End-of-conference pro-life march at the World Congress of Families event in Verona, Italy, at the end of March 2019
Several tens of thousands of people have marched in support of the ultra-conservative World Congress of Families on Sunday, on the final day of their conference in northern Italy.
Participants in the city of Verona carried pink and blue balloons and placards with slogans such as "Yes to life, not to abortion", an AFP correspondent saw.
Supporters travelled by train and coach
from all over Italy to attend the march, which came a day after protesters staged their own demonstration denouncing the organisation's anti-abortion, anti-gay stance.
Before the march started at around midday, those gathered listened to a message from the organisers of the Congress.
"The family, fundamental pillar of our society, must be at the centre of government policies," they said in their closing statement.
Comment: A US-founded, Russian-friendly,
normal conference addressing concerns of the silent majority, the naturally conservative populations ruled by secular elites. This is the best of the West.
CNN's report on it
called it a "conference of hate" and reminded its ultra-liberal audience that it took place in a city that was "home to one of the headquarters of German Intelligence during the Nazi occupation and in the 1970s, a far-right [NATO] terrorist network."
The UK's
Independent focused on the negatives by labeling it an "anti-LGBT+ and anti-abortion conference," and suggesting that its real crime was providing a venue for discussing positive solutions to reversing the West's declining birth rates.
Here's a more objective report on the event, from American participant Dr Steve Turley:
And Turley's speech at the conference:
Comment: Progressive hypocrisy is breathtaking, isn't it?