Development & Peace: Misdirected Zeal (Recipients of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops' Development and Peace in Canada Supports Abortion‪)‬

For 42 years, Catholic dioceses across Canada have sent contributions via Share Lent and Share Life to the international development organization of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), known as Development and Peace (D&P) to supply humanitarian help to the poor of the world. On March 11, 2009, the Mexican correspondent for the pro-life news agency LifeSiteNews, Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, revealed that five groups in Mexico funded by D&P are among those pressuring the Mexican government to increase the number of abortion facilities under the banner of "human rights." The groups wants the 2007 legalization of first-trimester abortion in Mexico City to be extended over all jurisdictions in the country. The five groups, called "partners" by D&P, received $170,000 from it in 2007-2008.