Participants pray to end violence and promote peace during the ninth annual Sunrise Prayer Service and Mass at Oakwood/41st Street Beach, 4100 S. Lake Shore Drive, on Aug. 25. Worshippers gathered to pray for peace and the healing of families, schools and communities. The event is sponsored by the Black Deacons of Chicago.
Standing up to persecution After Martin Luther King Jr. and a group of peaceful demonstrators were tear-gassed by police in June of 1966 in Canton, Mississippi, the pastor of the local Catholic church, Holy Child Jesus, sheltered the marchers.
Little Village’s Padres Angeles changing hearts, promoting peace On Nov. 17, 2012, Doris Hernández’s son Freddy, 20, died after being shot in the face and chest while standing in an alley in Little Village. Following the shooting, she attended a vigil for him held at the scene and where his blood was being washed off the pavement. About 80 people were there.
Bishop: Shootings show 'all communities are affected by racism' Three mass shooting incidents in the United States in the span of a week are now showing that "their emotional impact is resonating, understandably, across the nation," said Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism.