Interviu cu John-Henry Westen, cofondator şi redactor-şef la LifeSiteNews.com, Canada / Forumul Internaţional „Familii numeroase şi viitorul umanităţii”

interviu realizat de Ştefana Totorcea 

Există un motiv personal care v-a determinat să vă implicaţi în crearea unui website pentru viaţă?

Am fost crescut ca bun catolic. Apoi am trăit în afara Bisericii şi am întors spatele Vieţii şi Familiei timp de mai mulţi ani. Dar viaţa mea de catolic nepracticant a fost foarte grea, deşi în ochii lumii părea foarte bună: aveam prietenă, aveam maşină şi eram popular.

Dar înăuntrul meu lucrurile arătau îngrozitor. Mă simţeam mereu vinovat şi singur şi în sinea mea ştiam că greşeam.

S-a întâmplat că am avut un tată foarte sfânt, care se ruga mereu pentru mine. Eu îl tot luam peste picior, ştiţi… Făceam toate lucrurile care erau împotriva dorinţelor lui. Am avut şi probleme cu legea. Am fost implicat în pornografie, dansam noaptea târziu cu fete şi altele asemenea.

În cele din urmă, rugăciunile tatei au avut un efect paradoxal: viaţa mea a luat-o la vale. Am ajuns să am necazuri cu legea – am fost arestat –, urma să fiu dat afară de la şcoală, să-mi pierd libertatea şi să o pierd şi pe singura fată care îmi plăcea cu adevărat.

Şi atunci m-am întors către Dumnezeu. În principal, datorită exemplului tatei, dar şi cu ajutorul devoţiunii faţă de Fecioara Maria după poveţele Sfântului Louis de Montfort. Este un mod de a-ţi dedica viaţa lui Iisus Hristos prin Maica sa, Fecioara Maria.

Aşa a început LifeSiteNews.com. Fiindcă ştiam cum era să trăieşti întorcând spatele Vieţii şi cât rău trupesc şi sufletesc aduce aceasta. Vreau ca tuturor să le fie bine. De aceea, misiunea website-ului LifeSiteNews.com este să expună urâciunea unei astfel de vieţi şi frumuseţea vieţii în Hristos, să explice cât de frumos este să te dedici Vieţii şi familiei.

Şi am o bucurie mare: fata aceea pe care o credeam pierdută când trăiam o viaţă nebună a devenit soţia mea şi avem opt copii împreună. Nu merit o viaţă atât de bună, aşa că este o mare onoare pentru mine să o împărtăşesc întregii lumi prin intermediul site-ului LifeSiteNews.com

Cu ce gânduri şi aşteptări aţi venit aici, la acest forum internaţional pe tema familiilor numeroase?

Este ceva uimitor aici. În toată America de Nord şi în cea mai mare parte a Europei, guvernele sunt împotriva familiei. Şi împotriva vieţii: guvernele sunt pro-avort, pro-homosexualitate. Dar iată o conferinţă care promovează familiile numeroase, viaţa şi familia în general. Iar evenimentul este sprijinit de guvern, cu miniştri care chiar iau cuvântul. Din acest punct de vedere, este ceva uluitor.

Ce mesaj aveţi pentru familiile din România?

Trebuie să urmăm învăţăturile lui Hristos pentru familie date prin Biserica Lui, care spun că trebuie să dăm rod şi să ne înmulţim, să îmbrăţişăm Viaţa şi iubirea şi familia. Motivul pentru care trebuie să facem aceasta este că Dumnezeu ne-a creat şi ştie ce e mai bine pentru noi. A fi deschişi către viaţă şi către familie nu ne dăunează, aşa cum spune lumea. Este exact pe dos: acesta e cel mai bun lucru pentru noi. Cât timp am trăit în afara acestor învăţături, chiar dacă îmi era bine în exterior, eram rănit pe dinăuntru. Pe când acum, după ce m-am întors de partea Vieţii, chiar şi când mă confrunt cu greutăţi din exterior, pe dinăuntru este numai bucurie.

Preluare de pe Ştiri pentru viaţă

Să ajutăm LifeSiteNews

LifeSiteNews este sursa multor traduceri care apar pe acest blog. ​LifeSiteNews​  ​are mai mult de un milion de vizitatori pe lună. Echipa LifeSiteNews are nevoie de bani pentru ​a ​ continua munca extraordinară pe care o face, nu doar pentru cetățenii americani, ci pentru toți cei care doresc să apere viața copiilor nenăscuți.​

Un donator le-a promis că oferă 75.000 $ dacă reușesc să primescă donații de la 3.500 de persoane diferite până la 1 iulie, indiferent de mărimea donației.​  ​În continuare sunt detaliile cererii lor.

Dear readers,

Today we launch our very important summer campaign with a BIG problem. But fortunately, we also have a fabulous potential solution! 

This amazing animation video created for us by Mirandum Pictures tells the story of our current situation far better than any words I could write in this letter. Please watch below:

I am also excited to give you extra background details about the special donor who inspired us to run this unusual summer campaign.

Just last month, a few of us traveled to the home of a couple who are enthusiastic LifeSiteNews readers and who had expressed great interest in helping us move to the next level in our news reporting.

As we were presenting the couple an overview of our past few years’ growth statistics and financial situation, they were struck by the contrast between our explosive growth in readership and the far slower growth in the number of people donating to LifeSiteNews.

They said we had to change our situation or else this exciting leap in readership would not be sustainable.

To them, it was obvious we had to give very high priority – right now – to dramatically increasing our donor base to match the readership growth.

Otherwise, they emphasized, the financial and other stresses of serving such a large, rapidly increasing readership would quickly overwhelm us and threaten the viability of LifeSiteNews.

And you know what? We realized they were right. If we are going to take our news service to the next level, supporting traffic from tens of millions more people and handling requests for news from increasingly more countries around the world – we have to expand!

Be a part of our truth mission - TODAY!

We have been ecstatic about the huge numbers of new readers who have been coming to LifeSiteNews for the best life and family news reports anywhere – but we need your help if we are going to remain a strong force to be reckoned with by those who seek to undermine life and family principles.

All this at a time when LifeSiteNews is so critically needed – when the culture war is white hot!

To get us started, this couple very generously offered to give us a check for $75,000 if we could convince a minimum of 3,500 individual persons to make a donation of any amount in the next 14 days.

Actually, they said they are hoping that as many as 7,500 people will make a donation. And, they are challenging every donor to give at least a $75 gift to LSN during this campaign!

However, they set the bare minimum goal of 3,500 donors for us to earn the $75,000. Also, since we understand that many cannot afford to give $75 (while others can give even more), donations of ANY amount will count towards reaching the minimum of 3,500 donors needed to receive the $75,000 check.

This time, and for the first time ever, the campaign thermometer will display only the current number of persons who have donated.

We need to reach the minimum number by the campaign end date of July 1st. However, donations can, as always, still be received after that date.

So there you have it.

Please, make as generous a donation as you can.  $10, $25, $50, $75, $150, $250, $500, $1,000 or even $5,000 - Whatever amount, large or small, your donation is vital to moving our mission forward. 

And if you can’t donate, say a prayer that this campaign will be successful. We count those prayers as some of our biggest gifts of all.

We are hoping and praying for success during these two weeks of the campaign.

If you have not yet done so, now is the best time ever to become an active part of the LifeSiteNews team by making a commitment to this TRUTH in news mission with a financial contribution.

To make a donation by phone or mail, please click here.

For life, family and the TRUTH

Steve Jalsevac

Managing Director

LifeSiteNews.com

Viața este inima Crăciunului - mesaje de sărbători de la Life Site News și Live Action

În acest an, cele mai multe materiale pentru-viaţă postate au fost traduse de pe saiturile LifeSiteNews şi Live Action. Preluăm acum mesajele lor de sărbătoarea Naşterii Domnului. Nu le mai traducem, căci şi voluntarii noştri sunt în vacanţă - şi, apropo de voluntari, nădăjduim că Hristos Domnul va mai pune în inima câtorva cunoscători de limba engleză gândul de a ajuta la traduceri. Clipul de la LifeSiteNews este însă explicit pentru ceea ce vor să comunice - preţuiţi şi apăraţi viaţa, darul lui Dumnezeu.

Dear readers,

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: without you LifeSiteNews.com would not exist!

As we prepare to celebrate Christmas, we want to take a moment once again to express our deep gratitude to our readers who have stuck by us all these years, supporting us with their donations, their encouragement, and most of all with their prayers.

Christmas, above all, is a special time for LifeSiteNews. The birth of Christ to a poor carpenter and his wife in a stable in Bethlehem is a resounding affirmation of everything that LifeSiteNews.com stands for – the importance of life, family and faith.

Our staff will be taking the next week off, to spend some much-needed time with their families celebrating the feast, recharging for the busy year to come. But before we close up shop, we wanted to share with you a brief video the many of us have put together.

We hope you enjoy!

Once again, from all of us at LifeSiteNews.com, God bless and Merry Christmas! We’ll see you in the New Year!

Sincerely,

The LifeSiteNews.com Team

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Life is at the Heart of Christmas...

Dear Friends,

This Christmas, my heart is filled with joy as I think about little Jesus coming into the world, a gift to all mankind. This Christmas Eve, we celebrate the greatness and the gift of each child, waiting to be born.

Christ was Christ at the moment of conception, God incarnate and the hope of every heart. Even St John the Baptist leaped for joy as an unborn baby, knowing he was close to Christ, when Elizabeth met pregnant Mary. Jesus coming to us as a helpless tiny child is God's humility and love revealed, and teaches us to hold precious every tiny child made in His image, from the moment of conception. Not because of their strength, but precisely because of their weakness and vulnerability--their need to be loved.  

Thank you so much for enabling our team at Live Action to advocate for the dignity and protection of every child, on high school and college campuses, in the media, speaking truth to politics, and beyond. 

May God grant you and your family every blessing this Christmas time.

Merry Christmas and God bless you,

Lila Rose

President

Live Action

Ajutaţi LifeSiteNews

Having to choose which news stories we won’t be able to cover each day is probably the hardest decision we have to make.  There is just too much to report on and not enough manpower or time to cover every development that needs our attention.

This has always been a struggle for us.

Over the past 16 years, we have often received important news tips and insider information from you, our readers.

These tips have led to many of our most significant stories. However, trying to stay on top of the growing mountain of tips and news developments on all the fronts that we cover is overwhelming!

We have had requests from all over the world to expand our coverage. We wish that we could fulfill all of these requests. We really do, because we understand the great importance and need of this.

However, while we are still not at a point where we can take on every important news story that needs reporting each day, we have made great strides this past year to expand our coverage.

And we have you to thank for that success!

Help us to continue to grow the impact of this unique news mission!

Support our Christmas Campaign.

(Click Here to Donate)

You have blessed us by providing the financial resources we need to bring the often withheld TRUTH to the pro-life and pro-family world, and the wider culture.

You asked for it, and you made it happen!

With just a small amount of support from more of our readers and subscribers, we could accomplish so much - covering a larger number of important stories, doing necessary website improvements, responding to more of the huge volume of emails that we receive, and this is just the beginning.

Over a million people visit our site each month, and only a tiny fraction of these readers are regular subscribers to the LifeSiteNews daily news reports!

Within this small group of daily subscribers, less than 10% contribute to our quarterly campaigns.

If only 25% of our subscribers made a donation each year, think about what we could accomplish!

This Christmas, I pose this question to our subscribers and readers:

What is this news service worth to you? $2 per month? $5? $10? $25?

If LifeSiteNews subscribers donated only $2 per month, or the equivalent of $25 per year for the top quality news they receive each day, we would surpass our necessary fundraising goals with a little extra to continue expanding our coverage.

Perhaps you are not a subscriber to our free daily news updates but visit LifeSiteNews daily, weekly, or monthly.

What is the TRUTH worth to you?

This Christmas, tell us how you value our service with a donation. Whatever amount you can give, large or small, we are depending on you!

You, our readers, are the source of revenue that pays the expenses for this effective cultural change mission.

Please Support the LifeSitenews Christmas Campaign

(Click Here to Donate)

God bless you,

Steve Jalsevac

Managing Director

LifeSiteNews.com 

info@lifesitenews.com