{"id":795,"date":"2008-09-24T11:03:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T11:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/40-days.html"},"modified":"2008-09-24T11:03:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T11:03:27","slug":"40-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/40-days.html","title":{"rendered":"40 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nToday begins the 40 Days for Life campaign: prayer, fasting and presence. This movement began locally and has grown terrifically in such a short time.
\nHere’s the website<\/a> for the effort.
\nMore from Musings from a Catholic Bookstore.<\/a>
\nMarcel LeJeune from Texas A&M has a short blog post on 40 Days, with links and a bit of background on its beginnings there in College Station. <\/a>
\nSheila Liaugminas has a couple of related blog posts on the pro-life movement in South Dakota, one with a video from Dr. Bernard Nathanson <\/a>– helpful to focus our minds at the beginning of these 40 days, reminding us what this is all about – not a ‘wedge issue” that “right-wingers” bring out this time of year for fun, not a “single issue” about which some wackos inconveniently and inexplicably obsess, but lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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