European Left Threatens World Congress of Families V

WASHINGTON, July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The anti-family left in the
Netherlands is mobilizing against World Congress of Families V (Amsterdam,
August 10-12) in ways intended to intimidate participants.

On July 1, groups organizing against the Congress held a meeting in Amsterdam.
This is just one of such meetings taking place.

The Autonomous Feminist Action calls World Congress of Families a group of
"fundamentalistic (sic.) Christians" who "will plead for going back to the
Christian traditions of traditional relationship between man and woman." WCF
is also characterized as anti-feminist, anti-abortion, homophobic and opposed
to divorce.

To illustrate its anti-family message, Feminist Action has posted a menacing
drawing of a man and a woman, with a child and a cross between them. There's a
dotted line going through the necks of the couple and a pair of scissors ready
to cut off their heads! Click here to view the illustration.

Larry Jacobs, Managing Director of the World Congress of Families, responded,
"Clearly, the social left is terrified of the Congress bringing a pro-family
message to what it considers its turf."

As for the Congress being composed of "Christian fundamentalistics," Jacobs
noted: "Allan Carlson, our international secretary, belongs to a mainline
Protestant church. WCF Communications Director Don Feder is Jewish. Speakers
at World Congress of Families V will include the Chief Rabbi of the
Netherlands, the President of the Pontifical Council on the Family, a former
President of the Southern Baptist Convention, a leader of the LDS church, and
the President of the Pakistan Family Forum."

At the time of World Congress of Families IV in Warsaw (2007), more than 100
members of the European Union Parliament signed a letter of support for the
Congress, initiated by Anna Zaborska, Chairwoman of the EU Committee for
Women's Rights and held a joint press conference held at the European
Parliament in support of the World Congress of Families. Click here for more
information.

"All these protest groups know about us is that we believe in the natural
family (as defined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights) and the
sanctity of human life from conception to natural death. We do, and we're
proud of it," Jacobs said.

"But there's more to the Congress. At World Congress of Families V, we'll be
talking about parental rights, home-schooling, preserving marriage, declining
birth rates, Internet pornography, combating trafficking in women and
children, and supporting families in the developing world, among other issues
confronting the family."

Click here for more information on World Congress of Families V. To schedule
an interview with Larry Jacobs, contact Carol Griesbach at 815-964-5819 or
media@profam.org .

The World Congress of Families (WCF) is an international network of pro-family
organizations, scholars, leaders and people of goodwill from more than 60
countries that seek to restore the natural family as the fundamental social
unit and the 'seedbed' of civil society (as found in the UN Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, 1948). The WCF was founded in 1997 by Allan
Carlson and is a project of The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society
in Rockford, Illinois (www.profam.org). To date, there have been four World
Congresses of Families - Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004) and
Warsaw, Poland (2007). A fifth World Congress of Families will be held in
Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 10-12, 2009 (www.worldcongress.nl).

SOURCE World Congress of Families

Don Feder of the World Congress of Families, +1-508-405-1337, dfeder@rcn.com