News Release:

CONTACT: Larry Jacobs, Vice President, 1-815-964-5819, Contact: media

ROCKFORD, IL, USA, Jan. 20, 2004 – The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society announced the availability of online registration for the World Congress of Families III and released a preliminary program for the event.

The Howard Center For Family, Religion, and Society, The World Family Policy Center, Family and Society, and The Family Network are pleased to invite all people eager to sustain and reinforce the natural family to join us in Mexico City for The World Congress of Families III. Our purposes are to generate international understanding of the current status of the family and to develop programs to strengthen it. Pro-family leaders of the world, scholars, clergy, politicians and families of all faiths and nationalities, and men and women of good will, will unite in Mexico City to celebrate the Natural Family. The context of our celebration is the 10th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family. We will seek to present a common agenda to promote, before all represented countries and the United Nations, the integral development of men and women from a family worldview.

 

Leaders from the following organizations helped plan the WCF III:

The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, Rockford, IL 

Family Network [Red Familia], Mexico City

Family & Society [Familia e Sociedad], Mexico City

The World Family Policy Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, CO

Population Research Institute, Front Royal, VA

United Families International, Mesa, AZ

The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, New York, NY

The Latin America Alliance for the Family, Venezuela

The Family Research Council, Center for Human Life and Bioethics

The Church of God, Center for Family Ministries, Cleveland, TN

The Jewish Center, Tamarack, FL

Concerned Women for America, Beverly LaHaye Institute, Washington, DC

The Australian Family Association, Melbourne

The Civic Institute, The Czech Republic

The Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Southern Baptist Convention

Real Women of Canada Endeavor Forum, Australia

Cardinal Renato Martino: President, del Consejo Pontificio Justicia y Paz, The Vatican

Gary Becker, PhD (USA): Professor of Economics, University of Chicago. Nobel Prize in Economics, 1992

Bernardo Kliksberg, PhD (Argentina): General Coordinator, Iniciativa Interamericana de Capital Social, Ética y Desarrollo, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)

Christine de Vollmer (Venezuela): President, Latin-American Alliance for the Family (ALAFA)

Wade Horn (USA): Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services, US Government

Rabbi Daniel Lapin: President, Toward Tradition

Ana Teresa Aranda (Mexico): General Director, Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia (DIF)

Allan C. Carlson, PhD (USA): President, The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society

Bernardo Fernández del Castillo (Mexico): President, Familias y Sociedad. Former Honorary President, Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados

Craig Cardon (USA): President, United Families International

Don Lorenzo Servitje (Mexico): Founder and Honorary President, Grupo Industrial Bimbo

Fenny Tatad (Philippines): President, Women of Asia for Development and Enterprise

Fernando Milanes (Mexico): Executive President, World Congress of Families III. General Coordinator, Red Familia. Businessman

Jesus Hernandez (Mexico): President, Chapter Mexico, World Congress of Families III. Founder and Advisor, Familias y Sociedad

Marcos Witt (USA): Christian leader. Founder, Producciones Canzion. Grammy Latin Award

Mokhtar Lamani (Morocco): Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Organization of Islamic Countries at the United Nations

Richard Wilkins (USA): J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University

William L. Saunders, Jr. (USA): Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Human Life and Bioethics, Family Research Council.

George W. Bush (USA): President, United States of America

Vicente Fox Quesada (Mexico): President, Mexico

Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo (Colombia): President, Consejo Pontificio para la Familia

Dana Scallon (Ireland): Member, European Parliament

Janet Museveni: First Lady of Uganda

Paige Patterson: President, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Rocco Buttiglione, PhD (Italy): Italian Minister of European Affaire · Fernando Montes (Chile): Rector, Universidad Padre Hurtado

Francisco Tatad (Philippines): Former Majority Leader, The Philippine Senate

Patrick Fagan (Ireland): Fitzgerald Fellow in Family and Cultural Issues, Heritage Foundation

Ruben Kaztman (Uruguay): National Coordinator, Project Latin American Urbanization in the Late Twenty Century. Texas University/ Princeton University/ Sponsored by Mellon Foundation

Vicente Oltra Climent: President, Instituto de Consultores de Dirección. Frmr. Gen. Mgr., Lladró

Vladimir Palko (Slovakia): Minister of Interior