‘40 Days for Life’ Campaigns Planned in Local Communities

Give witness to the sanctity of human life and promote an end to abortion through the 40 Days for Life campaigns, which will take place in several locations throughout the Diocese this fall.

40 Days for Life is a community-based campaign that takes a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own neighborhoods, for their own friends and families. The movement calls for participants to witness to the sanctity of human life through a three-point program of activities: prayer and fasting, constant vigil at abortion clinics, and community outreach.

The worldwide campaign takes its name from the 40-day periods God used to transform individuals, communities and the entire world, from Noah in the flood and Moses on the mountain, to the disciples after Christ’s Resurrection.

Its mission is to bring together the body of Christ in a spirit of unity through prayer, fasting, and peaceful activism, with the purpose of repentance, to seek God’s favor to turn hearts and minds from a culture of death to a culture of life, thus bringing an end to abortion.

40 Days for Life campaigns will take place Sept. 25-Nov. 3 in the locations listed below. For more information about the campaign, and to connect to local efforts, visit www.40daysforlife.com.