About 20 people are physically abused by an intimate partner every minute in the United States. To mark October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month and raise awareness of the issue, a Mass was organized Oct. 7 in Washington.
Mass highlights what Catholics can do to support victims of domestic violence, recognize abuse
Advocates say big events like Super Bowl are good time to raise awareness of human trafficking
Advocates for trafficking victims say big events like the Super Bowl and events surrounding them are a “danger zone” for sex and labor trafficking and domestic violence.” 2023’s Super Bowl LVII will be played Feb. 12 between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.
Social ministry ‘fundamentally a work of faith,’ cardinal says
The Mass celebrated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory came on the final day of the Jan. 28-31 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering. The meeting addressed workers’ rights, migrants and refugees, housing inequities, hunger and food insecurity, poverty, climate change, systemic racism, gun violence, restorative justice, abortion, domestic violence, and “pro-woman and pro-family policies.”
Speakers address how local churches can protect lives of mothers and their unborn children from domestic violence
The ways Catholics can accompany pregnant women subjected to violence by their partners, and those who counsel abortion — was the subject of a Jan. 29 session of the 2023 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, “Peace Starts Here: Healing Wounds from Abortion and Domestic Violence.”
Churches criticize Ukraine’s OK of Council of Europe women’s convention
In a rare disagreement with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government, Ukrainian churches have criticized ratification of a Council of Europe Convention on combating violence against women, warning it risks imposing “gender ideology” on their war-torn country.
At meeting in Florida, U.S. bishops decry Sessions’ asylum decision
The U.S. bishops June 13 decried U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision that asylum seekers fleeing domestic or gang violence cannot find protection in the United States.