Mgr. Michaela Freiova

Mgr. Freiova was active in the Catholic dissident movement in communist Czech Republic. Her family was persecuted for participating in the dissemination of samizdat.

After the fall of the communist regime she was appointed a Government Commissioner for Refugees. She also served as a member of the Federal Parliament of post-communist Czechoslovakia.

She is a widely recognized lecturer as well as a writer on religion, family and women´s issues in the Czech and Slovak media.

In 1994 she joined the recently founded Civic Institute and ran the Family Values Program there for more than ten years. The program initiated a series of World Congresses of Families, beginning in Prague in March 1997.

In 2003 Mgr. Freiovastarted an internet news service Res Claritatis, the only online news magazine in the fields of religion, society and politics in the Czech language.

In 2005 it started to be published also in printed form. She obtained her M.A. at Charles University in Comparative Religion.