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September 15, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Today is Day 3 of our fall fundraising campaign, and we have raised $21,038 of our $250,000 goal. We want to thank everyone who has donated so far! (To donate, click here) Our global truth-telling mission is entirely funded by a small, but very faithful army of thousands of readers just like you!

For anyone wondering why you should consider donating to LifeSite at this time, especially readers who have discovered us only recently, and how we use your generous donations to grow our mission – I’d love to explain!

In some ways, the answer is pretty straightforward. 

LifeSite is not just the #1 most visited pro-life website on the Internet. We’re also the only global news agency with a team of trained, professional, full-time journalists whose job it is to provide the BIG PICTURE perspective of the battle between the Culture of Life and the Culture of Death!

In fact, because of the increasing demand for our reporting around the world, we are constantly growing in order to reach more people – and I’d like to introduce you to our newest team members: 

Diane Montagna

Diane Montagna – Rome Correspondent 
A U.S. native, Diane began translating papal addresses under the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI for Zenit News Agency, and has served as a translator for the English edition of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Her work has also appeared in the National Catholic Register and the Humanitas Christian Anthropological Review. From 2014-2017, Diane served as Rome correspondent for the English edition of Aleteia.org. She has also taught children’s and adult faith formation classes, and holds a License in Sacred Theology from the International Theological Institute, Gaming Austria and a B.A. in Italian.

Angela Erickson – Support Staff
Angela began her work in the pro-life movement as a college student at St. Cloud State University. She graduated magna cum laud with a degree in Mass Communications- Advertising and a minor in Communication Studies. She previously worked as an executive director for a pregnancy medical center, and currently resides in Minnesota with her husband and two children.

We are incredibly blessed to have such an amazing and growing team to help us face the greatest issues of our time around the world: life, family, faith, and culture!

There is literally no other news website where you will find as much original, in-depth, professional reporting on every aspect of the war against life and family around the globe from a fearlessly, and uncompromisingly pro-life and pro-family perspective.

At LifeSite,we don’t just cover abortion. We cover gay ‘marriage’, the growing threat from gender ideology, euthanasia and assisted suicide, religious freedom, embryonic research, and countless other topics. And we reveal and educate our readers about how all of these attacks by advocates of the Culture of Death are interrelated!

LifeSite now consists of over 30 full and part-time professional pro-life journalists, editors, and support staff – dedicated 100 percent to fighting for life, family, faith, and freedom! Meanwhile, our dense website now hosts over 60,000 articles (and growing) going back 20 years, and welcomes some 25-30 MILLION visitors every single year!

And yet, we operate on a relatively small budget for organizations our size leaving every pro-life and pro-family leader we’ve worked with wondering in amazement how we accomplish all we do with such limited resources!

What you also might not know is that LifeSite is also much more than a news agency! 

In fact, there’s so much going on at LifeSite these days, that it can be difficult to keep up. Some of the other projects we have either launched or are involved in right now are:

  • LifePetitions.com – A complex, cutting edge pro-life petition platform built by LifeSite, is used by literally millions of pro-life grassroots activists like you to create real pro-life and pro-family change on the ground.
  • LifeFacts.com – An ambitious, ongoing effort to compile in one place the absolute best information and research on abortion and related pro-life issues.
  • Faithful Insight – A magazine launched by LifeSite aimed at high-information Catholic readers who are interested in getting the absolute best information about what’s going on at the Vatican and in the Church around the world related to the faith, life, family and freedom.
  • Voice of the Family – A coalition of lay pro-family groups co-founded by LifeSite in response to the confusion surrounding the Synods on the Family at the Vatican, and intended to defend traditional Catholic teaching on marriage and the family.
  • The Rome Life Forum – An annual conference in the heart of the Vatican, founded by LifeSite and now run by Voice of the Family, that brings together global pro-life and pro-family activists, as well as faithful members of the Catholic hierarchy like Cardinal Raymond Burke, and Cardinal George Pell.

On top of that, there’s the speaking engagements, conferences, media appearances, vital networking and strategizing with other pro-life leaders, long-term research projects on which our staff spend weeks or even months – all dedicated to one simple mission: to facilitate and generate cultural change for the protection and promotion of life and family.

For the past 20 years, LifeSite has been an almost completely crowd-funded independent news agency! It is only thanks to that growing army of many thousands of committed readers and supporters like you that any of this has been possible.

Meanwhile, the loyal support of our thousands of donors has left us completely free to report the hard (and, sadly, in our increasingly secular culture, often unpopular!) truths, without having to worry about losing one or two very major donors, government grants, big advertisers, or other financial interests! 

When it comes to our mission, LifeSite is answerable to God, who is TRUTH.

Please, support this truth-mission today with a donation to our fall campaign.

I always like to remind readers, especially those new to LifeSite, that by supporting the online campaigns, every dollar you give goes straight to funding this unique news service. Your donation does not go toward costly direct-mail fundraising. We don’t do those.

Nearly all of our staff work from their homes, so your donation is not used to pay for large overhead costs associated with maintaining office space. Instead, your donation directly supports the mission of LifeSiteNews: producing and delivering fearless, hard-hitting, truthful pro-life and pro-family news, analysis and commentary!

Here’s something to think about: today, between 150,000 and 200,000 people will visit our website to access our news reports. 

They will be leaders, activists, parents, politicians, and everyday readers who want to stay informed on breaking, always reliable, professionally-researched news related to life and family issues – written by journalists who are far freer than most to report the whole truth.

If even just 1 percent of the visitors to our website today alone donated $100 or more, we would reach our goal in a single day! If just 10% could give as little as $10, we would reach our goal!

Our readers have never let us down. In a world where the mainstream media controls so much of the information that people access, our readers have never taken LifeSite for granted! 

We, in turn, never take your support for granted! Every single donation we receive inspires us to work harder to spread the beautiful truth of the Gospel of Life to as many people as possible! We pray for you, our donors, every day. Thank you in advance for whatever you decide to give towards the LifeSite mission!