JOHN SMEATON, DIRECTOR OF SPUC: Students at pro-life conference in Nigeria today

Thursday, 5 June 2014

Students at pro-life conference in Nigeria today

Antonia Tully, Pat Buckley, and I are speaking at the Nigerian Catholic Bishops' Pro-Life conference today in Abuja at the National Christian Ecumenical Centre. I have just been chatting to students from Benin University:

They travelled for six hours this morning to take part in the conference. That's pro-life commitment! And thank God for the Nigerian bishops!

Students and other delegates have been coming to SPUC's information desk:

Seen here manning the stall is Jean Fleuron, a SPUC volunteer from Newcastle who came independently to attend the conference. Jean is developing a pro-life outreach to Nigerian Catholics in the UK.

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About Me

I became involved in SPUC after graduating, when I established a branch in south London in 1974. I have worked full-time for SPUC for 42 years. I became chief executive of SPUC in the UK in 1996, having been general secretary since 1978. I was elected vice-president of International Right to Life Federation in 2005. At UN conferences in Cairo, Copenhagen, Beijing, Istanbul and Rome, I helped coordinate more than 150 pro-life/pro-family groups resulting in pro-life victories in Cairo, Istanbul and Rome. I was educated at Salesian College, London, before going to Oxford where I graduated in English Language and Literature. I qualified as a teacher, becoming head of English at a secondary school. I am married to Josephine. We have a grown-up family and we live in north London.