Who are we?
Our mission:
To proclaim the Gospel of Life and build the culture of life
We commit ourselves to fulfilling this mission through:
Prayer:
Commitment to personal prayer and the advancement of communal prayer
Education:
Building respect for the sanctity of life, faith and family in the context of Catholic morality by educating on all life issues from natural conception to natural death, and by maintaining a presence in the media by providing public comment on issues relating to life, faith and family
Action:
Serving pregnant women in crisis, and those affected by abortion
Family Life International is a Catholic organisation dedicated to educating, advocating and carrying out practical work in support of life, faith and family.
We do this by providing education and formation events and resources; by advocating for life, faith and family issues in the New Zealand media; and by running crisis-pregnancy centres, offering post-abortion counselling and training couples in Natural Fertility Regulation.
Our aim is to promote the full dignity and wonder of human life (from the moment of natural conception to the moment of natural death), of human sexuality, of marriage and family, and to inform and protect kiwi women and their babies from the harm of abortion.
Our story started in April 1992 when FLI Director Colleen Bayer attended a pro-life/family conference in Ottawa, Canada. There she met Fr Paul Marx OSB, PhD - the great “Apostle for Life” (so named by John Paul II). Colleen was so greatly inspired by the apostolic nature of Father Marx’s defense of life, faith and family, that she established Family Life International here in New Zealand during September 1992, in the same spirit of Father Marx's calling.
Thanks to our generous supporters we have chapters in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and other parts of New Zealand. We have crisis-pregnancy centres in Auckland and Christchurch, and we provide education and formation, crisis-pregnancy support, post-abortion help, and formation in Natural Fertility Regulation all over New Zealand. We also advocate for life, faith and family in the New Zealand media from our Auckland office.
All of this work is only possible through the generous support of our donors.
If you would like to become a supporter of life, faith and family in New Zealand please click here to find out how you can donate to the important work of Family Life International.