Selfie at Christmas party

"Dear Leader" & myself

I just happened to be in London for the SPUC annual staff Christmas dinner last Thursday. Then I thought if Obama & Cameron can do a selfie , then my not me and the Chief Executive of SPUC , Mr . John Smeaton M. A Ox.

On a more serious not I would like to thank everyone who prayed for me in the last year and also those who have prayed for me  for many years. I need all the help I can get.

I do not have to travel away until mid- January. So I am searching for a wee break in the Scottish gales so that I can venture out to catch a crab or a lobster.

Culture of Life Africa

Uju Ekeocha

Lat night I was blessed by having dinner  with a most

 remarkable lady from Nigeria , see opposite.

Last summer she " happened " to be watching CNN ( a thing she rarely does ) and saw Melinda Gates, wife of one of the richest men in the world, claiming Africans needed contraceptives and abortion. She stayed up all night writing an open letter to Mrs Gates challenging her to uphold the dignity of African women.  This letter went viral on the internet  and she started  Culture of Life Africa ,

You may read this beautiful letter at :
http://www.cultureoflifeafrica.org/Open_Letter_English.html

The people here at SPUC Head Office  saw this letter but did not know how to contact her. Then some time later she was at a silent retreat and was introduced to Antonia Tully who edits our Pro- Life Times newspaper. Uju features in the front page of our September 2013 edition.

Uju has a Masters Degree in bio-chemistry .  She also has first hand knowledge about health needs in Africa as she  has lost a close relative in childbirth. This cousin died with a breach birth , there was no hospital where she lived for her to get even basis health care, this was her first birth . The truck loads of condoms etc , from Mrs Gates failed to save this life and many others.

I hope to have Uju come with me to the UN to encourage the African nations to stand up to the bullying tactics of the US and EU. She can speak very eloquently to the real health needs of African women and their babies.

Off to London

This morning I will be getting the train down to London. Then I am off to Canterbury to meet a Nigerian lady called Uju.( her full name is Obianuju Ekeocha ). She has organised a big pro-life conference in Abujah , Nigeria for June next year. She might also be coming to the UN with me at some time.

Tomorrow I will be in the office in Kennington , then its the Christmas dinner that evening.

Friday I will be getting the train home , and will not be away again until mid January.

Merry Christmas and a blessed year ahead to you all.

Getting close to Christmas

Last Saturday morning

Last Sunday afternoon

Got back from London last Friday , one day late, as the gales in Scotland on Wednesday evening closed down all the trains on Thursday.

On Saturday morning I got roped into setting up for a fellowship lunch , see how neatly I set all the tables.

Then on Sunday everyone pounced on their free meal and did not notice the nicely laid out tables.

Such is life !

A good result at the UN

The Archbishop earlier in the meeting with Fr. Wylie behind him

Under the inspired leadership of the Holy See's Nuncio, Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, the culture of death took a significant stumble at the Third Committee of the UN in New York last week.

There are around forty resolutions crafted by this UN committee in October and November each year. The worst resolution this year was on “Protecting Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD)” . Now to the uninitiated this resolution sounds like a fine thing. However it is just a smoke screen used by those promoting both a right to abortion and the radical homosexual agenda.

To see what the opposition said about this resolution please see a quote from the “The international Coalition of Women Human Rights Defenders” own website  :

“Also contentious were important references in the initial draft acknowledging the risks faced by those working on issues of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive rights and matters related to sexuality. [Such words are always used as a euphemism for abortion and birth control.] These references were excluded in later drafts of the resolution as a result of the opposition voiced by a number of States from Africa, Asia and the Holy See. It is regrettable and disappointing that the main sponsors and others were not able to secure specific language related to women human rights defenders working on these critical issues in the final text of the resolution.”

Ref: http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org/un_landmark_resolution_WHRD.php

The African group stood very strongly together , and  introduced L-docs , which are amendments that are tabled just before the resolution is accepted. These were then accepted by the sponsor Norway as they did not want a vote , but a resolution accepted by consensus. This unusual step was taken because Norway and the EU  were not willing to accept changes of any significance during the long and protracted negotiations. So the resolution was accepted but all the bad anti-life / anti-family wording was removed.

This very good result, was obtained for many reasons. Myself and my colleague Patrick Buckley, were there at the negotiations helping out as we usually do. Sharon Slater ( Family Watch International ) and Marie Smith ( Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues ) both did a fine job even though not in New York. The African Group held together as I heard the South African president had upset some African leaders and as a penance agreed not the split this group at the UN. Another very clever tactic of Archbishop Chullikatt was to have several Africans on the Holy See delegation. They also helped keep the African Group on side. There was  help given by Muslim countries and Russia as well.

So the pro-aborts and LGBT advocates got no advancement of their agenda at this session of the Third committee. As I have said many times before, the Holy See at the United Nations is the conscience of the world on issues of life and the family as well as many other things.