Dutch Catholic charity actively promotes contraception in Africa, report finds
May 26, 2015
A Dutch Catholic charity has been actively involved in promoting contraception and distributing condoms, the Lepanto Institute has discovered.
Cordaid (Catholic Organization for Relief and Development Aid) has called for “the availability of more contraceptives” in Africa’s Great-Lakes region; the organization’s literature promises to “expose and counter the local myths and superstitions relating to anti-conception.”
Citing Cordaid’s own literature, statements, and web site, the Lepanto Institute showed that the organization has promoted access to contraceptives in Africa, and boasted that its work has helped to ensure “constant provision of supplies condoms and other family planning methods.”
Cordaid is an affiliate of Caritas International, the consortium of Catholic relief agencies run under the guidance of the Vatican.
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