40 Days for Life
September 24 – November 2, 2008
This fall our community will be uniting with pro-lifers across the country in the largest simultaneous pro-life mobilization in history – the nationwide 40 Days for Life campaign. This prayer effort, first held in fall 2007, continues to inspired hearts and minds to conversion, and close abortion facility doors across this country!
40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life campaign that has generated measurable lifesaving results in every community where it has been implemented. Some cities have reported as much as a 28% drop in local abortion numbers and hundreds of new people getting involved in local lifesaving ministry efforts. The 40 Days for Life campaign is made up of three key components:
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Prayer and Fasting: inviting people of faith throughout our city to join together for 40 days of fervent prayer and fasting for an end to abortion
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Peaceful Vigil: standing for life through a 40-day peaceful public witness outside the Family Planning Associates Abortion Facility on Elston just west of Cicero in Chicago
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Community Outreach: taking a positive, upbeat pro-life message to every corner of our city through media efforts, church presentations, petition drives, and public visibility
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Co-Sponsored by The Archdiocesan Respect Life Office, Pro-Life Action League, Illinois Right to Life, Couples for Christ, Knights of Columbus and other groups. Learn how you can “speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves” here in Chicago by contacting the Respect Life Office at 312-751-5355 or by visiting www.40DaysforLife.com.