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5/06/2006
World Congress of Families IV International Planning Committee Meets with Poland's Prime Minister in Warsaw ROCKFORD, Ill., USA, May 4 /Christian Newswire/ -- The International Planning Committee for World Congress of Families IV will meet in Warsaw, Poland on May 5-7, 2006. The International Planning Committee is expected to meet with Poland’s Prime Minister, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and cabinet members of the Polish government, representatives of the Catholic Church and other religious groups in Poland, and leaders of the Polish pro-life and family movements. Planning committee participants will include representatives of pro-family organizations in Poland, the U.S., Russia, Mexico, Austria, Germany, France, Kenya, Spain and Qatar. The meeting will focus on plans for the fourth World Congress of Families (WCF IV), in Warsaw, May 11- 13, 2007, including program, speakers and invitees. The planning committee will also discuss promotion plans, in Poland and Eastern Europe as well as globally. There have been three World Congresses to date – WCF I, Prague (1999), WCF II, Geneva (1999) and WCF III, Mexico City (2004). The Mexico City Congress was attended by more than 3,200 delegates from 75 countries. Speakers at past Congresses have included Martha Fox (first lady of Mexico), Cardinal Alfonso Trujillo (head of the Pontifical Council for the Family), Madame Jehan Sadat (widow of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat), Ellen Sauerbrey (U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations) and Rocco Buttiglione (Italian Minister for European Affairs). The World Congress of Families was founded in 1997 by Dr. Allan Carlson, president of the Howard Center for Family Religion and Society. For more information, visit the Congress website – www.worldcongress.org – or call 815-964-5819. The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society is an independent, non-profit research and education center that strives to be the leading source of fresh ideas and new strategies for affirmation and defense of the natural family, both nationally and globally. The Howard Center is also the founder and organizer of the World Congress of Families project which unites people of goodwill who recognize that the family is the fundamental unit of society and coordinates the efforts of pro-family groups from more the 60 countries worldwide.
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