Catholics for Abolition in North Carolina (CANC) is hosting its third peaceful protests day. It’s happening Thursday, Oct. 10, which is the World Day Against the Death Penalty.
Nancy Jones, co-founder and director of CANC, shared that at 3:30 p.m. there will be an anti-death penalty rosary prayed inside the chapel of Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral. Following the rosary, the group will make the 1.4-mile march to Central Prison in Raleigh for a peaceful protest on a sidewalk outside the facility.
A dinner break was scheduled for 5:30 until 6:45 p.m. and, at 7 p.m., a closing ceremony with other groups at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church.
The CANC group met last year for a similar event, which drew about 35 participants, Jones said.
They also had a table at the Diocese of Raleigh’s Eucharistic Congress last year, which began the centennial year of the diocese.
“We … reached out to hundreds of people there. We invited folks who stopped by to write a CANC postcard to Governor Cooper requesting him to end the death penalty. We collected 100 postcards!”
Jones said about 28 parishes were represented on the postcards, some of which were written in Spanish.
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