The World Congress of Families by Allan C. Carlson

As “demographic winter” descends over Europe, plunging birthrates coincide with heavy immigration, primarily from Muslim lands. Following the logic of Mark Steyn’s America Alone, many conservatives have largely written off “old Europe” as a lost cause.

This is unfortunate, for two reasons. First, courageous pro-family champions and organizations exist in every European country, even in hotbeds of militant secularism such as France, Sweden, and Spain. Second, several recent members of the European Union have elected strong pro-family governments, notably Latvia, Slovakia, and Poland. Despite intense pressures from EU bureaucrats in Brussels, these countries have implemented innovative programs to support natural families, grounded in marriage and welcoming towards children.

To encourage these developments, the World Congress of Families will hold its fourth Congress (WCF IV) in Warsaw, Poland, May 11-13. “If Europe is lost to demographic winter and radical secularism, much of the world will go with it” reasoned the WCF IV planning committee. “Poland saved Europe before,” by lifting the Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683 and helping to demolish the Soviet empire three centuries later. “It is likely she will save Europe again,” the committee concluded. And so, it resolved to convene this congress “among the brave people of Poland.”

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