Saint Sabina Church pastor has new anti-violence message

(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Anti-violence activists have launched a campaign to help focus on the families to keep more young people safe this summer.

Saint Sabina Church Senior Pastor Father Michael Pfleger knows this is just one effort to help young people, but he's launched an advertising campaign called ''Keeping Teens Alive.'' He wants parents to do more to keep their kids safe, including talking to them and even praying over them about violence.

“You're riding a bus or a train, you're gonna keep being reminded of this violence and hopefully ask yourself, ‘What can I do? What kind of impact can I make on my kids or the kids in my block or just in general?’

The faces of the ad campaign are parents who lost children to gun violence, like Chicago Fire Commissioner Annette Holt, and Pamela Bosley who helped start Purpose Over Pain, an organization for parents like her.

“We, we try to make people understand that our goal is for you not to get in this situation,” Bosley said.

Pfleger says guns fuel the epidemic.

Pamela Bosley agrees. Her son was gunned down outside a church in 2006. She wants more gun laws.

She says parents from her group went back and forth to Springfield pushing for new laws, but she says not one gun bill succeeded.

Local anti-violence messages are the topic of the At Issue Program this weekend and you can hear more, Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m.

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