from the proliferation of pornography around the world.

Philippine Daily Inquirer’s editorial cartoonist and a strong advocate against violence in media, Mr. Jess Abrera will be sharing his knowledge and views regarding the topic as the forum’s facilitator. An open discussion will ensue for all the participants to give their opinions and ask queries vis-à-vis pornography.

The forum is scheduled on March 20, 2010, Saturday, from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon at the conference hall of Bahay Ugnayan, Good Shepherd Convent, 1043 Aurora Blvd., Quezon City. Registration fee of Php200.00 includes the participant’s kit, merienda, and certificate. Registration starts at 8:00 AM.

For reservations or more information, please call Ellen at 733-7027. You may also send us a telefax at 734-9425; a text through mobile # 0919-2337783; or an email at life@prolife.org.ph.

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Aside from a broken heart, there is also a need to heal a broken spirit, a broken soul even an ailing body this Valentine’s season. Let PRO-LIFE PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION help you do the mending.

With the cooperation of the Blessed Margaret of Castello Movement spearheaded by Bro. Gonzalo Goquiolay, the Foundation invites you to attend a Pro-life Mass for Healing with Rev. Fr. Efren Borromeo of Trinitas Healing Ministry on February 18, Thursday, 5:00 PM at the Sto. Domingo Church.

This event is dedicated to holistically nurturing our spiritual health in cognizant of the arduous and challenging situations we face on a daily basis. Also, the event will act as a venue to promote the pro-life stance among more people. The schedule of the event is as follows:

5:00 – 5:30 pm
Pro-Life Talk
Marita F. Wasan
Executive Director, Pro-Life Philippines Foundation

5:30 – 6:00 pm
Novena Prayer to Blessed Margaret of Castello

6:00 – 7:00 pm
Mass for Healing
REV. FR. GEORGE MORENO, OP
Parish Priest
Main Celebrant

REV. FR. EFREN BORROMEO, SOLT
Trinitas Healing Ministry

7:00 pm – onwards
Healing Services
REV. FR. EFREN BORROMEO
Trinitas Healing Ministry

PRO-LIFE PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION, INC. is a non-profit, non-stock non-government organization dedicated to promoting respect and care for human life from conception to natural death. Aside from Education and Training, its programs and services include Counseling, Advocacy, and Public Awareness.

For inquiries, kindly contact Ellen Sanchez or Malou Agsaluna at the Pro-Life Philippines Foundation Secretariat located at the San Lorenzo Ruiz Student Catholic Center, 2486 Legarda Street, Sampaloc, Manila with numbers 734-9425 or 733-7027.

‘Love life’ this ‘love month’

Still in search of a “lovelife?” Your chase concludes this February.

PRO-LIFE PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION quenches your quest for love as the Foundation primes up to highlight ways on how to “love life” this Valentine season.

In staying committed to its advocacies, the Foundation is again set to celebrate another edition of the PRO-LIFE MONTH this February 2010. Themed “Buhay Mo, Mahal Ko,” this year’s celebration promises to put more emphasis on loving life and loving the right to life, which are both founding principles of the Foundation.

An opening salvo for the month-long celebration will be hosted by the Archdiocesan Shrine of the Our Lady of Guadalupe in Makati City on February 7, Sunday, 12:00 noon. Following the celebration of the Holy Mass with parish priest Fr. Edwin Mercado, there will be a short program that will formally usher in the pro-life mood for the whole month. Included in the program will be the presentation of a teaser of the upcoming Pro-Life ad campaign against abortion.

The said gathering will be attended by vanguard pro-lifers such as former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza and Pro-Life Philippines Founder Sr. Mary Pilar Verzosa, RGS among others.

With the cooperation of the Blessed Margaret of Castello Movement spearheaded by Bro. Gonzalo Goquiolay, a Pro-life Mass for Healing with Rev. Fr. Efren Borromeo of Trinitas Healing Ministry is scheduled on February 18, Thursday, 5:00 PM at the Sto. Domingo Church. This event is dedicated to holistically nurturing our spiritual health in cognizant of the arduous and challenging situations people face on a daily basis. Also, the event will act as a venue to promote the pro-life stance among more people most especially the young.

Handsome prizes are up for grabs in the Pro-Life Photography Competition and Pro-Life List Competition. Still part of the celebration, ongoing this February are these two contests that seek to promote the pro-life cause and simultaneously harness the potential of creative people especially those coming from the youth sector in ingeniously displaying the pro-life movement’s key thrusts.

The winning entries in the contests will be displayed in the culminating ceremonies of the month at the Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage in Antipolo City on February 28, Sunday, 5:00 PM. Antipolo Bishop Gabriel Reyes will be officiating the celebration of the Mass.

Further, the Foundation expects parish-based Family & Life Apostolate groups together with their parish organizations to hold Pro-life activities to celebrate the gift of life and promote a culture that celebrates family values.

PRO-LIFE PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION, INC. is a non-profit, non-stock non-government organization dedicated to promoting respect and care for human life from conception to natural death. Aside from Education and Training, its programs and services include Counseling, Advocacy, and Public Awareness.

For inquiries regarding the activities and the contests, kindly contact Ellen Sanchez or Malou Agsaluna at the Pro-Life Philippines Foundation Secretariat located at the San Lorenzo Ruiz Student Catholic Center, 2486 Legarda Street, Sampaloc, Manila with numbers 734-9425 or 733-7027.