An archdiocese in the Philippines has found our website to be very helpful in their promotion of natural family planning. Cagayan de Oro Archbishop Antonio Ledesma is promoting natural family planning as an alternative to artificial contraception by launching two books on natural family planning.
In the Church’s promotion of NFP, Natural Family Planning International (that’s us!) website is quoted, “NFP is a way of following God’s plan for achieving and/or avoiding pregnancy. It consists of ways to achieve or to avoid pregnancy using the physical means that God has built into human nature.”
“NFP has two distinct forms:
Ecological breastfeeding (a form of child care that normally spaces babies about two years apart on the average) and
Systematic NFP (a system that uses a woman’s signs of fertility to determine the fertile and infertile times of her cycle).”
Also “A married couple who wants to avoid pregnancy is encouraged to practice chaste abstinence during the fertile time of the woman’s cycle.”
We are thrilled to see this announcement and to be of help to another country and hope other countries follow as well.
Sheila Kippley
Natural Family Planning: The Complete Approach