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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.
Christ Our Light Parish offers Mass for first responders
Chicago police officers and other first responders have the love and support of Christ Our Light Parish, Father David Simonetti, the parish’s pastor, said.
Precious Blood holds weeklong effort to promote peace
In the early afternoon of Sept. 23, people could be seen on the grounds of Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation in Back of the Yards walking a labyrinth and painting peace rocks.
Belmont Cragin parishes unite to demand peace, justice
On the sweltering afternoon of Aug. 28, with temperatures in the 90s with high humidity, more than 80 parishioners from St. John Bosco, St. James the Apostle and Sts. Genevieve and Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr parishes processed through the Belmont Cragin neighborhood, stopping to pray at locations where people were killed by gun violence.
6300 S. Bell Ave.
One of the benefits to my work as editor and journalist for Chicago Catholic is visiting many neighborhoods in Cook and Lake counties because the church and its members are there.
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