CNA Staff, Jan 19, 2024 / 13:40 pm
The March for Life, one of the largest annual human rights demonstrations, is taking place today, Friday, Jan. 19, in Washington, D.C. While it’s too early to know just how many people came to the nation’s capital to march in the snow this year, typically hundreds of thousands of pro-life people participate in this massive demonstration calling for greater respect for life in all its stages.
Whether you made it to the capital or not today, you can still join with other pro-life people to pray for an end to abortion. For a decade now, the U.S. bishops have encouraged people everywhere to join in prayer for the legal protection of children in the womb, in particular by way of the 9 Days for Life novena.
Sponsored each year since 2014 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, the novena — a traditional Catholic practice consisting of a nine-day series of petitionary prayers — coincides with Jan. 22, the anniversary of the now-overturned 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, as well as a special day for pro-life prayer in the Catholic Church.
Each day of the novena — which began Jan. 16 — participants pray for a specific intention related to ending abortion and are provided with “a short reflection and suggested actions to help build a culture of life.” You can still sign up for the novena by visiting this website.