Preparedness Month 2014
by Fr. John A. Peck ~ Guest Blogger National Preparedness Month is almost upon us, and in light of that, I thought a quick look at why being prepared makes sens...
Tag: News
Patriarch Bartholomew On The Present Violence In Iraq
The recent wave of violence against innocent families and children in Iraq has rendered the world shocked and horrified. We will not remain indifferent or silen...
Let The Little Children Come To Me
I am not a policy maker or someone who is charged with enforcing the law. I am a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and as such, sometimes ministry comes i...
FOCUS North America opens free health center
FOCUS North America recently opened the FOCUS Pittsburgh Free Health Center to provide free, quality physical and mental health care and pharmaceutical and lab ...
IOCC Assists Syrian Families Seeking Refuge In Northern Iraq
Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Syrian refugee families wait patiently for their turn to receive emergency relief items from a distribution center in northern Iraq’...
The Confederate Flag at Washington and Lee
For the past few months, students at Washington and Lee University have been petitioning the University Administration to remove the Confederate Flags that are ...
IOCC Responds to Victims of Flood Ravaged Midwest
Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Rivers across the Midwest are surging over their banks, flooding cities and sweeping away summer crops as they fail to contain record sum...
Thousands of American military graves lie forgotten and lost abroad
We don’t know how many Americans who died while serving during wartime are buried on foreign soil. Why? For one, there isn’t a single organization that tracks t...
Patriarch Bartholomew’s Homily in Jersualem
“Do not be afraid; for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay....
Pope Francis’ Homily in Jerusalem
[Remarks as prepared for delivery] In this Basilica, which all Christians regard with the deepest veneration, my pilgrimage in the company of my beloved brother...