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40 Days for Life International Symposium Barcelona

January 30 - February 2 / 2025

Master of Ceremony: Robert Colquhoun
Time Act/Presentation Speaker Room/Place
Friday 31th
15:00-17:00 Check in and registration n/a Foyer Europa
17:30 Confessions & Holy Mass Fr. Paul Felix and other Priests Europa 1
19:00 Welcome reception   Foyer Europa
19:45-22:00 Gala Dinner   Europa 2 & 3
19:45-19:55 Welcome words Tomislav Čunović Europa 2 & 3
20:00-20:15 Opening prayer and spiritual reflection: The Abortion Clinic as the Place of Configuration to Christ Fr. Paul Felix Europa 2 & 3
21:15-22:00 Abortion in America: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly Shawn Carney Europa 2 & 3
Saturday 1st
07:00-08:45 Breakfast   Palmer Restaurant 14th Floor
09:00 Learn History, Make History Shawn Carney Europa 2 & 3
09:35-10:15 Testimony: Former director of Planned Parenthood Ramona Treviño Europa 2 & 3
10:15-10:35 Coffee break & Networking   Foyer Europa
10:40 The Light on the Mountain? Abortion in America & the World Matt Britton Europa 2 & 3
11:15-11:55 Science and faith at the service of human dignity Bishop José Ignacio Munilla Europa 2 & 3
12:00 Lunchtime & Networking   Salas Fira
13:40-14:20 Testimony of Saved Baby in Madrid Eneida Martínez Europa 2 & 3
14:25-15:05 Spiritual Warfare in the Pro Life Movement Fr. Francesco Giordano Europa 2 & 3
15:10-15:30 Coffee break   Foyer Europa
15:35-15:55 Why 40 Days for Life? Tomislav Čunović Europa 2 & 3
16:00-17:10 Panel. Questions & Answers Robert Colquhoun & all speakers Europa 2 & 3
17:20-17:30 Closing remarks Shawn Carney Europa 2 & 3
18:00 Confessions & Holy Mass Father Paul Felix and other Priests Europa 1
20:00-22:00 Dinner   Salas Fira
SUNDAY 2nd
  Checkout    Lobby
09:00 International Holy Mass (optional)   Sagrada Familia

Speakers

Shawn Carney

CEO and Co-Founder 40DFL

Shawn Carney began as a volunteer in the pro-life movement while still in college. During this time, he helped lead the first-ever local 40 Days for Life campaign. After graduating from college, Shawn was asked to serve as the executive director of the Coalition for Life, a local pro-life organization in Texas made up of more than 60 churches.

From the beginning of 40 Days for Life, Shawn has been instrumental in growing the organization nationally and then internationally. Shawn is a regular media spokesperson, and his work has been featured on hundreds of outlets, including Fox News, The Laura Ingraham Show, the Drudge Report, the Guardian, USA Today, and Christian media including the Christian Post, National Catholic Register, Sirius XM Catholic Radio, EWTN Radio, and Focus on the Family. Shawn is one of the most sought-after pro-life speakers, addressing audiences coast to coast and internationally. He has executive-produced award-winning pro-life documentaries.

Shawn co-authored the #1 top-rated Christian book 40 Days for Life: Discover What God Has Done … Imagine What He Can Do and What to Say When: The Complete New Guide to Discussing Abortion. He also authored the national bestsellers The Beginning of the End of Abortion and To the Heart of the Matter. Shawn lives in Texas with his wife and eight children.

Matt Britton

Board Ex-Officio and General Counsel

Matt has had an expansive legal career, including four terms as an elected prosecutor; a county attorney; counsel to many not-for-profits and U.S. companies operating around the world; a major law firm litigator; and general counsel. Matt has written and spoken countless times on a wide range of legal and pro-life issues in locations across the United States, England, Japan, Colombia, Mexico, Korea, Singapore, Brazil, China, and locations across the European Union. Most importantly, Matt is married to Libby Britton, and they have eight beautiful children and seven grandchildren.

 

Ramona Treviño

Outreach Director 40 Days for Life

Ramona Treviño worked as the manager of a Planned Parenthood abortion referral facility in Sherman, Texas until 2011 when God used the prayers and public witness of a 40 Days for Life campaign to move her to leave her job and reclaim her walk with Christ. Ramona’s resignation from Planned Parenthood resulted in her former centre going out of business.

Ramona has shared the miracle of her conversion and the goodness of Christ’s mercy throughout the U.S. and internationally through speaking engagements as well as print, broadcast, and online media.

Ramona is a wife, mother, and grandmother. She is the author of Redeemed by Grace: A Catholic Woman’s Journey to Planned Parenthood and Back.

Father Paul Felix

Chaplain & Board Secretary 40 Days for Life

Fr. Paul Felix was born the fourth of six children and raised in Houston, Texas. He earned a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of St. Thomas and a Master of Divinity from the University of St. Thomas School of Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Galveston-Houston in 1990.

Fr. Paul serves as spiritual director for clergy, seminarians, and laity, assisted as a confessor and presenter in numerous Aggie Awakening Retreats, assisted as a confessor at numerous youth retreats at Camp Kappa, provided spiritual direction in ACTS Retreat Ministry, is a frequent teacher for RCIA and other adult education events, serves as Retreat Master for Archdiocesan Project Rachel Retreats for post abortive women, and participated in a mission trip to catechize and evangelize promoting devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe to Kerala, India. He is a 4th degree member of Knights of Columbus, a founding member of the first group of Jesus Caritas Fraternity of Priests in the Archdiocese, participant in the Opus Dei Circle of Priests, and was promoted to the rank of a Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Tomislav Čunović

Of Counsel, Executive Director International Affairs, 40 Days for Life

Tomislav is based in Frankfurt, Germany, and serves as 40 Days for Life’s executive director for international affairs. Tomislav has practiced law in Germany since 2008 after studying law in Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands with a focus on international law and human rights law. He has handled a wide variety of matters and litigation in both business and pro-life law. Tomislav has served as legal counsel to several German and Croatian pro-life NGOs and pro-life activists.

In 2017 he started the first 40 Days for Life vigil in Frankfurt with two friends and helped to spread the 40 Days for Life mission in Germany. 

Don Francesco Giordano

Director of Human Life International in Italy
Don Francesco is professor of theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, earned a master's degree from the University of Chicago, and a doctorate in systematic theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

The first of three brothers born in different countries around the world, Don Francesco had a great love for the Catholic faith from a very young age, in an international perspective. For this reason, his decision to become a priest was welcomed as a natural choice. Don Francesco affirms that the love for the traditional liturgy and the good example of many priests and bishops was the key to discerning his own vocation, and the friendships developed in America aroused in him a commitment to the defense of life and family.

Mons. José Ignacio Munilla

Bishop Orihuela-Alicante, Spain
José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre was born in San Sebastián on November 13, 1961. He began his ecclesiastical studies at the Major Seminary of Toledo and completed them in San Sebastián. He was ordained a priest in San Sebastián by Monsignor José María Setién on June 29, 1986, at the age of 24. Later, at the age of 30, he obtained a licentiate in Theology with a specialization in Spirituality from the Faculty of Theology of Northern Spain, based in Burgos.

He is well-known for his collaboration with Radio María, where, even before becoming a bishop, he began a daily explanation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which he later continued with the explanation of the YouCat Catechism for young people. Currently, he hosts the program Sexto Continente on the same radio station twice a week.

On various social media platforms (X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok), he shares a brief daily message and publishes daily Gospel reflections on YouTube, as well as numerous conferences and interviews developed throughout his ministry. All of this evangelization work is compiled on the multimedia website enticonfio.org.

He is bishop of Orihuela-Alicante diocese in Spain.

Eneida Martínez

Mother
She is Colombian, born in Puerto Santander on the border with Venezuela. She is a mother and has been living in Spain for some years. Her life story demonstrates how God's love can make all things new

Robert Colquhoun

Director of International Campaigns, 40 Days for Life
Robert is based in London, where he led the first 40 Days for Life campaign in England. The vigils were held outside a BPAS abortion facility that, after several campaigns, stopped doing abortions and eventually closed its doors. Robert has helped the 40 Days for Life mission spread across the United Kingdom. He now assists local leaders coordinating 40 Days for Life efforts in nations as widespread as Australia, Croatia, New Zealand, Russia, and South Africa.