UTAH, July 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a surprise move, the United Nations has granted accreditation to Brigham Young University, a post-secondary institution run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose representatives have played leading roles at the international level of the battle for family values. The accreditation of the university’s David M. Kennedy Center as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) “gives us the ability to participate in virtually every important policy meeting held at an international intergovernmental level,” said Richard Wilkins, a professor of International Law at BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School and director of the World Family Policy Center.
Prof. Wilkins, along with some of his colleagues, has attended many UN meetings over the past three years since the World Family Policy Center was established. Prof. Wilkins says that the center is small, but he confidently declares that he has found that “it takes a very small candle to light a very dark room.” The World Family Policy Center is co-sponsoring the World Congress of Families II In Geneva from November 7-10 of this year with the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society of Rockford, Il. They are expecting delegates from over 100 nations. The center hosted the First Annual World Family Policy Forum in January. That meeting was attended by diplomats and UN delegates from approximately forty Muslim, European, African, Asian and North and South American nations.
Throughout the world pro-family people are circulating “A Call From the Families of the World” petition which will be presented at the November meeting. They hope to be able to present one million signatures at that time in support of the traditional family.