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Warsaw 2007: Planning Meeting • Poland

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Warsaw Planning Meeting for the World Congress of Families IV MAY 5-7, 2006 • Warsaw, Poland

International pro-family leaders met May 5-7, 2006 in Warsaw, Poland to articulate details for next spring’s World Congress of Families IV. With twenty five diverse international participants from Russia to the USA and twenty five Polish representatives much was accomplished. The event will be held at the Palace of Culture and Science, the tallest building in Poland. The World Congress of Families is an assembly of many national, ethnic, cultural, social and religious communities, to affirm that the natural human family is established by the Creator and essential to good society. It will be held May 11-13 in Warsaw, Poland.

Participants:

Antonov, Anatoli Moscow Lomonosov State University (Russia)

Birchfield, Peggy Religious Freedom Coalition (USA)

Carlson, Allan The Howard Center (USA)

Carriker, Charles The International Campaign for the Family (USA)

Clark, Douglas United Families International (USA)

Crouse, Janice Concerned Women for America (USA)

Fagan, Patrick The Heritage Foundation (USA)

Feder, Don Don Feder Associates (USA)

Golobiewski, Maciej Intern from Family Research Council (Poland)

Hassan, Farooq Pakistan Family Forum (Pakistan)

Hernandez, Marie-Claire Familias y Sociedad (Mexico)

Jacobs, Larry The Howard Center (USA)

Kloiber, Thomas Catholic Family Association of Austria (Austria) Liminski, Juergen Writer and Journalist (Germany)

Liminski, Martine Institut für Demographie, Allgemeinwohl und Familie (Germany)

Mutura, Raymond Voice of the Family in Africa (Kenya)

Medkov, Victor Moscow Lomonosov State University (Russia)

Mero, Paul The ALS Foundation (USA)

Pederson, Patrice The Family Caucus (USA)

Roux, Caroline Alliance for the Right to Life (France)

Ruse, Austin Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (USA)

Saunders, William Family Research Council (USA)

Velarde, Lola European Network Institute for Family Policies (Spain)

Wilcox, Brad University of Virginia – Sociology Dept. (USA)

Wilkins, Richard Doha Intl. Research Inst. for Family & Development (Qatar)

Polish Participants:

Bilicki Tomasz Polska Federacja Ruchow Obrony Zycia

Bratkowska LudmilaKatolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski

Chojnacka Elzbieta Krajowy Osrodek Duszpasterstwa Rodzin

Czudowska Dorota Polskie Forum ds. Walki z Rakiem Piersi Europa Donna

Golab Michal INER

Golab Elzbieta INER

Halska Maria Stowarzyszenie Edukacja i Media

Jaskowska Anna Stowarzyszenie Rodzin Katolickich

O. Joniec Joniec SP Stowarzyszenie Parafiada

Kapera Kazimierz Polska Federacja Stowarzyszen Rodzin Katolickich

Kolupa Maria Polski Zwiazek Kobiet Katolickich

Kowalewska Ewa Polska Federacja Ruchow Obrony Zycia

Kowalewski Lech Polska Federacja Ruchow Obrony Zycia

Matuszak Sylwia Fundacja Pomoc Rodzinie

Forum Kobiet Polskich

Janusz PrucnalPrzewodniczacy Komisji Rodziny Rady m. Olsztyna

Rafalska Elzbieta Senator RP

O. Rebacz Andrzej Krajowy Osrodek Duszpasterstwa Rodzin KEP

Prof. Rys Maria Uniwersytet Kardynala Stefana Wyszynskiego

Soltyk Grazyna Przewodniczaca Komisji Kultury i Promocji Rady m.st. Warszawa

Szymanski Antoni Senator RP

Ks. Szymczak JaroslawUniwersytet Kardynala Stefana Wyszynskiego

Tomaszewska Ewa Senator RP

Wilczek Maria Polski Zwiazek Kobiet Katolickich

Walaszczyk MalgorzataDuszpasterstwo Rodzin Diec. Warszawsko-Praskiej

Zwierzynski KrzysztofCivitas Christiana

Kozak Sylwester Asystent Posla na Sejm RP

ks. Kaniewski Stanislaw Centrum Sluzby Rodzinie

Vierling Catherine Secretary - European Forum For Human Rights and the Family

Members of the European planning meeting held May 5-7, 2006 in Warsaw, Poland.		Allan Carlson presents Mariusz Blaszczak, Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Poland, with his book “The American Way.”

Allan Carlson, president of The Howard Center and General Secretariat for the World Congress of Families.		Mariusz Blaszczak addresses an assembly of WCFIV planning team members at a meeting in the Prime Minister’s office. Allan Carlson seated left and Senator Antoni Syzmanski seated right.

Planning team members tour the hall circling the Main Congress Hall of the Palace of Culture and Science.		World Congress of Families IV Planning team at the Polish Institute for Studies on the Family.

Several Polish planning meeting participants: seated left, Catherine Vierling seated center, and Caroline Roux seated right.		Catherine Vierling, and Caroline Roux, Peggy Birchfield.

Larry Jacobs (US), Marie Claire Hernandez (Mexico), Catherine Vierling (European Parliament Staff), and others gather at Archbishop Kazimierz Majdanski’s office.		Archbishop Majdanski receives a gift from Allan Carlson.

International leaders in the pro-family movement review planning material for WCFIV.		World Congress of Families IV Planning Meeting session held at the Catholic Diocese offices.

Patrice Pederson with The Family Caucus at the Warsaw Planning Meeting.		Allan Carlson of The Howard Center, and Pat Fagan of the Heritage Foundation.

Raymond Mutura from Voice of the Family (Kenya).		Bill Saunders, Austin Ruse, Brad Wilcox, Caroline Roux, and Lola Velarde.

Don Feder, Communications Director for the World Congress of Families IV.		Peggy Birchfield with the Religious Freedom Coalition and Janice Crouse with Concerned Women for America in Warsaw.

Farooq Hassan (red shirt, center) of the Pakistan Family Forum and other at a planning dinner in Warsaw.		Pat Fagan with daughter of Austin and Cathy Ruse.

Caroline Roux and others at the World Congress of Families Planning Meeting dinner.		Pat Fagan and Lola Velarde with Baby Ruse.

Main congress hall where the 2007 World Congress of Families will be held.		Meeting at the Polish Prime Minister’s Office

Larry Jacobs, vice-president of The Howard Center, and Janice Crouse, Senior Fellow of Concerned Women for America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute.		Allan Carlson addresses the planning meeting participants in the Prime Minister of Poland’s office.

Bill Saunders and Richard Wilkins.		Marie Claire Hernandez of Familias y Sociedad (Mexico), Patrice Pederson of the The Family Caucus (USA), and Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America (USA).

Palace of Culture and Science, location for the upcoming World Congress of Families IV.		Center stage of the Main Congress Hall of the Palace of Culture and Science.

European Planning Meeting participants.		Austin Ruse of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (USA) and Brad Wilcox of the University of Virginia.

Maciej Golobiewski and Peggy Birchfield.		The main entrance hall to the Palace of Culture and Science.

The group tours a room in the Palace of Culture and Science.