The National Pro-life
Religious Council
PRESS ADVISORY
Date: January 16, 2007
Contact: Kimberly Zenarolla, 202-494-4410
NEW CONGRESS FORCES NEW TACTICS BY
PRO-LIFERS
The National
Pro-Life Religious Council, along with representatives from many
other pro-life groups, will hold a news conference Monday
morning, January 22, 8:15 AM in the US Senate Dirksen Building,
room G-50 to discuss new legislative tactics in the face of a
pro-choice leadership in the 110th Congress.
The news
conference will immediately precede the 13th annual
National Memorial for the Pre-born and their Mothers and
Fathers, the only fully dressed pro-life worship service held in
the US Capitol complex.
“It’s a new day
in Washington and that means a new challenge for pro-lifers,”
said Rev. Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK), an Evangelical
minister and one of the founders of the Memorial event. “Christ
said we must be as clever as serpents and harmless as doves.
With pro-choice leaders in the House and Senate, we may need to
be downright snaky.”
The National
Memorial for the Pre-born and their Mothers and Fathers last
year drew an overflow crowd. The sponsoring organizations have
put out a call this year emphasizing that with staunchly
pro-abortion Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and US Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid, a strong showing is vital at both
the annual Memorial and annual March for Life that follows.
Several members
of Congress are expected to address the gathering, including
Kansas senator Sam Brownback.
Details:
Pro-Life Leadership News Conference
January 22, 2007
8:15 AM, US Senate Dirksen Building, Room G-50
(auditorium)Constitution Ave & 1 Street, NE
Washington, DC
The featured
speaker will be Fr. Frank Pavone, M.E.V., founder of the first
and only anti-abortion Catholic Order called "The Missionaries
of the Gospel of Life", which was approved by the Vatican six
months ago.
Participants:
Fr. Frank
Pavone, National Pro-Life Religious Council
Rev. Rob Schenck, National Clergy Council
Dr. Paul Schenck, National Pro-Life Action Center on Capitol
Hill
Day Gardner, Blacks for Life
Georgette Forney, Silent No More Awareness Campaign
Rev. Kirk van der Swaagh, Conservative Congregational Christian
Conference
Rev. John Brown, United Church of Christ Friends for Life
Dr. Gary Dull, Faith Baptist Ministries
Dr. Johnny Hunter, Life, Education and Resource Network
Vera Faith Lord, Alpha Omega Life – Orthodox
Bishop Craig Bates and Rev. Terry Gensemer, Charismatic
Episcopalians for Life
Pastor Clenard Howard Childress, Black Americans for Life
Rev. Ben Sheldon, Presbyterians Pro-Life
Mr. Dennis Demauro, Lutherans for Life International
Dr. John Vandenberge, Methodist Episcopal Church USA
Dr. Edwin Elliott, Reformed Presbyterian Churches
Several others to be
announced. |
