Family Life International (New Zealand)
- Family Life International (New Zealand)
Family Life International is a Catholic organisation dedicated to educating, advocating and carrying out practical work in support of life, faith and family.
They do this by providing education and formation events and resources; by advocating for life, faith and family issues in the New Zealand media; and by running crisis-pregnancy centres, offering post-abortion counselling and training couples in Natural Fertility Regulation.
Their aim is to "promote the full dignity and wonder of human life (from the moment of natural conception to the moment of natural death), of human sexuality, of marriage and family, and to inform and protect kiwi women and their babies from the harm of abortion".
In April 1992 when FLI Director Colleen Bayer attended a pro-life/family conference in Ottawa, Canada. There she met Fr Paul Marx OSB, PhD - the great “Apostle for Life” (so named by John Paul II). Colleen was so greatly inspired by the apostolic nature of Father Marx’s defense of life, faith and family, that she established Family Life International in New Zealand during September 1992, in the same spirit of Father Marx's calling.
In 2007 the organisation opened a house for pregnant women in Christchurch, 'The John Paul II Centre for Life'.
External links
* [http://www.fli.org.nz/ Official Website]
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