Asunción, Paraguay, May 26, 2005 / 22:00 pm
During an ecumenical service held at the archdiocesan Cathedral in Asuncion, Paraguay, Archbishop Pastor Cuquejo and various evangelical leaders expressed their rejection of proposed laws that would constitute an attack on human life and the family.
The service, which was held in response to a proposed law that would liberalize the country’s abortion and marriage laws, was attended by the president of the Association of Evangelical Pastors of Paraguay, Santiago Maldonado; Anglican Bishop Juan Ellinson; Pastor Jose Micena, and Archbishop Pastor Cuquejo of Asuncion.
Micena criticized lawmakers who want to “change the natural order established by God,” rejecting in the name of Evangelical churches, “the immoral and depraved bills that seek to relativize human life,” and he warned politicians that if they don’t change their attitudes, “the people will make them pay dearly.”
Anglican Bishop Ellinson invited all Christians to strengthen the family and he reminded parents that they should be the first teachers of their children. “If relativism was stopped in Europe, it can be stopped here as well and moral values can be recovered.”