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The annual Diocese of Providence Office of Life and Family Ministry "March for Life" Bus Trip is set to arrive in D.C. on Friday, January 19, 2024. All the details and registration forthcoming as the date draws closer.

By Cole DeSantis, Rhode Island Catholic Correspondent - PROVIDENCE — “Standing up for life, I realize that the environment in which we do so has grown ever more contentious. But I think sometimes, strangely, that may be a sign of hope,” Bishop Richard G. Henning said at the opening of Human Life Guild Day on Oct. 28. (PHOTO: COLE DESANTIS)

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By Cole DeSantis, Rhode Island Catholic correspondent - PROVIDENCE — Local members of the pro-life community gathered for the Jericho Walk on Saturday, September 23. (Photo: Cole DeSantis)

Be a light in a darkened world…Help put an end to abortion through prayer…Bring your entire family. Life Chain is a peaceful and prayerful way to show a public witness to life. Please consider hosting a Life Chain event at your parish or call Lisa Cooley at 401-278-4518 or email lcooley@dioceseofprovidence.org to find a location near you...

We recently learned of the 250th abortion worker to become pro-life and quit her job. (And number 251 soon followed!)! This fall will see the 24,000th baby saved at a 40 Days for Life vigil! We're closing in on the 150th abortion facility to CLOSE following a 40 Days for Life campaign.! Milestones like these could be the result of God answering YOUR prayers! Find the 40 Days for Life vigil closest to you and sign up to pray this September 27-November 540 Days of peaceful prayer vigils and Rosaries for life and for an end to abortion - in collaboration with RI Right to Life. Sign up your parish or group for a day to pray! (Photo: RI Catholic)

From Wed., Sept. 27 through Sun., Nov. 5 we'll hold 40 days of peaceful, prayerful vigils and Rosaries for life and for an end to abortion at the public right-of-way outside 175 Broad St., Providence. 40 Days held in collaboration with RI Right to Life. Learn more or sign up now! (Photo: RI Catholic)

Meet us Sat., Sept. 23 at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick Church, 244 Smith St., Providence. Together we will walk to the RI State House and prayerfully walk around it three times for life. This event is the kick-off to our 40 Days for Life Fall 2023 campaign and is in collaboration with RI Right to Life.

The Diocese of Providence is hosting a Traveling Eucharistic Rosary Congress from Sat., October 7 through Fri., October 13, 2023. The Traveling Eucharistic Rosary Congress is a week-long period of intense, around-the-clock prayer consisting of Perpetual Adoration and Hourly Rosary, offered in a spirit of reparation. The Eucharistic Rosary Congress will travel to a different parish for each 24-hour period from October 7-13. Locally, seven parishes in the diocese will host one day of Eucharistic Adoration each, click for schedule.

Meet us Sat., Sept. 23 at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick Church, 244 Smith St., Providence. Together we will walk to the RI State House and prayerfully walk around it three times for life. This event is the kick-off to our 40 Days for Life Fall 2023 campaign and is in collaboration with RI Right to Life.

Register now to attend the Office of Life and Family Ministry's annual Human Life Guild Day, Sat., Oct. 28 in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Providence. The day begins with Holy Mass with Bishop Henning, immediately followed by brunch and three locally known speakers. Click for more and/or to register. (Photo: RI Catholic)

The HUMAN LIFE GUILD RECOGNITION AWARD is an award given by the Diocese of Providence on an annual basis to outstanding individuals that are Catholic who have a willingness to accept the invitation to be "People of Life,” to have an unconditional commitment to human life, to promote and defend human life at every stage, in every condition, through thought, word, deed and prayer. Click for nomination form. Deadline Sept. 22. (Photo: RI Catholic)

Join the Diocese of Providence at our upcoming peaceful, prayerful, and respectful activities for life - - supporting the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception to natural death. For details, please contact Lisa Cooley, lcooley@dioceseofprovidence.org, 401-278-2518. (Photo: RI Catholic)

“This year’s legislative session, as always, had its winners and losers but, in my opinion, the entire session was overshadowed by a black cloud with the passage of the so-called Equality in Abortion Coverage Act,” said Father Bernard A. Healey, director of the Rhode Island Catholic Conference. “Sadly now, Rhode Island taxpayers, including Catholics and others, opposed to the killing of the innocent unborn must fund abortions. It is a clear violation of conscience and an attack on the sanctity of human life. This was a major defeat in our state for the respect of human life and the common good.” (RIC file photo)

Novena honoring the Feast of the Visitation - click below to sign up!

The RI Senate will vote tomorrow, Thursday, May 18, on a bill (2023 -- H0032) that will allow for state taxpayer-funding for abortion-on-demand in Rhode Island, both through the state-managed Medicaid program and through state employee health benefits programs - - let them know you do not want to fund abortions...

Dear Brothers and Sisters, as you may already be aware, bills are moving forward in our state on the issue of taxpayer-funded abortion. I invite the Catholics of Rhode Island and all people of good will to...

Last week, the Vermont state legislature legalized assisted suicide for out-of-state residents. Becoming the first state to permit “assisted suicide tourism,” Vermont will now become a haven for any American seeking to end his or her life.

The Rhode Island House of Representatives is voting TODAY Thu., April 27 on a bill (2023 -- H5006) that will allow for state taxpayer-funding for abortion-on-demand in RI, both through the state-managed Medicaid program and through state employee health benefits programs, by removing statutory prohibitions thereupon that have been in place since the '70s. Please keep in mind that these prohibitions already permit state funding for abortions performed in the hard cases of rape, incest, life of mother. Please take a moment now to email your State Representative with a brief and respectful message that you *do not want your tax dollars paying for abortions.* Please share this action alert widely and spread the word. Click to email your state representative now.

The world-famous International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Fatima, which has been traveling since 1947, bringing the message of Fatima to a world in need, visited the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul during a tour of several R.I. parishes...