Familienbund der Katholiken FDK
Reinhardtstrasse 13, 10117 Berlin
fon: +49 (0)30 3267560 fax: +49 (0)30 32675620
info[at]familienbund.org, www.familienbund.org

The Familienbund der Katholiken (FDK) is a politically independent, denominational family association that fights for the strengthening and support of family rights and their basic conditions on a national and international level. The Familienbund works as contact and lobbyist for all families and is engaged in the representation and coordination of family concerns in church, state, society and politics. The Familienbund works for families on all political levels as well as within the church. The Familienbund der Katholiken has been founded in 1953 in Würzburg. In the federal association members are the diocesan and regional associations as well as its member associations. Individual memberships like families or groups of families usually exist within the diocesan associations.

Confédération Nationale des Associations Familiales Catholiques (CNAFC)
28 place St Georges, 75009 Paris
fon: +33 148788161 fax: +33 148780735
cnafc[at]afc-france.org, www.afc-france.org

The « Associations Familiales Catholiques »( AFC ) was founded in 1905. Today there are 350 local AFC associations all around France and in the over sea departments, and 73 regional federations. All in all about 30 000 families are AFC members.

AFC supports and promotes the family within the society, referring to the values of the Catholic Church and its Social Doctrine. The objectives of AFC are the promotion of family based on marriage as the basis of the society and assistance to all families who wish support, whether they are catholic or not. In order to help families and convey these convictions AFC is engaged and represented in social, economic and political issues. AFC is recognized by the French State as being of public utility and is a member of the National Family Association ( UNAF ), a public family interest organization.

Family Solidarity Ely House
8 Ely Place, Dublin 2
fon: +353 01 6611113 fax: 353 01 6611114
familiysolidarityireland[at]gmail.com, www.familysolidarity.org

• Family Solidarity: An Irish voluntary lay organization founded over 20 years ago to promote the interests of the family in Ireland.
• Membership: at present about 2,200 members

Our activities:

• A newsletter published 5/6 times a year mailed to members and available on our website
• Family Solidarity is one of a number of organisations entitled to make a pre-budget submission each year to the Minister of Social and Family Affairs. In 2006 our submission called for
• a reduction in the penal level of Stamp Duty paid by Irish families on moving house and the removal of the  “tax individualization “ system which penalises families where one parent does not go out to paid work. We were unsuccessful.
• We work with and encourage other Christian groups such as the Pro-Life Movement, Youth 2000, Youth Defence, and the Christian Solidarity Party which is the only Irish political party committed to Christian principles
• We are fully behind the work of the Irish M.E.P
• Kathy Sinnott in her opposition to embryo research
• Family Solidarity is using its resources to support the efforts of a young man, Ronan Mullen to be elected to and provide a Christian voice in the Irish parliamentary upper house, the Senate
• Members of our National Executive are presently part of an initiative funded by the Knights of Saint Columbanus to find out, by the professional use of focus groups why Irish people do or do not support Christian marriage and to find effective ways to convince people that Christian marriage is the only basis for a healthy society

Forum delle associazionie familiari (FORUM)
Lungotevere dei Vallati No. 10, 00186 Roma
Fon: +39 06 68309445, Fax: +39 06 45405740
forum[at]forumfamiglie.org, www.forumfamiglie.org

The Forum of family associations was founded in 1992 in Italy with the objective of bringing “family as a social subject” to public debate, on a cultural and a political level. Today 50 national associations participate in the Forum, and there are regional Forum sections in each Italian region.
 
The Forum’s work is intended:

• To promote and protect the values and the rights of family as “natural society based upon marriage” (Italian Constitution, 1947, Dec. 27th, articles 29, 30, 31). 
   
  To reassign to families the right of citizenship, in order to take their own place in the political life of the Country, for family is a social subject to promote, not a weak subject to help.
   
  During these 16 years of strong work, the Forum achieved the following goals: to make Italian public opinion more aware about family; to urge the participation of families to associated activities; to develop practical proposals on which Institutions and Associations can converge.

Katholischer Familienverband Österreich (KFÖ)
Spiegelgasse 3/3/9, 1010 Wien
Fon: +43 1 515523201  Fax: +43 1 515523699
info@familie.at

The Katholische Familienverband was founded in 1953 and is the biggest politically independent family organisation in Austria based on nine diocesan associations. Cardinal DDr. Franz König was the founding father of the Catholic Family Association. The then officer for family affairs of the Episcopal Conference König said in his inaugural speech in September 1953: “A society in which families with children run the risk of falling below the poverty line shows up its own shortcomings.”

The Katholische Familienverband of Austria acts in the interest of all families. We strengthen the families and promote the social recognition of their contributions. Political work and service for the families are our mission.
The Katholische Familienverband has 60,000 member families throughout Austria and works with full-time and voluntary personnel.

Lithuanian Family Center
Rotuses a. 23, Kaunas
Fon: +0037 068210748
algis.petronis[at]gmail.com

The Movement “Family Centre of Lithuania” (FCL) has been founded by the Lithuanian Bishops’ Conference. The mission of this network organization is the development and support of families on the basis of the principles of the Catholic social ethics. The main activities of the LFC are: the coordination of the activities of the 55 diocesan family centres in the field of:

- Preparation of the youth for family life;
- Sacramental marriage: the preparation of  engaged couples; 
- The development of family support and community programs;
- Training of the staff and volunteers for family centres; 
- Development of didactic material; 
- Advocating family interests;
- Encouragement for social activities;
- Fund raising for the maintenance of the family centres.

Hnutie Krestanskych
Rodin na Slovensku (HKRS)
Francisciho 3, 81108 Bratislava
Fon: +421 (0)244461896
Fax: +421 (0)244461896
vdurikovic[at]post.sk

The CFM in the Slovak Republic was founded in 1969 by the married couple Vladimír and Maria Ďurikovič. In 1990 it was registered with the Ministry of Justice as a Civil Counsel. The spiritual leaders of CFM are Cardinal J.CH. Korec and the Slovak Bishop Conference. It works throughout Slovakia. The main object of the Movement is to help creating good social and spiritual conditions, developing good relationships and raising the educational level for married couples and families. In this context several weekend FIRES programs play a significant role: the Original Marriage Encounter; the Marriage Retorno; the Son and Daughter Encounter; the Engaged Encounter; the Family Encounter, etc. The vacation exchange programme for Slovak and foreign children and the preparation of family trips in summer and in winter are very attractive for the participants. CFM organizes educational courses for animators, coordinators of FIRES programs, Family Communities and other CFM programs. It organises marriage and family seminars, conferences and general family reunions. With respect to edition work CFM publishes books for married couples, families, children and for single adults. The periodical FAMILY COMMUNITY followed by the periodical FAMILY were continuously published from the year 1985. They have a great importance for the formation of family policy, its opinion and spirituality.  The several years of cooperation with the FAFCE and the International Confederation of Christian Family Movements (ICCFM) have had a fundamental influence on good family relations and the formation of family policy in Slovakia.

Katholischer Familienverband Südtirol (KFS)
Dr. Streiter Gasse 10/B, 39100 Bozen
Fon: +39 0471974778, Fax: +39 0471973823
info[at]familienverband.it, www.familienverband.it

The Katholische Familienverband Südtirol (KFS) with its 16,000 member families is the biggest politically independent and Christian-socialist special interest group for all families in South Tyrol. More than 1,000 volunteers have been working country-wide for over 42 years in more than 120 local agencies for the benefit of families. We fight for the social recognition of families, for family-friendly living conditions, for financial justice, for the reconciliation of family life and work, for the representation of family interests in all crucial political and social bodies and we look after and support families who are in distress through no fault of their own. We achieve this amongst others through initiatives and activities in the field of family education, family pastoral care, family allowance, family policy and family recreational events.

Assoziation der Familienzentren ACER
Pruchodni 2, 60200 Brno
Fon: +42 05 42214865, Fax: +42 05 42214865
ncpr[at]volny.cz, www.rodiny.cz

The Association of Family Centres (ACER) is a civic association in the Czech Republic uniting ecclesiastical and civil family organisations with a Christian orientation. Its objectives comprise the implementation and promotion of the positive values attached to the marriage based family. It operates in the field of family pastoral care in all Czech dioceses as well as in family policy and programmes for children, youth and families in different phases of their life without confessional competency.
ACER was founded in 2001 and incorporates 13 family centres with 46,000 people participating in its activities each year.

Magyar Katolikus Családegyesület
Városligeti fasor 45, 1071 Budapest
Fon: +36 1 2661962, Fax: +36 1 2661962
katcsal[at]katolikus.hu

The Hungarian Catholic Family Association (UKF, founded in 1993) is an independent association, officially accredited by the Hungarian Catholic Episcopal Conference and a registered association in accordance with the civil law. Its activity is based on the catholic social doctrine with a focus on marriage and family, life preservation, family policy and education. These objectives are being promoted through information brokering (publications, conferences, speeches, meetings, education), through support by the relevant scientific research and in a dialogue with society. There is a cooperation with domestic and international institutions and with social groupings whose objectives are not against those of the UKF.  Catholic individuals and married couples who want to be members of the UKF have to practice their faith and have to be willing to work for the implementation and the evolvement of the catholic marriage and family ideal as well as to cooperate with the family pastoral centre of their diocese individually or in a group, respectively to participate in the programmes instigated by the UKF. Relations officers for family affairs are responsible for the organisation of the UKF in each Hungarian diocese.