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NFP Awareness Week Press Release Local Information (2018)
NFP Awareness Week Press Release Local Information, July 22, 2018
The following press release provides general information about the USCCB’s national campaign to raise awareness about Natural Family Planning methods. It includes simple information about NFP and provides space for information about local NFP events and classes. Please insert your information where indicated.
[NAME OF CITY]: “Generations of Love: Humanae vitae (1968-2018)” is the theme of this year’s Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, a national educational campaign of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to celebrate God’s vision for marriage and promote the methods of Natural Family Planning.
Natural Family Planning (NFP) is a general title for ethical, natural, safe and effective methods for both achieving and avoiding pregnancy in marriage. NFP methods teach couples how to observe and interpret the wife’s signs of fertility and infertility. In the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, NFP methods “respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them and favor the education of an authentic freedom.” (CCC, no. 2370)