Gina Christian

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Few frowns among Catholic nonprofits as AmazonSmile closes

January 20, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: News, World News

Amazon said in its statement that it would close AmazonSmile by Feb. 20 since the program’s impact was “often spread too thin” among the more than 1 million registered organizations worldwide.

Like MLK, Catholics are called by Christ to move ‘from altar to street’

January 16, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, News, Racial Justice, World News

As the nation celebrates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 16, both personal conversion and action are needed to build what the slain civil rights leader called “the beloved community,” said Catholic clergy and lay leaders.

Catholics organize to bring the fight to ‘demonic’ human trafficking

January 14, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Respect Life, World News

According to the United Nations’ International Labor Organization, 49.6 million people lived in modern slavery in 2021, with 27.6 million in forced labor (6.3 million of which were in forced commercial sexual exploitation) and 22 million in forced marriage.

What’s Lourdes’ secret? The Eucharist, reveals shrine’s chief medical officer

January 13, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Each year, some 3 million pilgrims — many with terminal medical conditions — visit the shrine in southwestern France, site of 18 Marian apparitions to St. Bernadette Soubirous, who was a young teenager in poverty and could neither read nor write at the time.

Illinois bishops, clergy grateful for new assault weapon ban

January 12, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News

Catholic leaders in Illinois are hailing the state’s newly enacted ban on assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and switches.

U.S. military archbishop visits Ukraine’s military chaplains

January 9, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News

Ukraine’s Catholic military chaplains will eventually be “catalysts for the rebuilding” of their war-torn nation, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, whose three days in Ukraine included at times sheltering with Ukrainians as Russian missiles relentlessly rained down on civilian centers.

Few frowns among Catholic nonprofits as AmazonSmile closes

Like MLK, Catholics are called by Christ to move ‘from altar to street’

Catholics organize to bring the fight to ‘demonic’ human trafficking

What’s Lourdes’ secret? The Eucharist, reveals shrine’s chief medical officer

Illinois bishops, clergy grateful for new assault weapon ban

U.S. military archbishop visits Ukraine’s military chaplains

Dioceses, bishops across the nation celebrate Masses in honor of Pope Benedict XVI

U.S. extends TPS for Yemeni people fleeing ‘world’s worst humanitarian crisis’

Catholic high school prays for critically injured Bills safety and alumnus

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