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According to the organization's Web site, www.iwopf.org, coalition members include the Sisters for Life, Western New York Lawyers for Life, Human Life International, Relevant Radio, Priests for Life and Women Against the Killing and Exploitation of Unwanted Persons, known as WAKEUP.
"This is ... a grass-roots effort of groups from all over the world that we have been working with for over 15 years," said Maureen Flynn, coalition chairwoman, in a statement.
She added that the movement has grown as problems in the world have grown, "especially with terrorism and the decline of the culture of life."
Flynn said the coalition organizes prayers for world peace, works to promote pro-life issues and sets up "prayer cells" to counter global terrorism.
The coalition planned several national events in Washington, including an Oct. 8 eucharistic day of prayer at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception featuring Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life; Bobby Schindler, brother of Terry Schindler Schiavo; and evangelist Father Clement Machado, a member of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, who lives in Rome and is a frequent contributor to Vatican Radio and the Eternal Word Television Network's radio programs.
Week of prayer, fasting aimed at stopping abortion, promoting peace
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It's troglodytic, Joe, not "troglyditic." If you're going to insult Christians by comparing their views to pre-historic cave dwellers, you might at least want to spell it correctly.
Incidentally, with respect to the Schiavo case, is Klein saying the 47 Democrats in the House of Representatives who voted in favor of the Schiavo legislation hold "troglyditic (sic) religious views?" Or were they merely cowards for not standing up the "fundamentalist mullahs?" What about Senators like Harry Reid and Tom Harkin who supported intervention and helped craft the language that ultimately passed by a voice vote in the upper chamber?
Or was the Schiavo case just a wee bit more complicated than that and was something people of both parties could disagree about in good faith?
For the record, I thought Congress' intervention was a massive overreach that set a terrible precedent and raised all sorts of questions (which I discussed in an April 2005 Sun-Times column reprinted here).
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