by Juliann Ventura | Nov 30, 2023 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Topics
WASHINGTON – Members of Congress put aside their partisanship on Wednesday to meet with families of hostages held by Hamas, who called on them to continue their urgency in getting more hostages released. Hamas and Israel had released more than 250 hostages and...
by Juliann Ventura | Nov 16, 2023 | Politics
VIRGINIA– As election day in Virginia’s 31st District neared, Candice Skinker said that she became so overwhelmed with the number of negative political ads in her mailbox that she just started dumping them into the trash. “We’ve been inundated with ads in the...
by Juliann Ventura | Nov 9, 2023 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality, Social Justice
WASHINGTON – Fifty protesters gathered for a “pray-in” in Lafayette Square on Thursday afternoon, holding signs directly facing the White House that said, “Catholics say ceasefire now.” The Catholic and Christian-led prayer service was meant to urge President...
by Juliann Ventura | Nov 7, 2023 | Featured, Politics
Voters in Virginia will have a chance to elect new lawmakers to all 140 seats in the General Assembly when they head to the polls today, potentially shifting control of the state legislature. Virginia will vote under new district maps for the first time since...
by Juliann Ventura | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured, Social Justice, Topics
WASHINGTON– Twenty-five years after the U.S. government enacted a law promoting international religious freedom, supporters of the act decried the rise of Islamophobic and antisemitic incidents within the U.S. following increased violence in Israel, Gaza and the...
