Church considers suicide intervention

ST LUCIA

Archbishop Robert Rivas OP has expressed concern about suicides in the archdiocese and would see in what way the Church can make a bigger contribution in helping people to veer away from taking their own lives.

“Life is so precious—all human life,” he said. “I wouldn’t like to think that as a society we would think in any other way about people who find themselves in this situation, except in a compassionate way and wanting what is best for them, so that they can live the gift they have received— life from God,” the Archbishop of Castries told St Lucia Times.

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