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40,000 watch Rally for Life LIVE events - message will grow to 400,000 say organisers

At least 40,000 people watched Rally for Life LIVE events this week, and organisers say they aim to grow that audience tenfold in the coming weeks given the "tremendous" success and popularity of the virtual rally.

Life Canvass, Activism, Rally/March for Life, Roadshows, Life Institute

PR: 32 local rallies to join Rally for Life 2020 online with festival of events

At least 32 local pro-life events will take place tomorrow (Saturday) as activists gather in socially distanced witnesses taking place throughout the country in support of the Rally for Life. The biggest pro-life gathering of the year, the Rally for Life, is moving online this week, with five days of events and conferences from July 1st to July 5th.

Life Canvass, Activism, Rally/March for Life, Roadshows

"We are not going away." Pro-life vigils at abortion centres share year of witness

Pro-life vigils at abortion centres around the country will continue, and are an important witness to what is now happening behind closed doors, say activists who are now marking almost a year of the vigils at abortion centres.

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Rally needs YOU to be a success in Dublin every year.

As you know, the Rally for Life will take place in Dublin EVERY year now, on the first weekend in July.

Abortion: Ireland, Abortion: North of Ireland, Life Canvass, Activism, Rally/March for Life, Roadshows

Well-known Belfast priest accuses Sinn Féin of treachery on abortion

This week well-known Belfast priest Fr Paddy McCafferty responded to Sinn Féin answer to the thousands of voters who have written to protest their support for abortion.

Life Canvass, Activism, Rally/March for Life, Roadshows, Youth Defence, Life Institute

Rally For Life Will Hear Abortion Regime Already Exposed As Fatally Flawed

Thousands of pro-life activists are expected to attend the Rally for Life in Dublin on July 6th, where speakers will hear that the abortion regime established by the government has already been exposed as being fatally flawed, and that a key role of the pro-life movement is to subject the regime to endless scrutiny.

Life Canvass, Activism, Rally/March for Life, Roadshows, Vote for Life

Pro-life candidates elected nationwide

The local elections saw a breakthrough for Aontú, who, just four months after establishing the party, saw three councillors elected - including one poll-topper in Bailieborough - and another five or six candidates come close to taking a seat.

Life Canvass, Activism, Rally/March for Life, Roadshows

Peadar Tóibín draws huge crowds to meetings to set up new party

Peadar Tóibín draws huge crowds to meetings to set up new party

Abortion: Ireland, Life Canvass, Activism, Rally/March for Life, Roadshows

Family & Life joins forces with Life Institute and others in one National Life Canvass to retain 8th

Some great news for the Life Canvass, as another leading national pro-life organisation, Family & Life, have formally come on board to make this the biggest pro-life door-to-door initiative ever seen in Ireland.

Abortion: Ireland, Abortion Politicians, Life Canvass, Activism, Rally/March for Life, Roadshows

Pro-life activists express concern at Gardai seizing materials as referendum campaigns hots up

Pro-life activists have said that they are gravely concerned about implications for a free and fair debate ahead of the expected abortion referendum after Gardai seized pro-life materials in Kilkenny City last Saturday. The Save the 8th pro-life roadshow was visiting the city on the last day of its extended tour, which had already been to 17 towns and cities throughout Ireland without incidence. However, just 10 minutes into the information event, Garda detectives arrived and threatened arrest if photographs of babies who had been aborted were not removed from display.

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LISTEN and READ: Major media coverage of Youth Defence’s Save the 8th Roadshow

Our nationwide Save the 8th Roadshow received significant media attention this year, with local newspaper and radio covering the Roadshow in most towns and cities. You can read and listen to some of those media interviews below. Well done to all the pro-life volunteers who took part in media engagements over the last three weeks.

Abortion: Ireland, Life Canvass, Activism, Rally/March for Life, Roadshows

LISTEN: Rebecca talks to KCLR about Gardai seizing pro-life boards

LISTEN: “We weren’t doing anything wrong or breaking any laws, the information boards are a crucial part of our campaign”: Rebecca Roughneen talked to Killkenny Carlow Local Radio about the seizure of our pro-life boards, and Maria Buckley also called in to point out that upholding the constitutional right to protest was especially important ahead of a referendum on the 8th.

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