Crossroads Pro-Life

Now based in Arlington, Virginia, Crossroads was founded in 1995 by Steve Sanborn, then a student at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. The now-international organization was launched in response to a call by St. John Paul II during World Youth Day in Denver in 1993 - that youth around the globe take an active role in the pro-life mov... ement "to establish a culture of life." Sanborn and other Franciscan University students completed the first Crossroads walk across the U.S. in 1995 in 11 weeks, from San Francisco to Washington for a total of 3,200 miles. For several years, the organization has sponsored three simultaneous pro-life walks/pilgrimages across the United States; a fourth takes place in Canada. This year's three U.S. walks - northern, central and southern - started May 21-22 in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively. The U.S. walkers will end their sojourn Aug. 11-12 in Washington, with a pro-life rally to take place Aug. 13. Another walk took place in Australia in January, and a 5th will take place in Spain.Read More