population control Archives

China denies coercive birth control measures in Xinjiang

Jan 11, 2021

A Chinese official on Monday denied Beijing has imposed coercive birth control measures among Muslim minority women, following an outcry over a tweet by the Chinese Embassy in Washington claiming that government polices had freed women of the Uighur ethnic group from being “baby-making machines.”

By Associated Press

Expert blasts Chinese ‘hypocrisy’ on easing birth limits, except for Uyghurs

Jul 6, 2020

Women’s rights activist Reggie Littlejohn has criticized China for hypocrisy in encouraging Chinese families to have more children while punishing Uighur Muslims for doing the same.

By Elise Ann Allen

Chinese state media denies imminent plans to end two-child policy

Sep 1, 2018

An official Chinese state media outlet has denied any imminent change to the country’s national two-child policy.

By Courtney Grogan

Vatican tells UN “population bomb” is not the cause of poverty

Apr 6, 2017

The Vatican’s representative to the United Nations said “corruption, protracted conflicts and other man-made disasters” are the cause of entrenched poverty in the developing world, not a “healthy, growing population.” He also called on the world body to “respect life” when it comes to giving international aid.

By Charles Collins

Population control in Africa risks ‘new colonization,’ say church leaders

Mar 23, 2017

At the African theology summit in Rome, Catholic Church leaders from the African continent weighed in on the efforts made by NGO’s and Western governments to enact population control measures. Congolese Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo warns against the dangers, and Beninese Archbishop Berthelemy Adoukonou raises concerns of a “new colonization.”

By Claire Giangravè

Papal academies: Bigger threat to planet is greed, not population growth

Mar 2, 2017

A workshop sponsored by the pontifical academies for sciences and social sciences found that when it comes to climate change the cause is not so much overpopulation, as much as overconsumption and unjust wealth distribution.

By Carol Glatz