Dar es Salaam, 19 December, 2023 / 8:12 pm (ACI Africa).
The Director of the National Laity Department of the Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC) has cautioned the youth in the East African nation against abortion and urged them to respect life.
In his homily during the opening of the National Conference of Catholic Youth Workers, Fr. Beno Kikudo said that all life belongs to God.
“We must respect life, honor what God has placed as a gift within the mother’s womb,” Fr. Kikudo said during the Tuesday, December 19 event held at the TEC Secretariat.
He added that many young people have been negatively influenced by the media and foreign ideologies “to see pregnancy as a distraction, then we abort.”
The TEC official noted that abortion interferes with God’s plan for his people.