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The study focused on growing population, media coverage and opinion of the different religions about population control. The objective of the study was to analyze the different religions stance about birth and population control, and to examine the different Newspapers coverage about this issue through content analysis, based these suggestions also recommended for population control department for effective awareness campaigns to control the increasing population. The study was qualitative in nature, therefore, content analysis was used to analysis the public service announcements of newspaper regarding population control, as well as semi-structured interviews, were conducted with different religious scholars to know the stance of different religions about population control. After the content analysis of the newspapers and taking stance of religious scholar, it was concluded that the main focus of the newspapers PSAs was to change the mindset of common people about increasing population and in this regard prominent religious personalities were used as opinion leader in the PSAs to influence people, on the other side through interviews, it is revealed that every religion's teachings were in the favor of to control the birth and an increase in population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]