America Needs Fatima
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America Needs Fatima (ANF) is a campaign of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP). Its stated goal is to: “win the heart and soul of America for Mary by spreading Our Lady's Fatima message and promoting devotion to Her Immaculate Heart.”[1]
The effort was begun in 1984 under campaign directorship of American TFP member C. Preston Noell III. Leadership of the campaign changed to American TFP member Robert Ritchie in 1994, who remains as executive director today.
Throughout its more than twenty years of existence, ANF has received letters of support for its initiatives from dozens of American bishops as well as hundreds of priests and religious.
ANF is action-oriented and has organized pro-life rallies and anti-blasphemy protests, distributed millions of fliers, established a home visitation program enthroning statues of Our Lady of Fatima and published books.
To date, ANF members have distributed millions of fliers describing the Fatima message and promoting the book: Fatima: Prophecies of Tragedy or Hope. They have also distributed fliers on other issues, including protest fliers against dozens of blasphemies.
In addition to Fatima: Prophecies of Tragedy or Hope, which has over 100,000 copies in circulation, ANF has also published an illustrated children's book titled: Jacinta’s Story that received encouragement from over twenty U.S. bishops.
Since 1996, ANF has visited over 10,000 American homes in forty-nine states with pilgrim Virgin statues of Our Lady of Fatima. The program of these visits includes a statue crowning, a short audio-visual presentation about Fatima and praying the rosary.[2]
ANF also has experience organizing anti-blasphemy rallies. The most notable anti-blasphemy campaign they sponsored was against the film: The Da Vinci Code[3], in which they arranged more than two thousand theater protests nationwide, as well as major demonstrations outside the Sony headquarters in New York[4] and Los Angeles.
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- ^ http://www.tfp.org/anf/anf_profile.html 1
- ^ http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/jubilation/s_347211.html 2
- ^ http://blog.washingtonpost.com/countyconnections/2006/05/fight_over_da_vinci_code_comes.html 3
- ^ http://www.prolifeaction.org/hotline/2006/0626.htm 4
