Student Walkouts over School Safety Planned Across Twin Cities

Walkouts in metro area push for weapons ban

Metro-area students are speaking up after last week’s mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church. WCCO TV reports “students in the Twin Cities are set to stage walkouts, demanding state and federal lawmakers pass bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.” The walkouts started at noon and are planned in cities like Eagan, Hopkins, Stillwater and more. Related events are planned later in the afternoon at the Capitol. A Minneapolis ar…

Student walkouts over school safety planned across Twin Cities

Walkouts are planned at dozens of schools across Minnesota and the U.S. on Friday in response to the Annunciation Church shooting.

Sept. 5 rosary planned for Annunciation shooting victims, community amid ‘heroic virtue’

ST. PAUL, Minn. (OSV News) — The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ Office for the Mission of Catholic Education has asked people to pray the rosary at 10 a.m. CT Sept. 5 for those affected by the Aug. 27 shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis that killed two schoolchildren and injured 21 others. Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis will lead a livestream of the rosary via the archdiocese’s Facebook page…

Annunciation shooting: Twin Cities students plan school walkout for Friday

Following the mass shooting at Annunciation Church, students across the Twin Cities metro are planning to take part in a nationwide school walkout on Friday pushing for changes to gun regulations.

Area Catholic school students to show support for Annunciation shooting victims

COLLEGEVILLE — St. Cloud area Catholic school students are showing support for the victims of the Aug. 27, 2025, shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church. The shooting in Minneapolis killed two children and injured 21 other people while they were attending Mass on the first day of classes. Students at St. John’s Prep organized a walkout at noon on Friday, Sept. 5, to protest gun violence, according to a news release from the school. “A group of …

Sept. 5 rosary planned for Annunciation shooting victims, community amid 'heroic virtue'

Flowers fill bullet holes on a Holy Family statue outside Annunciation Church in Minneapolis Sept. 2, 2025, which was the scene of a shooting Aug. 27. The shooter opened fire with a rifle through the windows of the church and struck children from the parish school who were attending Mass during the first week of school, killing two and wounding 21 others. OSV News photo/Tim Evans, Reuters The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ Office for t…