Vatican City, Feb 19, 2008 / 13:16 pm
In an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, announced a meeting with congressmen from North, Central and South America to discuss family and life issues this summer.
The meeting, to be held in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), is part of a series of meetings planned before the World Congress of Families, scheduled for January 2009 in Mexico City.
Cardinal Lopez Trujillo told L'Osservatore that this is the 7th event of this kind promoted by his Dicastery. "We have had three similar gatherings with politicians and legislators in Europe and three in America: Brazil in 1994, Mexico in 1997 and Argentina in 2003."
“As always, this time we have invited representatives from different political parties and different countries to discuss with respect and openness about the truth," he explained.