Bishop Dr Alvin Bailey
A senior clergyman has described as atrocious, disgraceful and alarming a recommendation by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) that minors be allowed to access an abortion on their own without the consent of a parent.
Bishop Dr Alvin Bailey, the chairman of the Jamaica Churches Action Uniting Society for Emancipation (CAUSE), said in a statement on Monday that the proposal by CAPRI must be rejected by all well thinking Jamaicans .
He added that such a call could be translated to mean that these persons of high intelligence and outstanding academic achievements are spiritually deprived in advocating abortion as a method of contraceptive.
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Church leaders are expressing shock and outrage at Sunday’s brutal murder of 50-year-old bank executive Andrea Lowe-Garwood inside the Agape Christian Fellowship Church in Falmouth, Trelawny, with at least one suggesting that it may be time for leaders to consider implementing some form of security at places of worship to prevent such attacks in the future.
“I think it may now become important for some churches to seriously assess their risk profile. I know some of the bigger churches have security guards and so on but, maybe in the interest of personal, physical safety, some churches might need to do some thinking, President of the Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC), the Reverend Newton Dixon, told
An influential church group is condemning the latest bout of vicious killings across Jamaica.
In a news release Tuesday, Jamaica Churches Action Uniting Society for Em