January 2, 2013 – The Walk for Life West Coast is honored to announce
that Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Holy Father’s Ambassador to the
United States, will be attending the 9th Annual Walk for Life West
Coast in San Francisco, on January 26, 2013.
“What an honor! We
are so excited—this is the next best thing to having the Holy Father
himself with us!” said Eva Muntean, a co-founder of the Walk.
Archbishop Viganò, appointed on October 19, 2011, the Feast of the North
American Martyrs, is the 14th Papal representative to the United
States. The diplomatic post was established in 1893.
The 2013
event will begin at 12:30 PM in the city’s Civic Center Plaza. The rally
and Walk will be preceded in the plaza by an Info Faire, beginning at
11:00 AM, and a “Silent No More” awareness campaign, featuring actress
Jennifer O’Neill (www.jenniferoneill.com) beginning at 10:45 AM. Rally speakers include:
•
Lacey Buchanan, a young mother whose YouTube video about her blind son
went viral and has touched over 11 million viewers (her video was voted
the #3 video of 2012 on Godvine.com);
• Elaine Riddick, a woman
who was forcibly sterilized at age 14 under orders from North Carolina’s
Eugenics Board, whose goal was to purify the state’s population by
weeding out the mentally ill, diseased, feebleminded and others deemed
undesirable;
• Rev. Clenard Childress, the founder and director of www.BlackGenocide.org , a website designed to reach the African-American Community with the truth about abortion;
•
Kelly and Matthew Clinger, a post-abortive couple who share their story
about the heartache and pain caused by life in the music industry,
divorce, addiction, and abortion.
Following the rally, Walkers will march down Market Street to Justin Herman Plaza.
Founded
in 2005 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area residents, the Walk for
Life West Coast’s mission is to change the perceptions of a society that
thinks abortion is an answer. Walk participants are expected from
throughout the Bay Area and across the United States and Canada.
More details at: www.walkforlifewc.com.