Krishna - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:27:22 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Krishna - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 100-plus religious leaders oppose US contraception mandate https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/07/05/100-plus-religious-leaders-oppose-us-contraception-mandate/ Thu, 04 Jul 2013 19:01:53 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=46511 The leaders of dozens of religious groups have joined the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Southern Baptist Convention in signing an open letter opposing the Obama administration's contraception mandate. They highlighted the threat to conscience posed by the mandate requiring almost all employers to cover contraception, sterilisation and abortifacient drugs and devices Read more

100-plus religious leaders oppose US contraception mandate... Read more]]> The leaders of dozens of religious groups have joined the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Southern Baptist Convention in signing an open letter opposing the Obama administration's contraception mandate.

They highlighted the threat to conscience posed by the mandate requiring almost all employers to cover contraception, sterilisation and abortifacient drugs and devices in their health insurance plans.

The 100-plus leaders included representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Orthodox Christian and Jewish leaders

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