"The Church today is in the streets," said Father Jay Francis Flandez, a Divine Word missionary from the Philippines who serves as a chaplain to Filipino migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong.

"To know how to communicate displays great wisdom," the pope said in brief remarks during an audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall on January 25.

"Within our being, in our womb, there is a life," said Marcela Rojas, who lives in the Archdiocese of New York, and attended the march with a group of 75 people.

The Sisters of Life, the Knights of Columbus, and the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, united to present the two-day event, which drew almost 8,000.

“Babies are being left to die after failed abortions – denied care and basic human compassion."