Vigils and other protests are on-going in Chicago, IL.  The 8th Day Center for Justice conducts a weekly protest in front of the Federal Building.
Sister Dana Sullivan, CSC (left) was arrested in a March 25 civil disobedience action protesting the invasion of Iraq. Here Dana is shown with two of her "cell mates" - James and Sue Berg.	Dana Sullivan, CSC (right) and Miriam Todoroff, BVM at the weekly silent vigil at the Federal Building
On the day after the bombing of Iraq began, 350 people gathered at a Not in our Names demonstration in South Bend.  The demonstration was initiated by the Holy Cross International Justice Office and the Sisters of the Holy Cross Justice Office and involved a coalition of over 13 churches and other peace organizations.  Many members of Holy Cross, including the entire Leadership Team of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, participated.
Sister Linda Kors, CSC (playing guitar) accompanies singers from Saint Mary's College.	The crowd gathered in the plaza outside the Morris Center for the Performing Arts for opening prayers of lamentation.
Rashied Omar recites a passage from the Qu'ran.	Sister Mary Ellen Vaughan, CSC and Father Robert Pelton, CSC carry the HCIJO banner.
Sister Mary Turgi, CSC (left) leads participants (including Sisters Joanne Becker and Anna Mae Golden, CSC and Father Tom McNally, CSC front row) in the closing reflections and prayer.	Sister Jeanette Fettig, CSC (right) joins other demonstrators in reflection on the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Thomas Merton.
	Pat McGowan, CSC (Moreau seminarian) closes with a phrase of activist Dorothy Day: "No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless.  There's too much work to do!"

From South Bend, Indiana
The South Bend community participated in a rolling wave of candlelight vigils that were held in over 100 countries around the world on Sunday, March 16.

The South Bend community joined people around the world as they marched for Peace on February 15, 2003.