There is no question but that this has been a difficult year for the Australian Catholic Church. Debates around the seal of the confessional and religious freedom, the ongoing troubles concerning Cardinal Pell, the decriminalising of abortion in New South Wales: each of these has hit us with a blow that has left us reeling, and from which we are yet to come back.
This is a very special Parousia Hour with Abby Johnson. In this interview, Charbel Raish from Parousia interviews the former employee of the worlds largest abortion provider and gets to know her story on her conversion and how it has now been produced in a movie called unplanned.
Visit her website www.abbyjohnson.org (ready the about Abby Page to know more)
There is a very special reason why I am alive and also why I was named Charbel. About halfway through my mother’s pregnancy, she bled heavily for about a week. Naturally, she became very worried and went to her doctor. The outcome of that visit was that her doctor made it very clear to her that the bleeding was not good for the viability of the pregnancy and that the baby, me, would have less than a 5% chance of surviving.
Last week I rang my local NSW State member of the Legislative Assembly to leave a message. Since he had been reported in local media as being committed to voting against a proposed abortion bill, I wanted to thank him and urge him to stay strong amidst the inevitable attacks that would assail his resolve.
