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Condom use by poor ‘attractive’ – top English Catholic
LONDON, April 1, 2010 (AFP) – The most senior Catholic in England and Wales said he could understand the attraction of arguments for the use of condoms in poor countries, in comments released Thursday. Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop
of Westminster, stressed the Catholic Church’s opposition to contraception, which saw Pope Benedict XVI say con- doms could even worsen the AIDS crisis during a visit to Africa last year. But Nichols’ comments to BBC radio take a softer tone on the issue. “I think when it comes to third world poverty and the great pressure under which many women are put by men, I can see the arguments why, in the short term, means that give women protection are attractive,” he said.
In the interview to be broadcast in full
on Friday, Nichols added that the use of condoms “doesn’t lack for champions” but it was not “the church’s role simply to add its voice to that”. “Unless we have a vision of the beauty of sexuality and of the openness of sexuality to one of its funda- mental purposes, which is the creation of new life, then we run the risk of reducing it to an entertainment or a pastime or simply a pleasure,” he said.
He also touched on recent clerical abuse scandals in the church, saying that priests who had abused children were “tiny excep- tions” in England and Wales.
The pope is due to visit Britain in Sep- tember and over 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for Prime Minister Gor- don Brown to disassociate himself from his “intolerant views” including opposition to the use of condoms. ■
World raises nearly 10 billion dollars for quake-hit Haiti
BY GERARD AZIAKOU
UNITED NATIONS, April 1, 2010
(AFP) – The global community has pledged nearly 10 billion dollars for Haiti over more than three years to put the quake- ravaged nation back on its feet. The 9.9-billion-dollar pledge from some
50 donors Wednesday includes 5.3 billion dollars for the 2010-2011 period, far in excess of the 3.8 billion that was sought by conference organizers for that period. That target was meant to fund a 4.0-bil- lion-dollar action plan put forward by the Haitian government for reconstruction projects over the next two years in the poorest country in the Americas. “Friends of Haiti have acted far beyond expectations,” United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon told a press conference wrapping up the meeting.
The aim of the meeting was to help the battered Caribbean country “build back better” after the 7.0-magnitude quake on January 12 leveled parts of its capital Port- au-Prince, killing at least 220,000 people and leaving 1.3 million homeless. Wednesday’s biggest contributions came from the United States and the 27-member European Union.
Several dignitaries emphasized the need to follow through on the pledges, which Ban said “will be published and tracked by a Web-based system” established by the U.N. and Haiti.
“Reconstruction will be Haitian-led, inclusive, accountable, transparent, coor- dinated and results oriented,” U.S. Secre- tary of State Hillary Clinton told the press conference.
The U.S. chief diplomat, co-hosting the conference with Ban, offered 1.15 billion dollars, saying the funds would go toward supporting Haiti’s plan “to strengthen ag- riculture, energy, health, and security and governance.”
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ash- ton told the meeting that EU contributions, including an additional 1.6 billion dollars announced Wednesday, brought total EU public and private aid “close to three bil- lion dollars.”
Some 138 countries, international bod- ies such as the World Bank and the Interna- tional Monetary Fund, non-governmental organizations and Haitian expatriates took part in the one-day conference. Officials have estimated Haiti needs
11.5 billion dollars in aid for reconstruction over the next 10 years.
Stressing the need not to repeat past er- rors in helping impoverished Haiti, Clinton appealed to the world to “do things differ- ently” this time. “We cannot retreat to failed strategies,” she added. “We need Haiti to succeed.” Her husband, U.S. special envoy to
Haiti and former U.S. president Bill Clin- ton, said that he and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive would lead an In- terim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) tasked with overseeing the pledges. The IHRC, which will have an 18-month mandate, is meant to give the Haitian government “influence over how and where aid is spent and will ensure that the reconstruction is well coordinated” and addresses the needs of all Haitians. The World Bank said it would provide 479 million dollars in aid through June 2011, of which 250 million was new funding. World Bank President Robert Zoellick called for another meeting in six months’ time, coinciding with the annual General Assembly session in September to assess the progress. ■
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