"I have the impression that the concerns about the population demographic developments are awakening a new attention to life and family in Europe. Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, is in Strasbourg to attend the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights promoted by Pro-Life Movement. "A nation will dye without a substantial number of births," he said to the SIR; "a nation will decay if its children are not wisely educated." Cardinal Antonelli then adds: "A united and stable family is the best guarantee for recovering demographic stability and for ensuring that true human values are passed onto new generations." In the afternoon, the Cardinal will speak in the hemicycle of the Council of Europe to a group of one hundred young people and to the representatives of pro-life movements and associations that are actively involved in the protection of life on the Old Continent. His speech will be precede by two round tables (“The Beginning of Human Life” and “Down Syndrome Today”) and by the awarding of the European Prize for Life to "Mother Theresa of Calcutta." ” “
