Quito, Ecuador, Mar 29, 2016 / 23:31 pm
Under the theme "Love in motion," more than 25,000 people participated in the ninth annual the Day of the Unborn Child Walk in several cities in Ecuador.
The event's purpose is to publicly express the massive support for defending life and the natural family.
In Quito, the March 19 event was livened up by music groups, pro-life testimonies, theater and symbolic floats. The cities of Tena, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Loja, Cuenca and Esmeraldas joined the event in the nation's capital.
Under the coordination of the Quito Auxiliary Bishop Danilo Echeverría, who heads up the Life and Family Pastoral Ministry of the Ecuadorian Bishops Conference, the event drew together different lay Catholic movements, women's citizen groups, parish youth group organizations, international family associations and pro-life and pro-family groups and movements.