The Frankfurt 40 Days for Life vigil is once again taking place this Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday. For 40 days, we pray and fast for LIFE. Peacefully and lawfully. This is now the seventeenth campaign in Frankfurt, held twice a year since 2017. The group has never done anything wrong, as has been confirmed multiple times in court. All accusations made against the Frankfurt group and other 40 Days for Life groups across Germany have always been based on lies and manipulation by pro familia and its accomplices in politics and the media. In court, these accusations have consistently proven to be baseless rumors.

FRANKFURT, GERMANY 31th MARCH 2025 .- This year, however, the vigil had to maintain a distance of 100 meters from the *pro familia* counseling center near Frankfurt's Palmengarten. This is required by the new discriminatory “special law” (SchKG), which, based on the latest ruling of the Federal Administrative Court, will hardly withstand future judicial review and should never have been enacted in the first place (see decision of May 23, 2023 – BVerwG 6 B 33.22;).

But even after the law came into force, and despite pro-life activists across the country being massively criminalized and forced to keep a 100-meter distance from pro familia counseling centers or other abortion centers, there are already voices claiming that this is still not enough. It is also noteworthy that the Frankfurt vigil should not fall under the scope of this law, as no sidewalk counseling takes place there – something that was even indicated beforehand by the assembly authority. Nevertheless, the authority was reportedly instructed by higher officials to allow the prayer gathering only at a minimum distance of 100 meters.

Furthermore, after several disruptions in March 2025, the Frankfurt vigil can now only take place under heavy police protection. There have also been criminally relevant disturbances and hostilities in previous years, and it was always said that the vigil would have to be relocated ^{1 2} .

Now, the prayer group has voluntarily relocated the vigil – out of earshot and line of sight from the pro familia counseling center – but the aggression against pro-lifers is increasing, not decreasing.

There are almost daily disruptions and provocations against the Frankfurt vigil by masked and violence-prone extremists. On March 17 and 18, 2025, the disruptions were so massive that the police were completely caught off guard and had to call for reinforcements to deal with around 15 masked agitators.

It is shameful and shocking that in a cosmopolitan and culturally diverse city like Frankfurt am Main, peaceful praying Catholics with migrant backgrounds can be attacked and threatened in broad daylight on public streets during a peaceful and lawfully registered prayer vigil – by masked and xenophobic mobs – without those responsible facing serious legal consequences.

While some pray quietly and peacefully, the agitators are foaming with hatred and rage. Violence and intimidation are their tools of communication – and this is no surprise, since they also hate and do not love the unborn child, who is violently liquidated before it can be born.

Anyone who dares to publicly advocate for the unborn children condemned to death must therefore also be hated in the streets, defamed in the media, and “politically liquidated.” Political correctness demands that the intentional killing of an unborn child in the womb be trivialized as abortion, pregnancy termination, or even just pregnancy interruption.

But if the word “murderers” appears on the front facade of pro familia in Frankfurt’s upscale Westend – as happened about three weeks ago – the outcry is huge. As the saying goes, hit dogs bark the loudest. And pro familia certainly gives plenty of reason for such a label.

The various pro familia associations and organizations not only operate over one hundred counseling centers across the country – where, among other things, “abortion permits” are issued – but also run several allegedly independent and commercial abortion centers in Germany, placing themselves in a blatant legal conflict of interest. This calls into question both their recognition as counseling centers under §9 SchKG and their charitable status.

Moreover, pro familia is a founding member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the synonym for the global racist abortion lobby, which profits from the suffering of people in Africa and South America by killing unborn children.

In light of this, pro familia should not act so hypocritically, for beneath the sheep’s clothing hides a ravenous wolf with blood on its jaws.

And where is the outcry from the media and politicians when about 100,000 children are violently liquidated in the womb each year in Germany – and over 40 million worldwide – with pro familia playing more than a minor role in this? Where is the outcry from the official churches? Where is the outcry from feminists and other useful idiots when millions of girls worldwide die in the womb each year simply because they are girls? Deafening silence everywhere you look.

Let us remember: according to the German Basic Law, unborn children are entitled to human dignity, and the state has a duty to protect unborn life.

But instead of protecting endangered unborn children more effectively, the abortion lobby and its lucrative abortion business are being better protected by special laws – while peaceful pro-life advocates who dare to stand up for the dignity of unborn children are being intimidated by masked street mobs, placed under general suspicion by special laws, and criminalized. Freedom of assembly and freedom of speech are being rendered absurd.

Welcome to Frankfurt's Westend 2025 – birthplace of "repressive tolerance."

Yet even in the face of this great injustice, our response remains peaceful prayer, for we know that we live in a time where anyone who stands for the sanctity of life will be fought and attacked in every conceivable way.

But we also know that, just as darkness must give way to light, hatred and violence must also yield to peaceful prayer.

Praised be Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother Mary – may they assist us!

Frankfurt, March 31, 2025  
40 DAYS FOR LIFE GERMANY

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