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During Wednesday’s Half-Day Face the Truth tour there were at least two known saves when women seeing the photographs of aborted babies talked with pro-lifers and decided not to have their planned abortions.
Join us for the last Face the Truth Half-Day tour of 2003 on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Meet at 8:00 a.m. at Adams and Wacker. Second stop is Daley Plaza at 10:00 a.m. until noon.
Our hat is off to eighty stalwarts who showed up Saturday for the protest, picket, prayer vigil and counseling at Albany abortion mill on Elston. At least one baby was saved when a couple saw the Baby Malachi picture and stopped to talk with our counselors. There were as many as three other saves that we know about.
NOTE: This article has been moved to the Action News section of the site, except the photos below.
A large crowd braved chill and drizzle to stand up for life at Albany abortion mill [Photo by EJS]
Our Lady of the New Millennium
Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 22-23, the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants will hold a 24-hour prayer vigil featuring the 33-foot-tall statue of Our Lady of the New Millennium owned by Mrs. Francine Demma of the Archdiocese of Chicago. The vigil begins with Mass at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22 with Bishop Raymond Goedert at the Knanaya Center (map) just north of Albany, and ends with Mass at 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 23.
The vigil will feature the Rosary, the Way of the Cross, Hymns, meditation and other prayers as pro-life Christians from all around Chicagoland come together to pray for an end to abortion. Non-Catholics are warmly invited to participate, finding in Mary the biblical model for motherhood.
The Knanaya Center and nearby Women’s Center will be open for bathroom breaks and warming up, plus a rented camper and snacks for those on the night-watch. For more information on the vigil or the regular schedule of prayer and counseling at Albany, call Julie McCreevy at 773-777-5303.
If you read this Action News Hotline before Saturday morning join us at 9 a.m. in front of Albany Abortion Mill to protest this Death Camp that has been operating in Chicago for thirty years.
Formerly on Irving Park Road, the mill moved into a fortress-like building in the 1980s to continue its grizzly business. By now tens of thousands of babies have been murdered within its walls, and while we pray at this mill constantly, it is important that from time to time we wake up the neighborhood to the evil that is going on there.
I have been given a third opportunity to see the two-hour version of Mel Gibson’s controversial new film, The Passion, and this time I’m dropping everything and going to see it. I will have a full report on my reaction on Friday.
The first time I was invited I was out on a Face the Truth tour and couldn’t be reached. The second time I was invited I had made arrangements to moderate a discussion at Franciscan University in Steubenville and couldn’t go. This time I’m using some mileage plus, staying at a cheap hotel in Washington and going to view the film and then stay for an hour-long discussion afterwards.
Detail of our flyer for the Festival. Click on image to see it in full size.
This past weekend the Pro-Life Action League participated in the Archdiocese of Chicago‘s Festival of Faith on Navy Pier with three different booths in the exhibition area. Besides the main League booth, our Helpers of God’s Precious Infants and Generations for Life branches had booths at the Festival.
Tuesday is Veterans Day. Some of us can still remember the silence that accompanied the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month each November. We’d stand by our desks for one-minute of silent prayer to commemorate the Armistice that ended The Great War, which turned out to be World War I, since a bigger war, World War II, followed by the time we got to High School.
ABC’s Nightline news program is scheduled to do a feature on abortion Thursday, Nov. 13, that will include coverage of sidewalk counseling outside a late term abortion clinic in Florida. Tune in at 11:35 p.m. Eastern (10:35 p.m. Central). After watching, e-mail Nightline with your reactions.
Note: Earlier we said the show was tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 11. The show was rescheduled.
Some years ago Tom Marzen, pro-life friend and attorney, pointed out that the story of “Hanzel and Gretel” was actually a story about witch-midwives who would perform abortions, on rich or poor, for a price. Her little gingerbread cottage in the forest was the abortion mill. The fence made of children symbolized all the children she had killed in abortion.