Thousands Attend Rome's 9th Annual March for Life

Stephen Kokx : May 20, 2019
LifeSiteNews.com

In a pre-recorded video message, pro-life actor Eduardo Verastegui encouraged participants to keep fighting for the unborn.

(Rome, Italy) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Thousands of joy-filled pro-lifers young and old from across the world took part in the Rome March for Life today beneath a sunny sky and behind Catholic Cardinal Raymond Burke, who lead the prayerful, song-filled demonstration through the busy streets of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Dutch Cardinal Willem Eijk was also present at the event's outset. (Image credit: Stephen Kokx/LifeSiteNews)

Organized by Virginia Coda Nunziante, president of the Associazione Famiglia Domani, and her team of volunteers, this year's March marked the ninth such undertaking. Nunziante told LifeSite in an interview recently that abortion is "the blood sacrifice that the devil asks of today's societies" and that "when you try to hinder, reduce or fight it, the devil unleashes even more violent campaigns in order not to lose ground."

Despite a rainy start to the day, event organizers couldn't have asked for a more perfect setting. The sun's emergence around noon seemed to energize the hundreds of priests and women religious as well as the many others who with loud, though always cheerful, chants made their opposition to the slaughter of unborn children known on Rome's historic roads... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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