{"id":7964,"date":"2015-05-20T16:25:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T23:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7964"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:41:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:41:11","slug":"colombias-bishops-seek-conscience-protection-in-wake-of-euthanasia-directives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7964","title":{"rendered":"Colombia&#8217;s bishops seek conscience protection in wake of euthanasia directives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Communicado de la Comisi\u00f3n Permanente de la Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia<\/h2>\n<h2>Statement of the Permanent Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia<\/h2>\n<p><strong>(Extract)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0. . . La Iglesia Cat\u00f3lica quiere ahora reiterar, a trav\u00e9s de la voz de sus pastores, su firme desaprobaci\u00f3n a este grave extrav\u00edo \u00e9tico y moral. Consideramos grav\u00edsimo que derechos fundamentales, como el derecho a la vida, a la libertad de conciencia o a la libertad religiosa, consagrados en nuestra Carta Magna, sean injustamente restringidos por organismos que deber\u00edan ser garantes de la Constituci\u00f3n y de los derechos de los colombianos.<\/td>\n<td>. . . The Catholic Church now wants to reiterate, through the voice of its pastors, its firm disapproval of this serious ethical and moral loss. We consider it very serious that fundamental rights, such as the right to life, freedom of conscience or religious freedom, enshrined in our Constitution, are unjustly restricted by organizations that should be guarantors of the Constitution and of the rights of Colombians.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Como Iglesia Cat\u00f3lica, siempre respetuosa del ordenamiento jur\u00eddico como base fundamental de la sociedad, solicitamos al Gobierno que, en los diversos campos sociales, entre ellos el de la salud, garantice a nuestras instituciones el poder desarrollar su labor en pleno acatamiento de sus propios valores e ideales. . .<\/td>\n<td>As a Catholic Church, always respectful of the legal system as the fundamental basis of society, we ask the Government, in the various social fields, including health, to guarantee our institutions to develop their work in full compliance with their own values and ideals. . .<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unidosporlavida.com\/2015\/05\/la-conferencia-episcopal-apoya-las-iniciativas-pro-vida-de-los-ciudadanos-colombianos\/\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communicado de la Comisi\u00f3n Permanente de la Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia Statement of the Permanent Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia (Extract) \u00a0. . . La Iglesia Cat\u00f3lica quiere ahora reiterar, a trav\u00e9s de la voz de sus pastores, su firme desaprobaci\u00f3n a este grave extrav\u00edo \u00e9tico y moral. Consideramos grav\u00edsimo que derechos fundamentales, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Colombia&#8217;s bishops seek conscience protection in wake of euthanasia directives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,643,34,162,7,10,295],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-christianity-catholicism","category-colombia","category-euthanasia","category-law","category-news-releases","category-religious-freedom"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Colombia&#039;s bishops seek conscience protection in wake of euthanasia directives - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7964\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colombia&#039;s bishops seek conscience protection in wake of euthanasia directives - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Communicado de la Comisi\u00f3n Permanente de la Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia Statement of the Permanent Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia (Extract) \u00a0. . . 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