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Mourners pray during an April 8 vigil at Elgar Petersen Arena in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, to honor members of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team who were killed in a fatal bus accident.

In aftermath of Humboldt tragedy, faith leaders shared 'in their desolation'

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Fr. Joseph Salihu witnessed terrorist attacks while growing up in northern Nigeria.

Indigenous Canadians call for the acknowledgement of their suffering at a Toronto march in 2015.

Saskatchewan diocese hosting vigil for missing Indigenous people

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Prince Albert Bishop Albert Thevenot will host a prayer vigil in his diocese April 17 to remember the Indigenous people who have gone missing and their families who have been left behind.

Silent Voice camp counsellor and camper at Silent Voice's Sign Language Summer Program.

Catholic groups scramble for summer job funds

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Correction: A previous version of the story stated Matt Pascuzzo said the attestation came as a result of anti-abortion campaigners who used the jobs funding to aggressively campaign for criminal code sanctions on abortion. Pascuzzo did not make the statement. 

Agencies rejected for Canada Summer Jobs grants because they won’t tick the pro-abortion attestation box are scrambling to come up with private funds to cover the summertime services they provide to the poor.

Mourners embrace during an April 8 vigil at Elgar Petersen Arena in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, to honor members of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team who were killed in a fatal bus accident.

Prayers and tears for victims of Humboldt Broncos tragedy

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Crying, hugging and shaking their heads in disbelief, the people of Humboldt, Sask. gathered at the local hockey arena April 8 for an inter-faith service to mourn 15 people who died after the bus carrying the town’s junior hockey team collided with a truck.

Msgr. Kennedy celebrated his retirement at the Archdiocese of Toronto Pastoral Centre Aug. 31, 2016.

Msgr. Philip Kennedy led Catholic Missions in Canada for a decade

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Once a missionary, always a missionary. It didn’t matter whether bedridden with illness or looking off into retirement, Msgr. Philip J. Kennedy kept Canada’s mission territories close to his heart.

A man gambles on casino slot machines.

Faith leaders battle Sudbury casino

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More than 50 faith leaders, including Sault Ste. Marie Bishop Marcel Damphousse, have banded together to oppose a $60 million casino project on the eastern edge of Greater Sudbury.

Auxiliary Bishop Marc Pelchat of Quebec, pictured here in 2017, said Quebec bishops have discussed limited ordination of married men to help fight the priest shortage.

Quebec bishops ponder possibility of married priests

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QUEBEC CITY – The Catholic bishops of Quebec have discussed the possibility of ordaining married men to priesthood.
Faith opens up wallet for international aid, study finds

Faith opens up wallet for international aid, study finds

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Faith is the force Development and Peace counts on when they ask for money. A new study by the Angus Reid Institute shows they have the right idea — but also that it may not be enough.

Students in an ESL class at St. Andrew's Catholic Elementary School in Toronto.

Special education, mental health funding given helpful boost in Ontario public schools

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A pre-election $625 million injection of cash into Ontario’s education system has put a smile on the faces of Catholic school trustees as they anticipate more help dealing with mental health issues in the student body and the spiralling costs of educating special needs students.
The Carmelite sisters run an orphanage for albino children in Mwanza, Tanzania.

Albinos’ plight sends Canadian into action

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ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – Abandoned. Beaten. Ostracized. Dismembered. Children in Tanzania with albinism face rejection and brutal attacks due to local superstitions about their condition.

Levi and Kaitlyn Breederland with their young family.

For converts, Easter brings sense of relief

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EDMONTON – Levi Breederland and his wife Kaitlyn feel a strong sense of relief as they approach Easter — after months of preparation they will finally be received into the Catholic Church.
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