{"id":255458,"date":"2021-10-19T08:46:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T13:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=255458"},"modified":"2021-10-18T18:33:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T23:33:17","slug":"5000-gather-warsaw-poland-march-life-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/5000-gather-warsaw-poland-march-life-family\/","title":{"rendered":"5,000 gather in Warsaw for Poland’s March for Life and the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five thousand people participated in Poland’s 16th annual March for Life and the Family<\/a>, which took place in Warsaw on September 19. While previous marches took place at up to 140 satellite locations simultaneously, this year’s march was held solely in the nation’s capital due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Pawe\u0142 Ozdoba, the head of the Center for Life and the Family and an organizer for the March, opened the event by addressing this year’s fatherhood-centered theme, “Father – be, lead, protect.” Ozdoba reflected<\/a>,\u00a0“A responsible and strong father and a strong man are needed not only by the family, but also by the whole society.”\u00a0Ozdoba and other march organizers met with the country’s president\u00a0Andrzej Duda beforehand. As previously noted by Live Action News<\/a>, in 2020, Duda became the first Polish President to attend the March.<\/p>\n