{"id":303946,"date":"2023-12-22T14:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T20:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=303946"},"modified":"2023-12-26T13:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:57:47","slug":"cities-latin-america-spain-light-up-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cities-latin-america-spain-light-up-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities in Latin America and Spain unite to &#8216;Light Up Life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Catholic Church will mark the Feast of the Holy Innocents on December 28, and cities in Latin America and Spain will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aciprensa.com\/noticias\/102404\/alumbra-la-vida-animan-a-encender-una-vela-por-los-ninos-este-28-de-diciembre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unite<\/a> in the &#8220;Light Up Life&#8221; campaign to advocate for protections for preborn human beings from the moment of fertilization as well as the preservation of the innocence of children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will gather in the streets and squares of many countries and light a candle for the innocent aborted children,&#8221; said organizers behind the campaign. &#8220;We will gather as sentinels of life, with candles lit, because as on that night of times past, Herod continues killing innocent children&#8230; Herod today is the genocide of abortion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Feast of the Holy Innocents remembers the children slaughtered by King Herod in his quest to kill the newborn Jesus. Politicians of today allow and even promote the genocide of innocent preborn children through abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-life organizations involved in the &#8220;Light up Life&#8221; campaign include 40 Days for Life and the National Front for the Family, a Mexican group consisting of 1,000 organizations that aim to defend the family. The organizations are asking pro-lifers to share this message across social media: &#8220;You don&#8217;t abort a child, you don&#8217;t sexualize a child, you don&#8217;t indoctrinate a child&#8230; Children are sacred!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/celebrate-baby-jesus-kill-preborn-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>How can we celebrate baby Jesus but kill preborn children?<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 100 cities are participating in the campaign, lighting candles as a sign of &#8220;the determined will to safeguard the life and integrity of our children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/256323\/hispanic-world-to-light-up-life-in-defense-of-children-on-feast-of-holy-innocents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic News Agency<\/a>, the campaign highlights the &#8220;serious risk&#8221; children face today because &#8220;governments do not protect them.&#8221; The website of the campaign states that the &#8220;laws that protect the culture of death and those that validate the indoctrination and sexualization of childhood and adolescence&#8221; lead children to fall victim to the &#8220;prisons of sexual exploitation, pornography, and pedophilia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also light our lights for all these children who are torn from their families to turn them into the fodder of vice and crime,&#8221; said the group. It continues, &#8220;For all these reasons, each light we carry bears the names of many children whose lives have been taken by the predatory machinery of abortion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/tell-congress-stop-the-doj-from-targeting-pro-life-americans\/?utm_campaign=doj_petition&amp;utm_medium=lan_website\"><b><i>The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail this Christmas for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30-seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church will mark the Feast of the Holy Innocents on December 28, and cities in Latin America and Spain will unite in the &#8220;Light Up Life&#8221; campaign to advocate for protections for preborn human beings from the moment of fertilization as well as the preservation of the innocence of children. &#8220;We will gather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":304003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7,5,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cities in Latin America and Spain unite to &#039;Light Up Life&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cities in Latin America and Spain will unite in the &quot;Light Up Life&quot; 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