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Buenos Aires, Jul. 28, 2006 (CNA) - The Catholic weekly “Cristo Hoy” in Argentina has launched a prayer crusade for a mother who decided to postpone treatment for cancer in order to save the life of her ninth child. The newspaper reports that Laura Figeroa is in the terminal stage of her illness, the diagnosis is brain metastasis, considered irreversible.”  Two weeks ago, on July 12th, Figeroa gave birth to her son Pedro at only 27 weeks.  The baby weighed just 2.4 pounds and was placed immediately in intensive care, where he is struggling with kidney and heart problems. The baby’s...

Monday May 17, 2004 Pope Canonizes Gianna Molla; Secular Media at a Loss ROME, May 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In 1990, in Vancouver, a pro-life woman bought a house next to the local abortion mill and named it Gianna House. There she protested the killing going on next door and reached out to mothers in need. Cecelia von Dehn named her ministry to mothers after Gianna Beretta Molla, an Italian laywoman, a doctor and mother who sacrificed her own life to save that of her unborn child. This Sunday, Pope John Paul II canonized Gianna along with five other people....