2012-02-25 17:59:03

Academy for Life: Faith and infertility


Pope Benedict on Saturday received the participants of the 18th General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life. The theme of this year’s meeting is "Diagnosis and treatment of infertility".

One of the participants taking part in the assembly was Gamal Serour, President of International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Director of the International Centre for Population Studies and Research at the Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.

He spoke to Lydia O’Kane about the importance of faith based organizations in their work, saying, “ I believe that faith based organization efforts can play a major role in improving the health and wellbeing of people”.

Professor Serour also goes on to say that he greatly respects and appreciates the Pope’s opinions adding that in his work he has an obligation to those who have a conscientious objection to certain treatments. Listen RealAudioMP3









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