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Churches in South Chicago unite to pray for peace in community

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Immaculate Conception Parish in the South Chicago neighborhood regularly held peace marches to pray for its community. With its march on the evening of Oct. 5, the now united Immaculate Conception-St. Michael Parish joined with nearby Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish to revive the event.

‘We pray that this peace walk touches someone’s heart’

Students at the Academy of St. Benedict the African, 6020 S. Laflin St., sang and prayed for peace as they led donors, parents and other community members around their block Oct. 19.

Block Masses bring ‘the church out of the church’

When Father Marco Antonio Franco celebrated Mass in the middle of Spaulding Avenue on the evening of July 27, on a day when temperatures topped 90 degrees and the heat radiated off the asphalt, more than 100 people gathered to pray together, to support one another, to demonstrate their faith publicly and to bring the church out into the neighborhood.

Waukegan parish hosts city’s first gun buyback event

When Most Blessed Trinity Parish in Waukegan hosted its city’s first-ever gun buyback event on April 29 in partnership with the Waukegan Police Department, 166 firearms were collected along with rounds of ammunition.

South Shore parish trains youth to practice nonviolence

A group of parishioners from St. Josephine Bakhita Parish in the city’s South Shore neighborhood is taking action to reduce violence by training youth in middle school and high school to identify violence in their lives and communities and respond with nonviolence.

To conquer violence church must ‘stand in the breach’

If the church wants to prevent or respond to violence in the community, it must go to uncomfortable places.

Women religious hold monthly vigils to pray for homicide victims

The last Saturday of every month, a group of sisters from various religious communities gather at the site of a recent homicide to pray for peace and healing.

St. Sabina kicks off weekly summer peace marches

Hundreds of people gathered at St. Sabina Church June 17 for the first of the parish’s Friday night peace walks this summer.

Parish launches Peace of Christ campaign to address violence

When a parishioner was randomly shot in the middle of a weekday at a gas station, it rocked the members of St. Benedict the African Parish in Englewood.

Academy of St. Benedict students walk for peace in community

Students at the Academy of St. Benedict the African, 6020 S. Laflin Ave., gathered as one group for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic struck to pray for peace in their community on Oct. 21.
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