This year promises to be an important one for American Life League’s Crossroads, the pilgrimage that walks across America each year to raise awareness of the evils of abortion. Instead of walking coast-to-coast like they do every other year, the college-age student walkers will divide into two groups: one will walk from San Francisco to Toronto, Ontario, and the other will walk from Sarasota, Fla., to New Orleans, where they’ll be welcomed as honored guests at American Life League’s Annual Celebration of Life World Family Conference. From the conference, the walkers will team up with other students and make a bus pilgrimage to meet the other walkers in Canada to see the Pope at World Youth Day.
What really sets this year apart from all others, however, is the addition of film crews to document the groups’ journeys, step-by-step, mile after mile.
Each group of walkers will have a forward team—a two-man crew that will capture on film everything that happens on the walk. At the end, the collected footage will be edited into a feature documentary for airing on EWTN. For the first time since the inception of Crossroads, millions of Americans will be able to look into the lives of the walkers. They’ll witness the sacrifices each of these walkers makes, and the hardships they endure. Most importantly, though, they’ll come to understand how, in surrendering these hot and dusty miles to God, their own lives will be forever changed and uplifted as they march on behalf of Him and His babies.
In the past, walkers have been able to convey their pro-life message to those they meet directly, or who drive past them on the road. With the increased exposure of the documentary, they’ll affect millions more, in every state, and in many countries worldwide. Abortion is an evil that is not going to just go away; these courageous walkers have the power to stop it. As more people are educated to its evil and destructive nature, more will join in the fight to stop it.
Update from the Road
From Adam Redmon, director of American Life League’s Crossroads pilgrimage.
“Each year Crossroads encounters violations of our Constitutional rights. We see that someone (or something) is threatened by Cross-roads and wants to put a stop to what we’re doing. This year the opposition was a little more blatant than the rest. As the San Francisco group started across the Golden Gate Bridge, the Crossroads walkers were stopped by the bridge patrol and ordered to remove their pro-life T-shirts. The patrolmen said that the pro-life T-shirts were distracting to drivers, and threatened Crossroads with fines and jail time if they didn’t comply. Seeing the injustice in this and the dangerous implications of such an action, American Life League contacted its lawyers. The lawyers advised Crossroads of their rights and encouraged the walkers to fight. For seven years now, we have crossed the country with these T-shirts, and not once have our pro-life shirts caused an accident. Crossroads walkers appeared on national TV where one of our walkers proudly wore the above-mentioned T-shirt and boldly stated American Life League’s mission. If you would like to proclaim the pro-life message in solidarity with the walkers, visit www.crossroadswalk.org and order a T-shirt just like the ones the walkers are wearing. More importantly, please keep these young pilgrims in your prayers this summer while they are out there in the trenches, proclaiming the pro-life message to all of America.”
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