Dec 29, 2020
MARQUETTE What do Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie and Houghton have in common? Students there as well as other Catholic ministries across the Upper Peninsula have benefited from #GivingTuesday.
The Diocese of Marquette said Lake Superior State University students received funding for their “home away from home” at the Newman Center there. The burgeoning music ministry of St. Albert the Great student parish serving Michigan Tech University students will be able to restore an organ built in the 1880s. Northern Michigan University students are “Lighting the Fire” with more than $11,000 raised to support their ministries.
This year in the Upper Peninsula, 178 donations totaling $32,673 were made to 45 different Catholic ministries. This amount doubled the $16K given for iGiveCatholic in 2019. For complete results of each organization, visit marquette.igivecatholic.org.
Los Angeles, Calif., Mar 5, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).- When Maya was just 19 years old, ISIS soldiers invaded her home in Baghdad, Iraq, and ordered that she and the rest of her Christian family either convert to Islam or pay a heavy fee to stay in their home. If they refused, they would be killed.
The family did not convert, but they tried to pay the fee. It wasn’t enough.
When the soldiers came back, they shot Maya’s brother in front of the family and kidnapped her sister. They warned that they would come back and kill the second daughter if the family did not leave or convert to Islam.
Dec 14, 2020
ESCANABA High school students, not only in the Escanaba area, but across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula will soon have an opportunity to receive a Catholic, classical education.
Holy Name High School in Escanaba will reopen after 50 years, beginning with the 2021-22 school year, offering both in person and remote learning.
A group of area educators, parents, alumni, supporters, and local pastors has been working toward this goal for several years. In January 2019 a major campaign under the slogan “Now is the Time” was publicly launched.
Funds were, and continue to be, raised to cover start-up costs and to help with operating costs over the first few years, as well as to fund an endowment to provide ongoing financial support for the school.