Mother's Day Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Paraguay==== In [[Paraguay]], Mother's Day is celebrated on 15 May, the same day as the ''Dia de la Patria'', which celebrates the [[History of Paraguay#Independence of 1811|independence of Paraguay]].<ref name=paraguay1/> This date was chosen to honor the role played by Juana María de Lara in the events of 14 May 1811 that led to Paraguay's independence.<ref>{{citation|title=Session of the Honorable Cámara de Senadores. Señor Senador Diego Abente Brun|page=25|url=http://www.congreso.gov.py/senadores/archivos/diarios/341S-13.doc|language=es}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 2008, the Paraguayan Minister of Culture, Bruno Barrios, lamented this coincidence because, in Paraguay, Mother's Day is much more popular than independence day and the independence celebration goes unnoticed. As a result, Barrios asked that the celebration be moved to the end of the month.<ref name=paraguay2/> A group of young people attempted to gather 20,000 signatures to ask the Parliament to move Mother's Day.<ref name=paraguay2>{{citation|title=Buscan que se cambie fecha del día de la madre|date=14 May 2008|work=Radio Viva 90.1 FM Paraguay|url=http://www.radioviva.com.py/articulo.php?ID=2478}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 2008, the ''Comisión de festejos'' (Celebration Committee) of the city of [[Asunción]] asked that Mother's Day be moved to the second Sunday of May.<ref>{{citation|date=27 July 2008|title=Hoy miércoles 27 de agosto se inician las acciones de la Comisión de Festejos por el Bicentenario, con una retreta en la Plaza de los Héroes|author=Municipality of [[Asuncion]]|url=http://www.mca.gov.py/noticias/270808_2.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090510082053/http://www.mca.gov.py/noticias/270808_2.htm|archive-date=10 May 2009}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page