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Siouxland Catholic Radio 88.1 FM is preparing for two significant events next week. The 2026 Juried Youth Art Festival with the theme "Thankfulness for God’s Gifts” will be held at St. Boniface Parish Hall in Sioux City from March 17 to 19, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. This will occur during the same time as the Spring Pledge Drive at the KFHC studios, 701 W. 5th Street in Sioux City. These events are free and open to the public.

Bishop Emeritus Walker Nickless will be the guest speaker for the April 12 Divine Mercy Sunday event held at St. Michael Church in Sioux City. There will also be a novena each night at the shrine of Queen of Peace Trinity Heights, leading up to April 12.

CHAMPION, WISCONSIN – More than 10,000 pilgrims are expected for “America’s Mini-Camino,” the 13th Annual Walk to Mary on May 2, a 22-mile pilgrimage that begins at National Shrine of St. Joseph at Old St. Joseph Church on the campus of St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, and ends at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion – the first and only approved Marian apparition site in the U.S.

The youth of Divine Mercy Parish of Kossuth County and West Bend hosted an amore dinner in Algona to raise funds for parish youth ministry,