Human Life International

Pro-Life Catholic Missionaries to the World

Pro-Life: Following the teaching of the Catholic Church, we defend life from the moment of conception until natural death for every human being.

Missionaries to the World: Our Catholic teachers and trainers work with those of all faiths and cultures all around the globe. We bring the Gospel of Life to places where the culture of death is only beginning to encroach on what are always, naturally, pro-life societies; or where it has already taken root. In many countries, HLI and its affiliates are the pro-life movement.

Our Mission

The mission of HLI is to create effective opposition to the culture of death around the world. With 99 satellite offices in 87 countries, Human Life International is the largest international pro-life organization and missionary in the world.

Empowering Families Around the World

HLI believes the specific concerns and needs of local communities can be best identified by those who live there. Thus, our world headquarters, located in Front Royal, Virginia, is an educational apostolate devoted to empowering our international leaders and the people they serve.

Train, Organize, and Equip

In fulfilling this mission we strive to train, organize and equip pro-life leaders around the world. While we are completely faithful to the Holy Father and the Magisterium, we are also ecumenical and work with people of all faiths to advance the cause of life.

Since our founding in 1981 by Reverend Paul Marx, O.S.B., HLI has sponsored more than 70 international conferences and over 50 conferences in the United States. By means of our pro-life missionary trips, we've also advised, inspired and trained pro-life leaders, families, seminarians and students in approximately 160 foreign lands. The methods we employ in each country depend upon the varying needs of the people and regions we are working in:

• In El Salvador, HLI's affiliate persuaded lawmakers to amend the constitution so as to secure and protect "the life of the unborn from conception."
• In Tanzania, HLI's teen chastity outreach programs brought to national attention the United Nation's designs to force young people to use defective condoms; HLI's detective work resulted in the destruction of over 10 million condoms.
• HLI's office in Ireland prevented Dutch abortion ship Aurora from circumventing Ireland's pro-life laws.

We've also helped many of our satellite offices:

• Found crisis pregnancy centers
• Teach young couples Natural Family Planning 
• Inform parents about the dangers of secular sex education
• Train seminarians to be pro-life priests
• Equip counselors to advise families in crisis
• Educate civic leaders on pro-life issues
• Host pro-life and pro-family radio and television programs
• And much more!