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To provide tools to improve family relationships, the International Congress of Families 2024 was held in Guadalajara, Mexico, from March 1 to 3, 2024.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was one of the principal organizations of this event that brought together 8,000 visitors and featured more than 60 specialists and leaders of several national and international organizations dedicated to strengthening the family.
Elder Hugo Montoya, First Counselor in the Mexico Area Presidency said that when it comes to strengthening the family, the sum of our differences makes us one and we can do more, “just like the fingers of our hands.”
On the first day of the congress Elder Montoya spoke in the panel entitled “Why Are We Here?” where other participants included Juan Carlos Flores, Secretary of Education of the State of Jalisco; His Eminence Mr. Cardinal D. José Francisco Robles, Archbishop of Guadalajara; Dr. José Félix Coronel, international director of Redime; and Dr. Allan Carlson, founder of the International Congress of Families.
Elder Montoya referred to the well-known adage “union makes strength” and applied it to the “great project of strengthening families.”
“We appreciate cultural diversity and respect individual differences, but when it comes to strengthening the family, we realize that the harmonious sum of our differences makes us one, and it is in unity that we can do more,” Elder Montoya said.
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