(On the Gospel of Life)
Given in Rome, at Saint Peter's, on 25 March, the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, in the year 1995, the seventeenth of my Pontificate.
Presented by:
John Edward S. Pagalaran
Gerald Garcia
Stephen John Garcia
Submitted to:
Rev. Fr. John Jericho F. Mier, OSA
August 15, 2014
What is it all about? deals with the most basic of all principles – the value and sacredness of human life broken into four main chapters: 1. contemporary threats to life, 2. the Gospel's message regarding life, 3. God's law, 4. and hope for a new culture of life.
Why was this written?
(Regarding those things...in 1995 )
February 13 - A United Nations tribunal on human rights violations in the Balkans charges 21 Bosnian Serb commanders with genocide and crimes against humanity.
--February 15 - Dublin - Republic of Ireland vs England football match in Lansdowne Road abandoned due to violence and rioting.
--February 17 - Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.
--February 21 - Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria: Four guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half.
--February 21 - Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by 3 far right National Front activists.
--March 1 - In Moscow, Russian anti-corruption journalist Vladislav Listyev is killed by a gunman.
If you want to get into late 1994:
--December 26 - French anti-terrorist police storm a hijacked jet at Marseille and kill 4 Islamist terrorists.
--December 21 - A homemade bomb goes off on the # 4 train on Fulton Street in New York City.
--December 19 - Civil unions between homosexuals are made legal in Sweden.
--December 13 - Fred West, 53, a builder living in Gloucester, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies were mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell