Standup 4Life Rally and Walk TOMORROW in Oakland!

From the blog of the Walk for Life West Coast comes this important reminder:

"Although the Walk for Life West Coast is not until Saturday, there are many related events taking place. Tomorrow, our dear friend Walter Hoye will lead the 7th AnnualStandup 4Life Rally and Walk. The Rally and Walk begin at 12 noon at the Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of Oakland City Hall. Walter writes:

“We walk because abortion in the Black community is a form of genocide, it is the Darfur of America. We walk because abortion in Black America is the civil rights issue of our day. We walk because abortion does violence, both physically and emotionally, to men and women, to their children, and to their families.

Walk with us and help us change the perceptions of a culture that thinks aborting children is an option.”

The black community has been hurt far more that any other by the inhumanity of legalized abortion. Join Walter, Reverend Clenard Childress, Pastor Walter Moss, and Pastor Bruce Rivers, as they work to end this insanity and rekindle hope in the black community. You can find all details of tomorrow’s Standup 4Life event here."

Walter Hoye Leads the Stand Up 4Life March in Oakland Today

God Bless him! and God bless all who stood with as he tries to change the Culture of Death in Oakland.

San Diego Walk For Life Big Success!

God Bless our brothers and sisters down in San Diego!

LifeSiteNews has the story:

Throngs of youth at San Diego Walk for Life

"More than 3,000 pro-lifers gathered in Balboa Park near downtown San Diego on Saturday morning to celebrate the gift of life at San Diego’s first annual Walk for Life event.

The event marked 40 years since the infamous Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton Supreme Court decisions that decriminalized abortion on demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy.

Several nationally renowned speakers kicked off the walk during an energetic rally. Walter Hoye II, president of Issues4Life Foundation, was the master of ceremonies.

'Life is for everybody. Everybody deserves life,” Hoye told LifeSiteNews.com, explaining the theme of the event. “And we’re here to celebrate life in all of its meaning.'

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, encouraged the crowd to look beyond Barack Obama's re-election to an avalanche of successes at the state level.

'There is a real rising tide of pro-life legislators who are taking back the life issue from the ground up, and that’s where the real activity is,' Dr. Yoest told LifeSiteNews.'People should be really encouraged by this.'”

Walk for Life West Coast: January 26 in San Francisco

It's next month: the largest annual gathering of Catholics (and other pro-lifers) in the city of San Francisco!

This year's Walk has more events than ever: 

On January 25:

Walter Hoye leading the Stand Up 4Life March in Oakland!
A special Mass with the Sisters of Life celebrated by San Jose's Auxiliary Bishop Tom Daly
(followed by adoration) at San Francisco's Star of the Sea.
All night adoration on January 25 at Saints Peter and Paul,
closing with the Unborn Jesus Holy Hour at 6:00 AM on January 26.

On January 26:

9:30 AM Mass at the St Mary's Cathedral
celebrated by Archbishop Cordileone and many of his brother bishops!
11:00 AM Info Faire at San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza!

12:30 PM Rally for Life at Civic Center Plaza.

1:30 PM Walk for Life from the Plaza down Market Street
 Catholic Underground youth event at St. Mary Magdalene in Berkeley in the evening!

For all details visit www.walkforlifewc.com

Congressman West Hosts Forum on Abortion in the Black Community

Today, our friend Walter Hoye, Jr., and other black pro-lifers will bring their message to the halls of Congress.

At 1PM East Coast Time Congressman Allen West and the National Prolife Coalition will sponsor a forum to explore the horrific toll abortion is taking on the black community.

The forum will be held in the Rayburn Gold Room, Room 2168, of the Capitol.

In addition to Walter, presenters include: Ryan Bomberger, Founder of the Radiance Foundation; Stephen Broden, Sr. Pastor, Fairpark Bible Church; Dr. Freda Bush, MD; Catherine Davis, President, The Restoration Project; Day Gardner, President Black Prolife Union;  and Dean Nelson, Vice President, Underserved Outreach, Care Net.

Thank you, Congressman West for joining in this critical fight! Let us join in prayer:

"... The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." (James 5:16)

Walk For Life West Coast Speakers to Join Reverend Hoye in Oakland!

The Catholic News Agency reports that some of the Walk for Life West Coast speakers will be joining the great Reverend Walter Hoye at the Fifth Annual Standing Up 4Life Walk in Oakland on Friday, January 20. Standing Up 4Life begins at 12 noon in the Frank Ogawa Plaza, in front of Oakland's City Hall. After the Walk, there will be a discussion in the parish hall of Oakland's Christ the Light Cathedral, followed by an ecumenical prayer service in the Cathedral. Participants will include their Excellencies Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of Oakland and Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento.

Pro-life ecumenism takes root in Oakland, Calif.

"Oakland, Calif., Jan 14, 2012 (CNA) - The Rev. Walter Hoye is preparing for his fifth annual Standing Up 4Life Walk in Oakland, Calif. The rally will begin at noon Jan. 20 in front of Oakland City Hall at 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza.

'The speakers want to come to Oakland,' said the Rev. Hoye, who thanked West Coast Walk for Life founders Eva Muntean and Dolores Meehan for their assistance.

'Eva and Dolores work together to get communities of color involved,' he said. The focus of the Oakland event is the impact of abortion on the minority community.

The Rev. Hoye is one of the nation’s leaders in framing the abortion debate as a matter of genocide...

An ecumenical prayer service will follow from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland. The public is invited to attend the service. The Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone, bishop of Oakland, and the Most Rev. Jaime Soto, bishop of Sacramento, Calif. will be among the speakers."Read the whole thing.

The Reverend Clenard Childress, Dr. Vansen Wong, Mrs. Lori Hoye, and Abby Johnson will be joining Walter. Full details of the Standing Up 4Life Walk can be found here.