Events and Opportunities

Choices of Life will continue to expand in 2010, but TRAINEE PRESENTERS ARE URGENTLY NEEDED.

NSW and ACT — new and return visits to schools

January — Camp at Toukley, January 15 - 17 (contact brucecoleman@choicesoflife.com.au for more information)
March — Tasmania
April/May — North Coast (NSW) and Queensland
June — Annual Sydney Dinner
July — Passion4Life Walk
July/August — Riverina (NSW) and South Australia
September — Darwin
October — Victoria

There are increasing demands for the program and presenters are desperately needed. Thank you to those who are making presentations (Julie Jordan in Sydney and Sally Baird in Geelong) and those who have offered in country areas. Bruce will be in touch as he visits your area.

Please email Bruce Coleman (brucecoleman@choicesoflife.com.au) if you have a passion to save the unborn and are willing and able to be involved. A very special Thank You to Judith Bond who faithfully rings schools and successfully makes appointments across Australia.

Cherish Life Queensland Inc and a number of other pro-life/pro-family groups are holding a united "Rally For Life" at Queens Park, Cnr Elizabeth & George Sts, Brisbane City on Saturday 13th March 2010 at 2pm - 4pm.
 
Lets make this TWO THOUSAND AND TEN people for 2010!  So, 2010 for 2010!

More details to come ...

Melbourne Launch of the Benenson Society....the pro life alternative to Amnesty International 

The April 2007 decision of the International Executive of Amnesty International to adopt a pro abortion policy forced many pro life supporters to withdraw from the organization.

At the time of the decision, Cardinal Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, warned Amnesty International that it had disqualified itself as a defender of human rights. Here in Australia, Jesuit priest Father Chris Middleton, School Principal of St Aloysius College in Sydney, whose pleas to AI to resist such a policy had fallen on deaf ears, decided to give pro life opponents of the human rights abuse of prisoners of conscience, torture, kidnapping and "disappearances", an alternative to Amnesty International.  He founded the Benenson Society, named after Peter Benenson, the Catholic founder of Amnesty International.

The Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese's  Office for Justice and Peace is pleased to invite you to commemorate this International Human Rights Day with the Melbourne launch of the Benenson Society by Father Tony Kerin, Episcopal Vicar for Justice. The Society aims to provide all people with the opportunity to be involved in the promotion and defence of human rights. It  intends to lobby governments on behalf of prisoners of conscience, to work for the abolition of torture and the death penalty.

International Human Rights Day will be marked with an address by the Hon. Clovis Alidor Mwamba Member of Parliament, Congo, (in exile) journalist, author, victim of torture, campaigner for democracy, human rights and rule of law.

Thursday 10 December 2009, 2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m at the Knox Room, Thomas Carr Centre, 278 Victoria Parade Melbourne.

by Denise M Cameron for Pro Life Victoria (Inc.)