WORLD CONGRESS OF FAMILIES IV ONE MONTH AWAY – STELLAR LINEUP OF SPEAKERS
April 11, 2007
For Immediate Release
For More Information, Contact: Larry Jacobs at 513-515-3685 (cell) or (815) 964-5819 or or Don Feder at
In one month, World Congress of Families IV (May 11-13) – the largest international pro-family gathering – will convene in Warsaw, Poland.
This year marks also marks our 10th anniversary. World Congress of Families I was held in Prague in 1997, followed by Congresses in Geneva (1999) and Mexico City (2004). More than 3,000 pro-family leaders, activists, scholars and parliamentarians are expected to attend World Congress of Families IV, whose theme is “Beyond Demographic Winter – The Natural Family and Springtime for Europe and the World.”
Poland’s pro-family president, Lech Kaczynski, will open the Congress, as well as serving as honorary patron of WCF IV.
A distinguished lineup of over 100 speakers – from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas – will address the Congress, including:
Allan Carlson, Founder and International Secretary of the World Congress of Families
Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, President of the Pontifical Council for The Family
Archbishop Majdanski, Founder of The Polish Institute for Studies on the Family and WWII Survivor of Dachau Concentration Camp
Phillip Longman, Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, author of “The Empty Cradle”
Paige Patterson, Past President of the Southern Baptist Convention, and President, Southwestern Theological Seminary
Tom Minnery, Senior Vice President, Focus on the Family
Ellen Sauerbrey, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration
Wade Horn, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services
Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight, Knights of Columbus (invited)
Bruce Hafen, former Dean, Brigham Young University Law School
Anna Zaborska, Member of the European Parliament for Slovakia
Christine de Marcellus Vollmer, President, Latin American Alliance for the Family
Dana Rosemary Scallon, Member of the European Parliament for Ireland.
Austin Ruse, President of Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute
Wesley J. Smith, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
Margaret Somerville, Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University
Kay Hymowitz, William E. Simon Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Margaret Ogola, Medical Director of the Cottolengo Home for Children Living With Aids, Kenya
Janice Crouse, Senior Fellow, Beverly LaHaye Institute, Concerned Women for America
Nigel Cameron, President, The Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future
Pat Fagan, Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
Bill Saunders, Human Rights Counsel, The Family Research Council
Richard Wilkins, Managing Director, Doha International Institute
John Vining, Director, Center for Family Ministries, Church of God
Don Schmierer, Founder of His Servants
Father Thomas Euteneur, President, Human Life International
Wesley J. Smith, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
Allan Carlson commented, “We are bringing together some of the best minds in the pro-family movement to strategize on how to effect a renaissance of the family in Europe and strengthen the family worldwide.”
For a complete list of speakers, go to http://www.worldcongress.pl/wyklad.php and and http://www.worldcongress.org/WCF4/wcf4.spkrs.htm . For more information on World Congress of Families IV, go to www.worldcongress.org.
To schedule an interview with Allan Carlson, please contact Larry Jacobs at 1-800-461-3113.