{"id":302263,"date":"2023-11-27T14:40:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T20:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=302263"},"modified":"2023-11-27T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T17:58:36","slug":"backlash-catholic-prayer-app-liam-neeson-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/backlash-catholic-prayer-app-liam-neeson-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Backlash rises against Catholic prayer app for hiring pro-abortion actor Liam Neeson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Catholic prayer app Hallow is facing criticism<\/a> after announcing<\/a> the addition of pro-abortion actor Liam Neeson.<\/p>\n

Recent advertisements from Hallow<\/a> show that Neeson will be voicing the app’s guided Advent prayers called “Advent with C.S. Lewis.” Neeson was known several years ago for his role as the voice of the lion Aslan in the film series adaptation of Anglican Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia.” But he was also a strong and vocal supporter of legalizing abortion in Ireland in 2018.<\/p>\n

That year, Neeson, who was raised Catholic, narrated a film made by pro-abortion Amnesty International, which called on the Irish government to repeal the Eighth Amendment of its constitution which made abortion a crime except when the mother’s life was in danger. (Induced abortion \u2014 the direct and intentional killing of a child in the womb \u2014 is not medically necessary<\/a>.) Catholic Arena<\/a> noted that the ad also included anti-Catholic imagery and suggested that Catholicism was a “darkness” that “haunts” Ireland. Abortion was perceived as the remedy.<\/p>\n

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