Colombia: Image of the Virgin of Fátima accompanied the prayer of the Rosary for the end of abortion

The Rosary prayers that the members of 40 Days for Life Colombia perform daily in front of two abortion centers in Bogotá, had the blessing of having been accompanied on Saturday by the image of the Virgin of Fátima that makes a pilgrimage through the country.

In this way, yesterday was a joint prayer meeting of pro-life activists with the members of Mission Fátima Colombia, the initiative in charge of the pilgrim image number 12 that arrived more than a year ago from the Sanctuary of Fátima in Portugal, where in 1917 the Virgin appeared to the three little shepherds.

Between 30 to 40 people participated in the prayers and they took place in Santa Ana and Caracas, in front of which are the Oriéntame and Profamilia abortion centers in the town of Teusaquillo.

In the case of the first, it is the place where on September 28 a group of feminists attacked and insulted people who were peacefully praying for the end of abortion. The attack was recorded in a video broadcast on social networks by 40 Days for Life Colombia.

For this reason, the company of the pilgrim image in the Rosary on October 19 has been “definitely a blessing from God, since it is a response that we are sheltered by the maternal mantle of Our Blessed Virgin Mary and obviously by the protection of God.” said Carmen Amanda Montealegre, coordinator of the prayer vigils in Bogotá.

The pro-life leader told ACI Prensa that in the Colombian capital they have twelve-hour daily prayer sessions and that the attack at the end of September will not make them desist from continuing to ask the Virgin to intercede with her Son for unborn children.

“What motivates us to continue is obviously the life of the babies who are in the womb” and who run the risk of being sacrificed with this practice that was decriminalized in 2006 by the Constitutional Court of Colombia.

“Be present in front of these abortion sites, be present so that these women who enter these sites can see that there are other options, that there is someone who is praying for them,” he added.

Montealegre indicated that in Teusaquillo there are more than 30 places where abortions are performed, between “legal” and clandestine ones.

40 Days for Life was born in 2007 in the United States with the objective of praying for the newborn and for the end of abortion. According to your websiteis present in more than a thousand cities in 63 countries.

Every year it organizes two prayer campaigns. The first took place in Lent and the second began on September 25 and will end on November 3.