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April 2020

April 30, 2020

Please help feed hungry people in Uganda

The pandemic is playing havoc with the supply chain in poor countries. My friend Fausta...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

Scenes from the Genocide in Yemen

This is being done to human beings in Yemen: The people doing this to the...

January 03, 2020

On this Friday in Christmas…

it is only fitting that God's beloved poor be made sharers in the great feast...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

Today’s chance to do a work of mercy

A reader writes: I would like to ask for your prayers for Abner, a boy...

November 25, 2019

Our chance to do a work of mercy

A reader writes: I am a little hesitant to ask you to use your bully...

September 2019

September 10, 2019

A chance to do a work of mercy

Fausta Nalubega writes from Uganda: Dear friends of Mercy For Life Africa ministries, we are...

September 09, 2019

Please help save Olivia’s leg

My friend Fausta Nalubega writes from Uganda: Olivia’s surgery will cost 766$, she will be...

April 2019

April 08, 2019

Almsgiving Monday 5 – Fr. Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries offers a moving speech

You can go here to support the work of Homeboy Industries being as how this...

March 2019

March 18, 2019

Almsgiving Monday 2: Mercy for Life

This Almsgiving Monday I want to recommend to you for your financial support the work...

March 11, 2019

Almsgiving Monday 1

I decided to try something a bit different this Lent. The classic Lenten practices are...

February 2019

February 12, 2019

Simcha Fisher Has a Great Idea

No matter how many times you make clear you are prolife, the the phony "prolife"...

February 11, 2019

Our Sister Shalimar Masters and her Family Need our Help

From the GoFundMe that has been set up to help them: For those of you...

November 2018

November 19, 2018

So Here’s a Joyous Story!

One of my readers, Ross Earl Hoffman, knew a good thing when he saw it...

October 2018

October 24, 2018

Signs of Hope

Reader (and soon to be author) Stephanie Thomas writes: I live my faith by working...

July 2018

July 13, 2018

Mary Pezzulo of Steel Magnificat could really use your help

Mary gets by on a wing a prayer and they have a little kid they...

June 2018

June 20, 2018

Please help a family that has suffered a great tragedy

A reader writes: This family belongs to our parish in Atlanta. The Go Fund Me...

May 2018

May 21, 2018

A chance to do a work of mercy

This is Cynthia Tisdale. Some time back her husband was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. ...

May 15, 2018

Reader Delali Adadzie writes from Africa….

Hi uncle Mark, I need a favour/favor from you. I have just started a website...

April 2018

April 11, 2018

Please pray and help if you can!

A reader writes: Hi Mark, this is a prayer request and a little bit of...

March 2018

March 21, 2018

Australia Religious Sisters Fundraiser

A reader writes: I hope you’re keeping well! I’m writing because I wanted to let...

March 20, 2018

Deaths in Puerto Rico have doubled since the storm

...and nobody notices or cares. If you want to help Puerto Rico, Charity Navigator is...

March 20, 2018

I love this story of the Church acting like the Church to the homeless

A Church opens its pews to homeless people who just need to sleep: Lack of...

March 05, 2018

Help Reader Valerie Riggins Fesh in her Fight for Suicide Prevention

She writes: theovernight.org/participant/Valerie-Fesh Please feel free to tell your followers something about why I am...

February 2018

February 25, 2018

Prayer Request and a Chance to Do a Work of Mercy for a Brother and Sister in Need

Dear Peeps: Please help with your prayers and as much dough as you can muster....

January 2018

January 06, 2018

Prayer requests and chances to do works of mercy

A reader writes: Please help Dale and Suzanne Florence-Zavatter, two colleagues of mine facing the return...

January 05, 2018

Please help this family in need after a fire

A reader writes: Would you consider sharing my friend's go fund me? They are a...

January 04, 2018

A Chance to Do a Work of Mercy

Charlie Camosy writes: I have some terrible and heartbreaking news to share about my friend...

December 2017

December 09, 2017

Please help a little girl with serious health issues

A reader writes: Mark, will you do me a favor please and share this fundraiser...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

Fr. Hugh Barbour seek our help…

...to save refugees: The war and conflict in Syria have left thousands of people destitute...

November 13, 2017

Please help a little girl who needs surgery!

Reader Jeff Anderson writes: My good friends Matias and Ines Sicardi from Argentina have a...

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