About FHL Unit
Our Vision
Our vision is to see a society where the culture of life and traditional family values thrive.
Our Mission
Our mission is to spread respect, promote, protect, and defend human life from conception to natural death; and to stand against all issues which destroy natural marriage and family values.
Our Guiding Principles
The Church’s teaching on marriage and the family is based on the Scriptures and the Magisterium. The Church believes and teaches that marriage is that between a man and a woman. Accordingly, a valid results from four elements: that spouses are free to marry; they freely exchange their consent; in consenting to marry, they have the intention to marry to marry for life, to be faithful to one another and to be open to children. In order words, the conjugal love between a married man and woman must be: free, total, faithful and fruitful, that is, open to life. Aslo, the church's respect respect for human life, marriage, and the family is guided by the principles of her social teachings: "The Church proclaims that human life is sacred and that the dignity if the human person is the foundation of a moral vision for the society.: Again, the Church teaches that the person is not only sacred but also social. Hence, her call to family, community, and participation. Thus, marriage and the family are the central social institutions that must be supported and strengthened, not undermined.
The Activities of FHL Unit
Hosting and coordinating annual meetings of the diocesan coordinators of family and human life
Coordinating national and international conferences on marriage, family, and human life.
Providing technical assistance for diocesan coordinators and religious congregations
Participating in advocacy mission and policy dialogue with the government and development partners.
...Love & Life...
Roles / Goals of the Unit
The Roles of Family and Human Life Unit include, among others:
- The primary goal of this Unit is to develop initiatives for building strong and healthy families.
- To provide diocesan and provincial coordinators with the right tools for their work of promoting family values and respect for the dignity of human person.
- To represent the Catholic Church at relevant Meetings and Conferences organized by the government and non-government organisations on issues of family and human life.
- Develop materials for promoting human life and family values and use them for advocacy purposes with relevant authorities
- To create awareness among policy makers and stakeholders on matters concerning life and family values and use them for advocacy purposes with relevant authorities.
- To maintain link with pro-life groups within and outside the Church.
- Give Talks and Conferences on Family and Life to groups and societies within the Church
- And any other relevant issues...
Hi, I'm Sr. Cor Jesu Maria...
Sr Cor Jesu Maria is a religious sister. She is a member of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy. She holds Ph. D in Moral Theology, and has both published and unpublished works dwelling on issues pertaining to “Child Abuse”, “Quality and Holistic Education“, ‘The Family” and “Christian Morality and African Social Values“, to mention a few. She is a strong pro-life advocator, child/youth formator, marriage counsellor, and researcher on global ethical issues, particularly on family, child development and Catechesis.
Currently, she is the secretary to the Family and Human Life unit, in the Department of Church and Society, of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria. She is available for Talks and Presentations on issues about human life, human sexuality, marriage and family.
