March for Life

America’s Orthodox Christians to march for life next year in Washington, DC

Orthodox clerics and faithful from America shall unite again to participate in the Washington, DC 2021 March for Life, as they did in previous years. The pro-life organization Orthodox Christians for Life and Orthodox Christian Network, the agency of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America (ACOB-US), have already created…

Oct 19, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

The March for Life 2020 “For Life. For Parents. For Children” gets online on May 17

This year, the March for Life Romania and the Republic of Moldova, which has the theme “For Life. For Parents. For Children”, gets online. Pandemic restrictions determined organizers to reschedule it on May 17, the National Family Day in Romania. As public gathering restrictions will continue after the state of emergency, this edition will turn…

May 7, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

March declared Month “For life, for parents, for children” in Romania and Republic of Moldova

Hundreds of pro-life events will be held throughout Romania and Republic of Moldova this March, culminating in the March for Life to be held on March 28. March has been declared a month “For life, for parents, for children,” according to the Romania for Life organization. Events will be held at more than 900 localities…

Jan 28, 2020Iulian Dumitraşcu

50,000 march to end abortion in Slovakia

50,000 Slovaks gathered in the European country’s capital of Bratislava this weekend to call for an end to legal abortion, Life Site reports. The predominantly-Catholic country currently allows abortions for any reason up to 12 weeks, and abortions deemed to be health-related up to 24 weeks. There were 10,082 abortions reported in 2017, compared with 57,969 births.…

Sep 25, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

Nearly 2 million attend March for Life in Argentina

Nearly two million people marched on Saturday in Pope Francis’s native land of Argentina in pro-life demonstrations dedicated to defending the life of the unborn, and offering solutions to mothers in crisis pregnancies, Crux Now reports. Although Catholic bishops, evangelical pastors, and Jewish and Islamic leaders participated, they were not involved in the organization of…

Mar 28, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

Photo Gallery | March for life 2019 in Bucharest

Thousands of people took the streets on Saturday, March 23, 2019, to support the rights of unborn children and of mothers in a pregnancy crisis. Photography courtesy of Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene

Mar 27, 2019Raluca-Emanuela Ene

Patriarch of Romania: The Mother of God is the Protrectress of mothers. If we continue with abortion, we will perish as a nation

During his homily on the Feast of the Annunciation, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel stressed that the Mother of God is the Protrectress of all mothers and warned that if abortions continue to take place in Romania ‘we will perish as a nation’. ‘If we, the Romanian people, continue with (performing) abortions, which sum up to…

Mar 26, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

‘Being pro life means being pro-love’, Students for Life President Eliza Clotea says in exclusive interview

A few days before the March for Life 2019, the newly-elected president of the Students for Life Association, Eliza Clotea, a senior student at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Bucharest, confessed in an exclusive interview for Basilica.ro that the most difficult part of her activity is the ‘fight against the obstacle of mentalities’.…

Mar 20, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

Hundreds of thousands join pro-life march in Washington DC

While mainstream media portrayed the 2019 March for Life as being attended by “thousands” and “tens of thousands”, a time-lapse video of the Jan. 18 event from beginning to end paints a rather different picture which suggests a much higher number, Life Site reports.  Getting an accurate count of so large a crowd would be…

Jan 22, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

In new interview Alexandra Nadane speaks about the March for Life. ‘We do not plead for a ban on abortion, but for changing our hearts’

In an interview with the Basilica News Agency, Alexandra Nadane, the young woman who has dedicated almost her entire life to the pro-life cause, spoke about the real purpose of the March for Life and about its message to today’s society. “We do not plead for a ban on abortion, but for changing people’s hearts…

Mar 22, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

VIDEO | March for Life in Bucharest draws thousands

Thousands marched for life in Bucharest on Saturday, the president of Students for Life Association, Alexandra Nadane, reports. The pro-life manifestation carried out on 25 March 2017 under the slogan Help the mother and the child! They depend on you! People of all ages marched on the streets of Bucharest carrying banners and the national flag. Young…

Mar 28, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu