From: People For Peace
Colleagues Home & Abroad Regional News
International Day of Families will be celebrated on May, 15, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI has chosen May for his general prayer intention for the family. “That initiatives which defend and uphold the role of the family may be promoted within society.”
The family day was proclaimed in 1994 by the United Nations. This was a response to changing social and economic structures, which have affected and still affect the structure and stability of family units in many regions of the globe, especially in developing worlds