Tooley, Vicari Speak at World Congress of Families IX in Salt Lake City

on October 28, 2015

Institute on Religion & Democracy Media Advisory
October 28, 2015
Contact: Jeff Walton office: 202-682-4131, cell: 202-413-5639, e-mail: jwalton@TheIRD.org

“Each individual as a creature of God knows that we are all part of a much broader transcendent reality that is rooted in family and marriage as part of divine creation.”
-Mark Tooley, IRD President

Who: IRD President Mark Tooley, Evangelical Action Program Director Chelsen Vicari
What: Ninth World Congress of Families
When: October 27-30
Where: Grand America Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah

Washington, DC—More than 3,000 pro-family advocates have gathered in Salt Lake City, Utah for the largest gathering of its kind in the world. The ninth World Congress of Families will unite religious leaders, scholars, and pro-family advocates to affirm, defend, and celebrate the natural family as the fundamental unit of society.

IRD’s Evangelical Action Director Chelsen Vicari spoke on the conference’s opening day as part of a panel examining “The Beneficial and Harmful Influences of Feminism”. IRD President Mark Tooley will speak on the morning of Thursday, October 29 as part of a plenary panel addressing “Personal, Family and Cultural Casualties from the Decline of Faith”. Both are available for interviews.

IRD President Mark Tooley commented:

“IRD is committed to upholding marriage and family as taught in universal Christian teaching and confirmed in natural law as found in all cultures.

“Western secularism pretends we are all only autonomous individuals making choices for self-empowerment. But each individual as a creature of God knows that we are all part of a much broader transcendent reality that is rooted in family and marriage as part of divine creation.”

Evangelical Action Program Director Chelsen Vicari commented:

“Families are broken, the meaning of marriage is dismantled, and unborn life is dismembered and sold for profit. The world appears to be on a fast track towards self-destruction, but the Church knows there is one solution.

“The body of Christ represents many different national, ethnic, cultural, and social communities uniquely positioned to demonstrate the love and hope of Jesus Christ, but let us remember that our ministries start in our own homes. If we expect the next generation, your children and grandchildren, to raise up healthy families grounded in traditional Christian teaching, then we must teach them by example. As the World Congress of Families IX motto proclaims, ‘Family: The promise begins with me.'”

The Institute on Religion & Democracy works to reaffirm the church’s biblical and historical teachings, strengthen and reform its role in public life, protect religious freedom, and renew democracy at home and abroad.

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