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Black Americans for Life recently participated in a two-day Pastors for Life conference coordinated by Greene Hollowell and hosted by the Mt. Gilead Full Gospel Church of Richmond, Virginia, which drew over 400 people. About half the attendees were African-Americans. The conference equipped pastors to educate and to lead their congregations to stand strong against abortion, euthanasia, infanticide, and assisted suicide.
The Honorable Geline Williams, NRLC's chairman of the board and the Virginia director to NRLC, served on the planning committee for the Pastors for Life conference. "It was a marvelous program, bringing together a variety of people from different denominations and races, to join together in support of protecting human life," Mrs. Williams said.
Day Gardner, national director of Black Americans for Life, was one of the event's featured speakers. "Too many Black ministers close their eyes to the deaths of Black children by abortion," Ms. Gardner said. She urged pastors to talk openly about the devastation of abortion and to reach out to care for post-abortive women.
The conference attendees listened intently as Ms. Gardner pointed out that, since 1973, eight million ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Black Americans for Life Speaks at Gathering of Religious Leaders.