Catholic Families Answer the Call to Foster Children
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Nearly half a million children in the U.S. are in need of a home. At Catholic Charities West Michigan, we help provide a loving and supportive environment for 300 foster children each day. With the support of our amazing foster parents, our goal is always to reunify the children with their birth parents. To learn more about the state of foster care, be sure to read this article, featuring an interview with our CEO Chris Slater, from the National Catholic Register.
You can read the full article here: https://bit.ly/2Z6KzsA.
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Catholic Charities Uniting Children with Loving Families
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Throughout Catholic teaching, caring for orphans and vulnerable children is a consistent theme. Foster care and adoption are two critical vehicles for putting that teaching into action, vehicles that Catholics and Catholic institutions have long championed. In speaking about adoption, St. Pope John Paul II called it “a great work of love,” as well as “a true exchange of gifts.”
More recently, Pope Francis reiterated that for “those who live in the peripheries,” including children who have felt rejection or who have faced difficult family circumstances, “we must offer the best we have.” You can read the full article here: https://bit.ly/2YYUtft.
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Survey from Aid to the Church in Need
According to a new poll, 46% of U.S. Catholics say the global persecution of Christians is “very severe” - an increase of more than 16% compared to a year ago; and 58% of U.S. Catholics say they are “very concerned” about the plight of their fellow faithful - a figure up by 17% from February 2018. To read the full article, visit here: https://bit.ly/2yYEvaR.
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Agency Book-Read Continues
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