News report: The Catholic church is telling Africans not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through with the HIV virus can pass, putting thousands of people at risk for infection.

That makes me absolutely furious. Because the church doesn't believe in contraception, it is putting thousands of people at risk, encouraging the spread of HIV in a place where HIV is already so prevalent. It's a joke that they argue for the sanctity of all life when they are actively encouraging all of this needless death among innocent people.

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"In Kenya - where an estimated 20% of people have the HIV virus - the church condemns condoms for promoting promiscuity and repeats the claim about permeability. The archbishop of Nairobi, Raphael Ndingi Nzeki, said: "Aids... has grown so fast because of the availability of condoms."

Sex and the Holy City includes a Catholic nun advising her HIV-infected choirmaster against using condoms with his wife because "the virus can pass through".

In Lwak, near Lake Victoria, the director of an Aids testing centre says he cannot distribute condoms because of church opposition. Gordon Wambi told the programme: "Some priests have even been saying that condoms are laced with HIV/Aids."

Panorama found the claims about permeable condoms repeated by Catholics as far apart as Asia and Latin America. "