Ecuador Church holds funerals for aborted babies
Ecuador’s Archdiocese of Quito offers a Christian burial for babies who have been aborted and abandoned by their parents.
By Vatican News staff writer
Since 2017, 116 innocent aborted babies have received a dignified burial in Ecuador through the “Babies in Heaven” project.
Run by the Archdiocese of Quito, the initiative is carried out in conjunction with the Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences department of Ecuador’s National Police.
Abandoned babies
According to the Archdiocese, the remains of many of the aborted babies who have received a Christian burial had been kept in the department for several years.