Lubango, 29 June, 2025 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Archbishop Gabriel Mbilingi of Angola’s Catholic Archdiocese of Lubango has denounced the growing culture of abortion and called for the building of just governance systems that address the country’s recurrent challenges, especially hunger.
In his Wednesday, June 25 homily during the Jubilee for the Laity in his Metropolitan See, Archbishop Mbilingi lamented, “Nowadays, our mindset is very abortion-oriented, and foreigners say they will no longer support Angola’s development because you give birth too much.”
“They claim we’re underdeveloped because there are too many people for the available resources. But if we look at our demographic reality, that argument doesn’t hold,” he said at Holy Mass held at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish of Lubango Archdiocese.
The Angolan member of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans/Holy Ghost Fathers/CSSp.) also expressed concern about the 2019 decriminalization of abortion in Angola, particularly the role of Christian lawmakers.
“Since February 2019, our National Assembly has legalized abortion. Over 69% of the members were Christians. But they preferred to be Christian parliamentarians, rather than parliamentarians who live by Christian values,” he said.
