In today's episode, Monica Gatsi and Veronica Chawasemerwa, long-time HLI missionaries working in Zimbabwe, join us to discuss their mission to bring chastity education to youth in rural villages.

Zimbabwe’s youth are increasingly targeted by well-funded Western organizations that offer humanitarian aid—such as textbooks, clean water, and food—while simultaneously promoting contraception, abortion, and anti-family ideologies. We discuss how poverty forces schools to accept aid with strings attached, even when teachers and parents recognize the moral harm.

Monica and Veronica share firsthand stories of walking miles—sometimes crossing rivers—to reach remote villages. Through faith-based, science-grounded education, they are helping students rediscover the sanctity of life, African cultural values, and the dignity of the human person from conception to natural death.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why chastity education is urgently needed in Zimbabwe
• How foreign aid is often tied to abortion and contraception messaging
• What students actually believe about abortion and fetal development
• How faith, science, and African culture work together to defend life
• Stories of crisis pregnancy support and lives saved through compassion
• Why teachers are asking for chastity education every week

This conversation is a moving look at what it means to live a Culture of Life in some of the world’s most underserved communities—and how your support can make a global impact.

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Fr. Shenan Boquet discusses China’s severe birth rate crisis and why efforts to reverse population decline are failing. Drawing from decades of pro-life work, Fr. Boquet connects China’s demographic collapse to deep cultural, moral, and structural issues also seen across Western nations.

The conversation explores the legacy of China’s one-child policy, the rise of IVF as a proposed “solution” to infertility and low birth rates, and the shared misconceptions driving U.S. and Chinese policymakers.

Fr. Boquet argues that technological fixes and financial incentives cannot solve what is fundamentally a cultural and moral crisis rooted in the loss of a correct understanding of marriage, family, and human dignity.

Topics Include:

• How China’s One-Child Policy, forced abortions, sterilizations, and neighbor-surveillance culture created a lasting anti-child mindset
• Why government “solutions” (including financial incentives, tax breaks, vouchers, and subsidized IVF) aren’t increasing birth rates
• How China and the U.S. are following the same failing playbook despite very different histories
• The growing IVF industry: moral issues, commodification of children, embryo destruction, and sex-selection
• President Trump’s 2025 IVF executive orders and what they mean for families
• Why restorative reproductive medicine, not IVF, is the ethical and effective path for couples with infertility
• How fear, secularism, delayed marriage, and the contraceptive mentality drive low birth rates in the West
• What the Church teaches about marriage, fertility, openness to life, and the rights of children
• What governments can do to support families (subsidiarity, lowering cost of living, protecting marriage)
• Why evangelization, catechesis, and authentic family culture are the real long-term solutions

If you want to understand why global birth rates are collapsing — and how to renew a true culture of life — this episode is essential.

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In this episode, Austin Peck joins us to unpack his conversion to the Catholic faith, his reflections on truth, culture, and modernity, and the new project from the creators of Mass of the Ages entitled Discover Tradition.

Austin Peck shares how a 15-year search for truth led him from evangelical Protestantism into the Catholic Church. He describes filming Holy Week in Spain, where Catholic tradition is “woven into the culture” through ancient confraternities, dramatic processions, penitential practices, and stunning sacred art.

Peck also speaks candidly about the crisis of modernity, the loss of rootedness among American Catholics, and the temptation to embrace individualism over objective truth. Peck argues that without a return to the sacramental life and authentic tradition, both Europe and America will lose their cultural foundations.

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In today’s Thanksgiving episode, Michelle Francis, HLI's Mission Network Manager, joins us for a powerful look back at global pro-life wins in 2025.

Michelle shares firsthand updates from HLI missionaries across Africa, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Ukraine, highlighting major achievements in chastity education, seminary formation, crisis pregnancy support, and intergovernmental advocacy

Key Topics Covered:

• Expansion of chastity and character-formation programs across Africa
• Personal stories, including a young Rwandan mother who chose life for her twins
• Updates from Genia in Kyiv, who continues pro-life outreach during active bombings
• Ten-month educational training, strengthening local pro-life leadership in Latin America
• The East Africa Community’s sweeping pro-abortion bill
• Canada-funded abortion legislation in Togo

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Dr. Ligaya Acosta, HLI's Regional Director for Asia and Oceania, discusses the growing push to legalize divorce in the Philippines.

Right now, the Philippines is facing immense pressure from Western governments, foreign-funded NGOs, and pro-divorce activists to legalize divorce. On this episode, Dr. Ligaya Acosta explains why the Filipino people overwhelmingly reject divorce, how outside money drives the agenda, and what’s really happening inside the nation’s political system.

Dr. Ligaya Acosta also shares a deeply personal and unexpected testimony about the struggles in her own marriage, how she and her husband overcame a period of darkness, and why those experiences now allow her to accompany couples with authentic compassion. Her story reveals the profound spiritual battle underlying attacks on marriage and family.

Topics in this episode:

• Why the Philippines has resisted divorce for decades
• Foreign influence and NGO funding behind the divorce movement
• Cultural, religious, and historical reasons Filipinos protect marriage
• How divorce harms children, families, and society
• Dr. Acosta’s powerful marriage testimony and spiritual warfare experience
• Why marriage preparation for young people is urgently needed
• How Human Life International works with legislators, clergy, and families

If you want to understand the cultural, political, and spiritual forces surrounding the divorce debate—and hear a moving firsthand story of marital healing—this episode is essential.

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Fr. Francesco Giordano, Regional Director for Human Life International in Europe, discusses Pope Leo’s papacy, his unique global background, and what his leadership means for the Catholic Church, life, and family in today’s divided world.

Fr. Giordano shares touching stories of his encounters with Pope Leo—both as a cardinal and as pope—and reflects on his humility, attentiveness, and deep understanding of the Church’s global mission.

Key Topics Discussed:

• Fr. Giordano’s first meeting with Pope Leo in Rome
• The importance of prudence and patience in papal leadership
• How Pope Leo bridges cultures: American, Latin American, and European
• The role of truth and faith in achieving authentic Christian unity
• How the laity can live out their faith in times of crisis
• The meaning of hope during a divided era in Church and society

This episode offers a rare glimpse into the spiritual insights of a priest serving at the heart of the Church. Whether you’re a Catholic seeking renewal or simply curious about the future of the papacy, Fr. Giordano’s reflections will inspire you to live out a culture of life, faith, and hope.

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In this powerful episode, Mario Rojas, HLI's Regional Director for Latin America, discusses a stunning real-world case of censorship and faith under fire.

Earlier this year, one of HLI's missionaries in Latin America was accused of “hate speech” simply for giving a pro-life talk on authentic sexual education — one that promotes abstinence before marriage and respect for life. Mario shares how radical feminist groups tried to silence the message, how the Church and legal experts stood firm, and how the case was ultimately dismissed.

Hear firsthand how the pro-life movement continues to grow across Latin America through missionary outreach and online education.

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In this episode, Fr. Shenan Boquet unpacks the Catholic understanding of spiritual warfare—the ongoing struggle between good and evil that every believer faces.

Drawing on Scripture, the saints, and his global pro-life mission experience, Fr. Boquet explains how the devil attacks individuals, marriages, and the Church—and how to stand firm through prayer, confession, and the Eucharist.

Key Topics:

• Definition and meaning of spiritual warfare
• Understanding temptations as spiritual attacks
• Common misconceptions about the devil
• How to recognize and resist spiritual manipulation
• Vigilance in prayer, confession, and daily virtue
• Spiritual warfare in the pro-life mission field
• Protecting your marriage, family, and home from evil
• How prayer, sacraments, and Scripture fortify believers
• Practical spiritual disciplines for daily life
• The ultimate victory of Christ over evil

Scripture passages to meditate on:

- The Apostle Paul tells us clearly in 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, “Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh.”

- Mark 5:1–20 recounts the exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac, a dramatic episode in which Jesus asserts power over a "legion" of unclean spirits.

- Luke 10:18 records Jesus’ declaration: “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven,” symbolizing the eschatological victory of divine authority over evil.

- The Apostle Paul, particularly in Ephesians 6:12, frames the Christian life as an ongoing battle "not against flesh and blood" but against "spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms," providing theological scaffolding for subsequent teachings on demonic opposition.