Contact: Don Feder, 508-405-1337, don@worldcongress.org; The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, 815-964-5819, media@worldcongress.org

ROCKFORD, Ill., May 23, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Second World Congress of Families Caribbean Conference -- "Building A Culture of Life and A Civilization of Love" -- is scheduled for June 14-15 at The Learning Resource Centre, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad.  The conference is co-sponsored with the Elpis Centre, Trinidad and CARIFAM (Caribbean Centre for Family & Human Rights) as conference partners.

Rebekah Ali Gouveia, WCF Caribbean Coordinator and President of The Elpis Centre, announced the following distinguished speakers covering a broad range of the most pressing issues related to the family's future.

• Professor William Wagner -- (President, Salt and Light Global) on "Parental Rights and Responsibilities"
   
• Janice Shaw Crouse -- (Beverly LaHaye Institute of Concerned Women for America) on "The Relevance of Marriage and Family In The 21st. Century"
   
• Susan Roylance -- (The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society) on "Using Family Capital to Achieve Millennium Development Goals"
   
• Don Feder -- (World Congress of Families Communications Director) on "The Sexual Revolution and Demographic Winter," and "Hollywood And the Family"
   
• Dr. Godfrey St. Bernard -- (University of the West Indies) on "Demographic Reality In the Caribbean"
   
• Dale O'Leary -- (author and lecturer) on "The Gender Agenda"
   
• Justin Murff -- (Free Them Now) on "Sex Trafficking And The Abuse of Children"
   
• Shelly Locke -- (The Power of Mothers) on "The Importance of Mothering." There will also be a screening of her Motherhood documentary
   
• Arnold Culbreath -- (Life Issues Institute) on "The Sanctity of Life And Eugenics Agenda"
   
• Nik Nikas -- (Bioethics Defense Fund) on "Medical Ethics and ‘Reproductive Rights'"
   
• Red and Patricia Zimmerman -- (Bruderhof Community) "Bringing The Generations Together"
   
• Diane Medved Harper -- (Gynecologic Prevention Research Group) "Risks & Benefits of Pap Screening and HPV Vaccine on Women's Health"
   
• Ruth A.M. Ross -- (Advocates International) "How Laws Shape Cultural Attitudes Towards Marriage and the Family"
   
• Brian S. Brown -- (National Organization for Marriage) "Marriage -- One Man One Woman"
   
• Dr. Nanci Coppola -- (Healthy Respect Program) "Brain Development in Adolescents and Sex Education"
   
• Christopher Carmouche -- (Grasstops USA) "Internet Lobbying and Activism"
   
• Piero Tozzi -- (International Law Consultant) "Human Rights & International Law"
   
• Pastor Ed and Joanna Baird -- (Bruderhof Communities) "Bringing the Generations Together"

Other local speakers include: Dr. Lennox Bernard (Member of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago), Rev. Bertril Baird (Senior Minister  & International Consultant) Adrian Alexander (Caribbean Umbrella for Restorative Justice), Pauline McCarthy (Billings Ovulation Method Association of Trinidad and Tobago), Tonia Leacock-Gooding (Caribbean Institute for Family Development) and Rebekah T. Ali-Gouveia (WCF Caribbean Coordinator)

Leadership training will be provided by Miguel Moreno of the Washington, D.C. Leadership Institute. The conference will also feature a series of workshops, including "Sex Education and the Family" and "International Law, Human Rights and Religious Freedom."

Registration for the two-day conference is $400 TT ($65US) until May 31st and thereafter $600.00 TT ($94US).

Last year, Mrs. Ali-Gouveia and her team organized WCF's First Caribbean Conference, "Stabilizing Our Future; the Caribbean Conference on Life and Family Values," also in Port of Spain, April 27-28, 2012.  More than 200 participated in the conference, which was addressed by 16 local and international speakers.

World Congress of Families Managing Director Larry Jacobs said: "Rebekah did an outstanding job last year in putting together the first Caribbean pro-family and pro-life conference to defend the natural family.  Building on that success, we expect this year's event to make a significant contribution toward strengthening the natural family in Trinidad, and throughout the Caribbean, and combating the 'gender lobby' and other forces of social disintegration."

Click here for more information on Building A Culture of Life and A Civilization of Love, June 14-15 in Trinidad (wcfcaribbean2013.org).

World Congress of Families VII (May 15-18) just concluded in Sydney Australia.  World Congress of Families VIII is scheduled for Moscow, the Kremlin, September 10-12, 2014.

For more information on World Congress of Families, please visit www.worldcongress.org. To schedule an interview with Larry Jacobs, contact Don Feder at 1-508-405-1337.

The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society (www.profam.org) is located in Rockford, Illinois and is an independent, non-profit research and education center that provides sound scholarship and effective strategies to affirm and defend the natural family, thus renewing a stable and free society.  The Howard Center is the publisher of the journal, "The Family In America" and is also the organizer of the World Congress of Families (WCF) project which is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and inter-faith people of goodwill from more than 80 countries that seek to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the 'seedbed' of civil society (as found in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948).  The WCF was founded in 1997 by Dr. Allan Carlson, President of The Howard Center.  To date, there have been five World Congresses of Families -- Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004), Warsaw, Poland (2007) and Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2009).  World Congress of Families VI was held in Madrid, Spain in May 25-27, 2012.  World Congress of Families VII was held in Sydney, Australia, May 15-18, 2013, www.wcfsydney2013.org.au.