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Summer 2011 Pro-Life Walks Across America

WASHINGTON, DC – Crossroads is excited to announce that we are sponsoring a record FOUR pro-life walks across American this Summer! Starting on May 21st in Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles, these walks will continue for 12 weeks and end together in Washington, DC on August 13th.

Canada Walk for Life Wraps Up on Parliament Hill

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario – A group of young Canadians concluded their 5,000 km. cross-country walk for life this Saturday in Ottawa, where they were welcomed on Parliament Hill by dozens of Ottawa pro-life supporters, including Archbishop Terrence Prendergast. The group of six arrived at the Hill around noon, where they were awarded…

Young Woman Chooses Baby’s Life Over Her Own

The story of Benny Abreu, a young woman from the Dominican Republic, has moved Floridians because of her testimony to motherly love.The Florida woman suffered from serious heart problems and preferred to die rather than abort the baby she was carrying. Abreu, 25, graduated from Florida Central University at the beginning of May and decided…

Summer 2010 Pro-Life Walks Across America

SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & CANADA – For the 16th summer in a row, students from colleges and universities across the country will be walking with Crossroads on our THREE simultaneous pro-life walks across America. These summer long walks start on Saturday, May 22nd in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and will end together…

Pro-Life Encounter Changed Olympian’s Life

By Kathleen Gilbert LifeSiteNews.com LEEDS, England – As America’s team of Olympic women speed skaters compete in the Vancouver Winter Olympics this month, one prodigy once expected to shoot to stardom in the sport won’t even be watching the broadcast. Twelve years ago, while only seventeen, Kirstin Holum placed sixth in the 3,000 meter race…

Crossroads Attends 2010 March for Life

WASHINGTON, DC – Volunteers with Crossroads handed out over 15,000 free pro-life bumper stickers at this year’s annual March for Life. Over 300,000 people converged on our nation’s capitol to attend the 37th Annual March for Life. A large amount of the people attending this year were young people that wanted to take an active…

Crossroads Program Walks for Life

“Why am I pro-life?” Dave Bathon asked on Nov. 3, at Campus Ministry’s Dinner and Discourse. He began his talk by telling a personal story to his audience. “I had a mother who had cancer and she was given the choice of keeping me or having an abortion in order to save herself … she…

Trek Across the Country Reveals a Pro-Life America

After weeks of witness on the road, in church youth groups, and in front of abortion clinics, forty young people will end their three simultaneous cross-country pro-life walks across America in Washington, D.C on Saturday. The walk organizer said the endeavor helped women to reject abortion and revealed significant pro-life support. Three groups of young…

40 College Students Finish Walks Across America

WASHINGTON, DC – This Saturday, August 15, 40 young people from colleges around the country will converge as their 3 simultaneous cross-country walks across America conclude in Washington, D.C. With a group called Crossroads, they experienced firsthand the reality – supported by several recent polls, including one from Gallup–that a majority of Americans self-identify as…

Student is a Walking Witness

by Cathy Dyson College student Mary Alling is spending her summer taking steps – mile after mile of them – to share her belief that every unborn child has the right to life. As soon as the Spotsylvania County resident finished her first year at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, she went to California…