Video series urges collegians to ask questions on life issues

DENVER — Ahead of the first March for Life since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) launched the “Love Life” video series to better equip college students to engage on the abortion issue. The post-Dobbs landscape means the fight to end abortion is more at the state and community-level and college campuses are on the front lines of these evolving abortion laws and conversations. FOCUS’ new “Love Life” video series (https://focusequip.org/introducingthe-love-life-video-series/) provides practical talking points on the pro-life issue, encouraging students to ask and tackle these tough questions. The 11-part video series features a range of prominent pro-life voices, from Dr. Ryan Anderson explaining why unborn people are people to Kristan Hawkins sharing how abortion abuses women. Irene Zamorano Archacki, a post-abortive woman, shares her healing journey in a compelling “Love Life” interview.

Other voices include FOCUS Founder and chief executive officer Cur- tis Martin on the pro-life aspect to the New Evangelization, Father Josh Johnson on the Church’s teaching on abortion, Life Sister Maris Stella on walking alongside abortion-minded women, and David Bereit on how abortion is more than a religious issue.

John Bishop, director of FOCUS formation, conducts the “Love Life” video interviews and sees this project as an extension of FOCUS’ outreach to the world and culture, saying, “The ‘Love Life’ video series is one way FOCUS, through the New Evangelization, intends to positively influence the pro-life movement.

“We utilize YouTube and other social-media platforms, not as replacements for FOCUS’ important ministry, but as aids to our person-to-person work on campuses and in parishes,” Bishop said.

FOCUS is a Catholic apostolate whose mission is to share the hope and joy of the Gospel. FOCUS missionaries encounter people in friendship, inviting them to a personal relationship with Christ and accompanying them as they pursue lives of virtue and excellence. Through Bible studies, outreach events, mission trips and discipleship, missionaries inspire and build up others in the faith, sending them out to live out life- long Catholic mission wherever they are.

For the 2022-23 academic year, 861 missionaries are serving at 216 locations: 193 campuses (including eight international campuses and 10 Digital Outreach campuses) and 23 parish locations.

By 2027, FOCUS expects to have more than 1,000 missionaries serving in more than 250 locations around the world.

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