POLITICIANS FROM THROUGHOUT AMERICA TO DEBATE ON THE FAMILY

VATICAN CITY, JUL 29, 1999 (VIS) - The Pontifical Council for the Family has organized the 3rd Meeting of Politicians and Legislators of America which will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from August 3 to 5. The theme of the meeting is "Family and Life, 50 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, and Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, secretary for Relations with States, will participate in the meeting. Also present will be around 200 politicians and legislators from throughout America and a number of academics.

The first of these meetings, between Latin American states, was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 1993. It studied the topic "The Rights of the Family at the Threshold of the Third Millennium." The second meeting, for all America, was held in Mexico City, Mexico, in June 1996. The theme on that occasion was "The Dignity of the Family and Life in the Policy and Legislation of America. Reflections in Light of the Encyclical 'Evangelium Vitae'."

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