An international conference of the World Congress of Families (WCF) was held on Tuesday in Balti, Moldova’s second-largest city, organized essentially by WCF Spokesman Don Feder (USA), Member of the European Parliament from the National Front of France Aymeric Chauprade, and Chairman of the International Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, former Moldovan Prime Minister [2001-2008] Vasile Tarlev.

 

They said at a news conference at Infotag on Tuesday night that the Balti forum focused on questions of promotion of traditional family values in Moldova, Orthodox ideas, and civilization models of Moldova development in globalization conditions.

 

Don Feder said the World Congress of Families was founded nearly 2 decades ago, and since then it has held 7 congresses in various major cities of the world – from Prague to Sydney.

 

The next congress will take place in Salt Lake City (USA) in October 2015, which will gather delegations from 60 countries the WCF members. That congress will discuss parents’ equal rights in family, childbirth in a healthy environment, religious values in hetero-denominational states, and other, said the American guest.

 

Infotag’s dossier: The World Congress of Families (WCF) is a United States coalition that promotes Christian right values internationally. It opposes same-sex marriage, pornography, and abortion, while supporting a society built on "the voluntary union of a man and a woman in a lifelong covenant of marriage". WCF comprises organizations in several countries, and most of its member partners are strongly active campaigners for pro-life positions and specific Christian views on marriage that oppose same-sex marriage. WCF was formed in 1997 and is active worldwide, regularly organizing large international 'pro-family' conventions. Its opposition to gay marriage and abortion has attracted criticism. It was added to the list of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBT hate groups in February 2014 for its involvement with the 2013 Russian LGBT propaganda law and opposing LGBT rights internationally.