December 9, 2008
MEDIA ADVISORY/
PRESS CONFERENCE
300,000 NAMES SUBMITTED TO UN IN FAVOR OF RIGHT TO LIFE

Where: Press briefing room, UN headquarters, New York
Contact: Austin Ruse, President 202 -393-7002 (office), 202-531-3770 (cell)
UN Headquarters, New York Tomorrow, December 10th, a coalition of social conservative groups from around the world will present a petition of 330,000 names calling for Member States of the United Nations to interpret the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as protecting the unborn child from abortion and protecting the traditional family.
The group formed in response and in opposition to petition efforts by pro-abortion groups International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International that are calling for a right to abortion on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
We are proud not only to match but far surpass the efforts of pro-abortion groups, said Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), the primary organizer of the petition drive. We launched our drive only two months ago and have generated more than 300,000 names from all over the world.
Ruse said, I suspect that Marie Stopes and IPPF will present a few thousand names. This shows what we have known all along; that abortion is supported mostly by elites while every day people are for protecting the unborn child.
Ruses group along with the Pro-Life Federation of Poland, the Institute of Family Policy of Spain, United Families International of the US, and US-based Concerned Women for America will present the petition at UN headquarters and in private meetings with Ambassadors.
The UN Petition for the Unborn Child and the Family asserts that the rights presented in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are inherent to every person and that governments should extend the right to life to all members of the human family, including the unborn child. The petition also calls on governments to: protect the family as the fundamental group unit of society, give special assistance to motherhood and childhood and promote the rights of parents.

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Two Week Notice
Join A Thousand at Prayer for the Anglican Communion
Proxy Prayer on a night during the first half of the decadal Lambeth Conference,
 20 July to 4 August, 2008
  
Premise: Proxy Prayer is essentially intercessory prayer, but specifically where a small group of intercessors lays on hands on a person prepared to stand in on behalf of another person (or group, or event, etc.), thus the proxy.
Background: At St. John’s, Tulare, California, on September 25, 2005, members of the parish put into action what the Rector had introduced to the parish as Proxy Prayer, in this case where each person so identified as the proxy came prepared to identify at least 5 critical issues for one of numerous cities and towns affected by Hurricane Katrina, and then Hurricane Rita, as well. The event was webcast to a small audience, photos were taken of each proxy and community and posted to the parish website, three different types of images (satellite photo, weather report images, communities pinpointed on USA map) of the hurricanes at their worst over the land were projected onto a pull down screen in the chancel to provide a constant reference. The initial small prayer groups (4) were made up of known, Holy Spirit-gifted intercessors from other denominational and non-denominational churches in town, and other area Episcopal churches.  The page has been resurrected at the St. John website for illustration and instruction.
The framework for that evening was Evening Prayer, and the bishop attended, having been invited to speak on The Mission of the Church, and the actual Proxy Prayer took place at the end of the service, as provided by the rubrics.
Results: The event was extremely successful on many different levels. It brought a profound spiritual benefit to the proxies, having studied their communities, nearly all of them having had personal contact with at least one person in those communities by email or even phone, and then allowing themselves to be vessels of God’s grace during the time of prayer. The prayer also brought tangible results, as follow-up communications discovered answers to many of the prayers, a few extremely timely even for that evening. As well, when the proxies were grouped as new intercessory groups ready to pray for another proxy, many people experienced new confidence as ministers of prayer, sometimes being moved even greater while they were praying for others than they experienced when they had just been a proxy. Some came not expecting much at all, and walked away shaking their heads at having witnessed a powerful move of the Holy Spirit during the evening.
Preparation: Plenty of announcements were made for the time frame for the evening, including media alerts to newspapers, radio and TV.
A newsprint list, propped up on a tripod, with the names of each of the communities affected by the hurricane (Rita came along after the first round of preparations had already been made) allowed individuals to decide which community they wanted to pray for. Those who had lived along the Gulf Coast, or who visited relatives, or just had memorable travels there were quick to pick their favorite places (we broke New Orleans down into quarters). When time was becoming of an essence for the personal research necessary, the Rector sent out an email and flyer with the names of the remaining communities with instructions to have those interested respond immediately. When Rita hit, the Rector simply assigned individuals to the new group of communities, or doubled up someone who had already signed up. There were over twenty proxies with absences and a couple of assignments at the door by the time Evening Prayer began that night.
Each proxy was given two clip-on name tags with the name of the community they were standing in for - one tag for the front, and one tag for display on their back. This dual tag system allowed for photographs and webcam pix which got posted during the evening. In case anyone from those communities were watching along, they would know exactly when their community was being prayed for.
 
In the case of the Anglican Communion Proxy Prayer, there would be one proxy for each of the 35 Provinces around the world (the Church of England, the Province of the Middle East, the Church of Uganda, the Nippon Sei Ko Kei, etc.).
Implementation of the Proxy Prayer itself:
At the beginning of the prayer time, the recognized intercessors from outside the Parish were invited to come forward to the chancel and move into 4 small groups of 3 persons each, and station themselves equidistant from each other in the choir and sanctuary. The Rector then pointed to 4 proxies to each go to a prayer group separately for laying on of hands. These 4 were particularly selected as those who also had experience as intercessors themselves, especially capable of working with others in a small prayer group, the reason for that to be made clear shortly.
As the proxy came to a group, introductions were made, if someone was unknown to another. The proxy then shared their researched list (written down on paper) of at least 5 critical issues for the community they were representing. The prayer group then laid on hands, and began by invoking the presence and guidance of the Holy Spirit, asking for specific revelation from the Lord for that community. Any words of knowledge, or prophecy, or images or visions for prayer were taken care of first as objects of prayer and sharing themselves. Again, check the Hurricane Katrina page at the St. John website, and click on one of the hyperlinked communities (such as Biloxi) to see an example of the prayers brought, and the prayers discerned.  Then followed prayers for each of the listed concerns (unless already brought up in prayer by the Holy Spirit).
After completing the prayers for a community through the proxy, the proxy now became a small group member, pulling off one of the original small group members as well. This makes two groups of two; as soon as another prayer group is finished, the proxy and an original members go to one of the two-person groups to make 3 in each. This method provided for an ever-increasing number of prayer groups, allowing successively more proxies able to be prayed for at one time.
For the Anglican Communion Proxy Prayer time, with each proxy receiving approximately 5 minutes of prayer, with 4, then 8, then 12 to 16, then perhaps 18 to 20 groups praying at one time, there would be an estimated time allowance of 30 to 45 minutes.
Order of service: Evening Prayer was read, which, minus sermon and the intercessory prayers, takes approximately 20 minutes, unless you add in some music for singing, which we did for the Katrina/Rita Proxy Prayer night. The bishop’s address was a good 30 to 40 minutes. Adding in the Proxy Prayer time itself, the whole service and prayers lasted nearly 2 hours.
The propers for the service were taken from the Daily Office lectionary in the Book of Common Prayer for St. John the Apostle (the Orthodox celebrate the day at the end of September, and that works as our patronal festival weekend). The parish organist and the rector provided background music with organ and guitar during the Proxy Prayer time.
Goal for Proxy Prayer during Lambeth: To be a thousand in common prayer at least one day during Lambeth, and during the first week. Our goal is to invite and encourage parishes and missions around the Anglican Communion (whether Anglican or not) to organize their own Proxy Prayer time focused on the Anglican Communion Provinces, preferably all praying initially on the same day, or at least on one day during the first week, so that there are at least 25 congregations involved, which would calculate to be at the least approximately one thousand (1000) people in common prayer.
The purpose of praying on one of the days during the first week is to allow for immediate responses and effects of those prayers to be evidenced at Lambeth Conference, and thus allowing for even more prayer by the proxies (either as a group again, or on their own) to follow-up while Lambeth Conference is still meeting.

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During the reign of terror in 1871, the prisoners of the Commune, in Paris, in the dungeons of Mazas, were preparing to make the sacrifice of their lives to God. They ceased not to repeat again and again: "Veni, Domini Jesu! Come, Lord Jesus." And the answer was: "Yes, behold I come quickly: Etiam venio cito" (Apoc. xxii. 20). Suddenly the doors opened, the captives did not leave, but Jesus entered. A courageous woman, whose twofold character of American and Protestant enabled her to visit the prisoners without exciting suspicion, brought to the confessors of Jesus Christ a little box, containing several consecrated hosts, which a priest had secretly given her, begging her not to fail in placing it in the hands of the captives. The prisoners were filled with joy and consolation. "I am no longer alone," wrote one of them; "I have our Lord as my guest in my little cell; I feel as I did on the day of my first communion, and I shed tears of joy. O my God! how good Thou art! how true it is that the mercy of Thy Heart will never fail! What thanks do we not owe to the benevolent woman who has procured us so much happiness; we cease not to pray for her, and we hope that the gift she made to us may be rewarded, more especially in the time of trial." On the 24th of May, the hour sounded for leaving earth for heaven; fortified with the holy Viaticum and Jesus in their hearts, the saintly prisoners went forth to yield up their lives into the hands of God. A volley was heard, then one or two single shots; all was over, the victims were no longer victims but martyrs. Their grateful prayers were not offered in vain; the Protestant lady who had brought them the Sacred Hosts, received in return, from the Heart of Jesus, the gift of the true faith. She is now a Catholic. Happy woman! who found thus a heavenly treasure in the midst of the horrors of a siege, which destroyed so much earthly wealth. On her return to America, she was able to proclaim the gratitude of the French martyrs and the generosity of the Heart of Jesus.

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