Culled from LifeSite News, this well-captured Catholic Business profile of one of the most dedicated Catholic pro-lifers on the planet, and one of the sharpest lawyers too, is well-worth the read. Her work at the foundation she founded, Women’s Rights without Frontiers, is well-worth learning about and supporting, and the Rome Pro Life conference sponsored by Life Site News is well-worth attending if you are able to do so.
LifeSite News—This autumn, from October 31 to November 1, Reggie Littlejohn, the president of the pro-life Women’s Rights without Frontiers, will join pro-life and Catholic leaders at the 2023 Rome Life Forum to discuss the evils of the Deep Church and Deep State and their involvement in the Great Reset agenda.
Rome Life Forum attendees will be able to meet and speak to human rights activist Reggie Littlejohn this October.
This autumn, from October 31 to November 1, Reggie Littlejohn, the president of the pro-life Women’s Rights without Frontiers, will join pro-life and Catholic leaders at the 2023 Rome Life Forum to discuss the evils of the Deep Church and Deep State and their involvement in the Great Reset agenda.
The two-day strategy conference will be held immediately after the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality which [some fear] threatens to formalize heretical teachings on the family.
Finding Christ in the poor and helpless: Working with Mother Teresa
While Littlejohn was born into a Christian family, as a teenager, she rejected her faith and refused to attend church. Littlejohn remained an atheist until she began reading the Gospel of St. John in an ancient literature course in college. Reading the Gospels caused Littlejohn to realize the humanity of Christ whom she had rejected.
Following her marriage, Littlejohn took a year off school at Yale Law and traveled around the world. During her trips, Littlejohn was able to to meet Mother Teresa and volunteer with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.
Littlejohn worked personally with Mother Theresa to care for the sick and dying on the streets of Calcutta. Through caring for the poor and the witness of Mother Theresa, Littlejohn’s faith in God was completely restored.
From lawyer to women’s crusader
Upon graduation, Littlejohn planned to work as a San Francisco lawyer, but God seemed to have other plans. During her time as a litigator, Littlejohn helped Chinese refugees immigrating to the United States.
“My first refugee was someone who was persecuted as a Christian and forcibly sterilized. That opened two whole worlds up to me,” she revealed.
Shocked by what she learned
“First, I didn’t know that Christians were persecuted in China. Second, I knew that China had a one-child policy, but I never stopped to think how it was enforced,” Littlejohn continued. “I did not realize until I represented this first woman that it is enforced through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide. I was utterly appalled.”
A while later, Littlejohn lost her own baby in a miscarriage. As she searched for a reason why God would allow her baby to die, Littlejohn realized that her own loss had made her understand more deeply the loss of Chinese mothers whose babies are killed in forced abortions.
In 2003, Littlejohn became ill and was forced to take a medical leave. She was disabled for five years during which she underwent several surgeries and developed chronic fatigue syndrome.
However, it was during this time that Littlejohn realized God’s mission for her.
Clarity about her own mission
“My mission went from making lots of money as an attorney to helping women and babies devastated by forced abortion and female gendercide in China due to China’s One-Child Policy,” she said.
Littlejohn worked tirelessly to save Chinese women. She wrote “Pearls of China,” a full-length drama which exposed the devastation caused by China’s One-Child-Policy, including forced abortion, forced sterilization, death from botched procedures, in addition to causing 37 million more men than women living in China. This situation has led to human trafficking, sexual slavery, and a high rate of female suicide.
Founding Women’s Rights Without Frontiers
In 2011, Littlejohn became the founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, an international coalition that exposes and opposes forced abortion, gendercide, and sexual slavery in China.
As an international expert on China’s brutal policies, she has testified a half-a-dozen times at the United States Congress, twice at the European Parliament, and at the British and Irish Parliaments.
In 2014, Littlejohn spoke four times at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women against China’s brutal one-child policy. Littlejohn was also honored as one of the “Top Ten people of 2013” by Inside the Vatican Magazine.
“Save a girl” campaign
But, not content to simply be a voice for Chinese women, Littlejohn also founded the “Save a girl Campaign,” a “boots-on-the-ground” program in China that provides a monthly stipend for one year to mothers who are at risk of aborting or abandoning their baby girls. The money helps mothers resist pressure to abort their babies and the campaign has already saved hundreds of lives.
Taking the campaign to a personal level, Littlejohn and her husband welcomed into their home two Chinese sisters in 2013 after the girls’ father was imprisoned and tortured for speaking out against Communist government abuses.
Now, Littlejohn continues to work to end forced abortions in China and to protect Chinese mothers and baby girls.
Rome Life Forum opportunity: Oct 31 – Nov 1
Attendees of the upcoming Rome Life Forum will have an opportunity to meet and speak to Littlejohn, in addition to many other warriors for life.
Conference attendees will have the opportunity to actively participate in all forum strategy sessions with our guest speakers. Other guest speakers include Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, freedom activist and LifeSite’s own John-Henry Westen, among others.
The conference will take place in the four-star A. Roma LifeStyle Hotel. Off the beaten track, the hotel is nevertheless just a 30-minute bus ride from St. Peter’s Square. In addition, October and November are well-known to be part of Rome’s “off-season,” providing visitors with more space—and cooler temperatures—in which to make pilgrimages to the city’s spiritual and cultural treasures.
Tickets are limited to 200, so be sure to secure your own today. For the latest information on this year’s Rome Life Forum, please visit RomeLifeForum.com .
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