The beliefs Christians hold about their moral responsibility for those at the beginning and the end of their lives.

Thirdly the Christian faith is also in agreement that, as a Christian, one is called by God to love one another no matter what the circumstance. "Love your neighbour.... (and) love your enemies" (Mathew 5:43).

Throughout history, Christians have exercised their belief in stewardship by giving knowledge, time, wealth and love to those in need. For example, in England, the first orphanages were founded in the middle of the 19th century by George Muller; a devout Christian. At the same time William Booth founded the Salvation Army and Hudson Taylor founded the "China inland mission" out of love for those who had never heard the Gospel. Today Christian's all over the world are making a difference to the world in which they live. Pope John Paul II lived his whole live as a paradigm of Christian living truly putting the Christian belief to practice.

Within this stewardship is a more specific stewardship towards those at the beginning and end of life and all the denominations express different interpretations of their moral responsibility for this stewardship.

Catholics have a firm pro-life opinion in that life begins at conception and ends when you die "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you" (Jeremiah 1:5). They therefore strongly believe abortion is murder and therefore wrong no matter what the circumstance "thou shalt not kill" (the Ten Commandments). Today throughout the world Catholics hold protests to express these beliefs that abortion is wrong. They also believe that because humans are made in the image of God, the human body is sacred and therefore should not be destroyed.

The Anglican response is similar in that they strongly appose abortion however they believe their can be strictly limited conditions where abortion is moral like when the Mother could die if she gives birth. "Respect your Father and Mother" (the Ten Commandments) this tells us the Mother's life is important.

For euthanasia Catholics have similar views to that of abortion. They believe only God can take away life as he gave it to us. Some people believe if one is suffering then it is better to let them die however Pope John Paul II describes this as "a disturbing perversion of mercy" (Humae Vitae).

The Anglican view on Euthanasia is that a person has a right to refuse treatment but cannot choose to die when they want. Anglicans strongly appose deliberate killing due to an overdose of treatment. Anglicans believe that only God has the power to take away life and he chooses when you die, "If God took back the breath of life, then everyone living would turn to dust again" (Job 34:14-15).

Other denominations that oppose these beliefs are pro-choice and believe the mother should choose whether or not to abort once given all the options. Many protests of "our bodies our choice" are displayed throughout the world.

In conclusion despite the differently opinionated denominations within the Church, they all believe that life is sacred, that you should love your neighbour and display stewardship to those at the beginning and end of life.