‘The future, a challenge of our present’
by Daniel Hofkamp, Evangelical Focus:
Bioethics conference in Spain analysed major issues from a Christian perspective.
Eleven years ago, the third Bioethics Conference of evangelical Christians in Spain addressed issues that were of great interest at the time: human dignity, abortion, euthanasia, genetics, care for the most vulnerable… Only a decade later those issues are not only still present, but concern for them has permeated even more layers of society.
Among the more than 280 participants of the fourth Jornadas de Bioética (Bioethics conferece) in Alpedrete (near Madrid) between 3-5 December, were both young university graduates and experienced professionals. Many attending the gathering interact with these realities on a daily basis.
“This conference will be a lighthouse in the area of bioethics which will help Christian churches in the real and practical issues we our facing today”, said at the end of the conference Pedro Tarquis, a retired medical doctor and executive director of Evangelical Focus. “There was an unanimity in the feeling that we live in very special and challenging times. As a church, we are lagging, we must not allow all these issues to completely overflow us”.
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