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Calling on clerics to be “courteous” to combat political polarization...

Catholic Bishops call for ‘full strength’ of church to fight gun violence

Bishops discuss gun violence
by: Jack Jenkins BALTIMORE, Nov. 11, 2019 (RNS) — As the 2020 election season heats up, leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opened their annual fall meeting (Nov.Read More

Showing how faith and forgiveness healed Charleston church shooting survivors

Wheaton College screens new documentary ‘Emanuel’

By Tom Siebert WHEATON, Ill., June 11, 2019 — Gun massacres are a common occurrence in American life. During this year alone in the United States, there have been moreRead More

The attack Saturday came exactly six months after a mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue.

Worshipper saved grandson in California synagogue attack

by: The Associated PressPOWAY, Calif., April 28, 2019 (AP) — When gunfire erupted inside a Southern California synagogue on the last day of Passover, Shimon Abitbul recalls he immediately placedRead More

Only GoFundMe account by City of Aurora

Aurora launches GoFundMe campaign for mass shooting victims

Wheaton students join the March for Our Lives – The Wheaton Record

March 29 2018 On Saturday, March 24, hundreds of thousands of protesters, including Wheaton students, participated in the March for our Lives in Washington, D.C. to “demand that their livesRead More

A day after March for Our Lives, Pope urges youth to speak out

(CNN) A day after hundreds of thousands of people protested gun violence at March for Our Lives events in the US and around the globe, Pope Francis called on the world’s youth to continue speakingRead More

Marchers in Oswego call for action on gun control: ‘The young people are giving me hope’

Marchers turned out in Oswego to participate in the March for Our Lives movement started by students from Parkland, Fla. Source: Marchers in Oswego call for action on gun control:Read More

Join the march to end gun violence this Saturday, but let the youth lead – Baptist News Global

This is how the church will keep the next generation in our community: by providing them space to lead us, and join them in the revolution of peace they areRead More

Parkland Community Supports Students During Walkout

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were among the thousands of students across the country who took part in walkouts to protest gun violence on Wednesday.Read More

For many years, the USCCB has supported a federal ban on assault weapons

Domestic Justice and Education Chairmen Urge Concrete Actions to Address Scourge of Gun Violence

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WASHINGTON, March 5, 2018 —In the aftermath of the tragic attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, Chairman of theRead More