FIC Blog

From our friend Christine Murphy: 40 Days for Life, Bridgeport is sponsoring a Pro-Life Living Rosary. Anyone interested in participating can go to the website, listed below, to sign up. If you have any questions please feel free to call George Meagher at (203) 377-6886. Pro-Life Living Rosary Saturday, October 19, 2013 – 11 AM […]

FIC was proud to partner with human rights activist Raymond Bechard to pass landmark legislation against human trafficking in the last two legislative sessions. The fight against that anti-family scourge will continue in a myriad of ways for many years to come. One of those ways is the First Annual 5K Run organized by the […]

Life Chain will be happening in Connecticut on October 6th in the following locations: * CHESHIRE – in front of Cheshire Town Green, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Noreen Pearsall 203-272-8661 * DANBURY – Main Street at West Street, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Dorothy Vining 203-748-2939 or Deirdre Condon 203-438-6123 * NEW MILFORD – The Green, […]

Family Institute of Connecticut is hearing from both concerned friends and gleeful foes over comments by Pope Francis that are being spun in the media as “Pope wants Catholics to abandon the fight against abortion and same-sex ‘marriage.’”  In fact, that is not what the Pope said. In a 12,000 word interview that touches briefly […]

Family Institute of Connecticut is pleased to announce that Cathy Ludlum, of Second Thoughts Connecticut, will be FIC’s 2013 Charles Stetson Awardee. The award is given each year at our annual banquet to whoever has shown the most courage in pro-family battles over the previous 12 months. It was Second Thoughts Connecticut, the disability rights […]

From our friend Brian Doyle, President of Iron Sharpens Iron: The Power of a Praying Husband A number of years ago I came across research from a Gallup Poll in 1997 published by the National Association of Marriage Enhancement out of Phoenix that showed that couples who prayed together daily had a divorce rate of […]

Our friends at Impact Connecticut, a successor organization to the Connecticut House of Prayer, are planning a 40 Days of Worship Initiative throughout our state’s churches in September and October: Beginning September 4 through October 14, we have planned 40+ unity gatherings for worship and prayer on 40 consecutive days at 40+ different locations all […]

Family Institute of Connecticut is honored to have as the keynote speaker of our September 27th Banquet Eric Metaxas. As we mentioned in FIC’s Feb. 25th and June 11th email alerts, Eric, who grew up in Connecticut, is a rising star, the author of a best-selling biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (and other books), a voice […]

From our friends in Cheshire: CHESHIRE LIFE CHAIN A peaceful, prayerful pro life witness What is Life Chain? It’s a “prayer chain” and public (sidewalk) witness for Life. Where is the Life Chain? In front of the Cheshire Green When can we attend our first Life Chain? Tuesday, July 16th 5 – 6 p.m. Who […]

There is still time to register for the Great Awakening IV conference, which is taking place June 20-22 at Memorial Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The title recalls previous “Great Awakenings” of Christian faith in American history. From the informational brochure: At this conference an excellent selection of nationally recognized speakers will address the reasons for […]