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Unity Breakfast to Focus on Human Trafficking
01.18.14
The 5th Annual Celebrating Life Unity Breakfast on February 8th will focus on the tragic reality of human trafficking, a form of modern day slavery.  This event is the first time this issue will have been discussed at a public...
Annual SpeakOut Illinois Conference on Feb 1st
By David E. Smith   |   01.17.14
Join the IFI Team and many other great pro-life advocates at the annual SpeakOut Illinois Conference. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, February 1 at Crowne Plaza O’Hare Hotel in Rosemont. The topic will be “Empowered for Life:...
Persecution, Repression, and Religious Liberty
01.16.14
Kim Dae Jin recalls the day when, as a prisoner in a North Korean labor camp, an informant betrayed a small group of prisoners who were Christian, which to be was forbidden. "I watched as they (prison officials) grabbed hold of my friend's arm so tightly that it died and had to be amputated," he said.
State Marriage Defense Act
By   |   01.16.14
A very important, albeit confusing, ruling was handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) last summer.  In the United States v. Windsor case, the Supreme Court struck down the federal definition of marriage contained in the...
A Letter From an Abortion Survivor to Her Unborn Baby
01.15.14
Sixty-two days. Today, my dear son or daughter, you are 62 days old. I say son or daughter, because, you are 62 days old in the womb today, so we don’t know a whole lot yet about you. But what we do know is this. You are ours and you are loved.
Oppose New IRS Regulations
By   |   01.15.14
In 2010 millions of American tea-party constitutionalists, to include the GOP’s Christian base, united in a remarkable grass-roots effort to rein in our unbridled federal government and return it to its expressly limited constitutional confines. As a result, an unprecedented...
Bubble Zones Legislation Before the SCOTUS
By Monte Larrick   |   01.14.14
Illinois Family Institute is excited to announce the appointment of Monte Larrick as its Media Affairs Director. Larrick, an award-winning broadcast journalist, recently retired from Moody Broadcasting in Chicago after more than 30 years of service. He will be using...
So, You Say You Want Change?  Really?
By Rev. Thorin Anderson   |   01.12.14
There is much hand-wringing over the violence and chaos of Chicago’s inner city neighborhoods and the fiscal crises facing the state, and we are led to believe that people really want solutions.  The evidence would say otherwise.  While those who...
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