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This year’s closing liturgy for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Toronto drew an extraordinary number of archbishops, bishops and national church leaders. Among those leading the prayers were: the general secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton, Lutheran bishop Michael Pryse, Toronto Anglican archbishop Colin Johnson, Roman Catholic archbishop Thomas Collins, Coptic Orthodox bishop Mina, Catholic Slovak bishop John Pazak and Assyrian Church of the East bishop Emmanuel Joseph Mar-Emmanuel.

Toronto Christian unity service filled with hope

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TORONTO - Dave Williams happened into the closing liturgy for this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity entirely by chance. He wandered into Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, saw what was happening and immediately called his wife, Beverly John.

By the end of the service, Williams and John were convinced they had stumbled into something important.

St. Joseph the Worker parishioners from Thornhill, Ont., raised money and lent their labour to fund the building of homes for the poor in San Felipe de Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.

Mission-vacation concept takes hold at Thornhill parish

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THORNHILL, ONT. - In 1987 Elio Madonia, then in his 50s, sold his business, retired and with his wife went on vacation to the Dominican Republic with plans to continue enjoying retirement in Florida.

CSJ Office for Systemic Justice director Sr. Sue Wilson.

St. Joe’s Sisters spearhead call to protect migrants

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TORONTO - Pope Francis called for “the globalization of charity and co-operation” on the 101st World Day of Migrants and Refugees, but the Sisters of St. Joseph may have beaten the Pope to it with their submission to a United Nations commission in early January.

Gillian Fernandopulle left her Sri Lankan homeland as a refugee at age six. Despite being in Canada for the past 20 years, she says being a refugee is something that never leaves you.

A refugee is always an outsider

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TORONTO - At 20 Tarak has been divorced from everything — his family, his home, his childhood and a future that once seemed assured.

Aid to the Church in Need spokesperson Marie Claude Lalonde, right, speaks with Montreal Archbishop Christian Lepine. Lalonde says that in 60 per cent of countries around the world, religious liberty is compromised.

Christianity's survival in Mideast highly unlikely

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MONTREAL - The long-term survival of Christianity in the Middle East is threatened and “humanity in the region where Christianity was born will not be the same without it,” a spokesman for Aid to the Church in Need told a seminar in Montreal this week.

A homeless man takes advantage of St. Felix Centre’s 24-hour warming station during an extreme weather alert in Toronto earlier this month.

St. Felix Centre teams with city to stay open during deep freeze

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TORONTO - Catholics in the city have forged relationships with secular partners to provide the homeless somewhere safe and warm during the sometimes fatally freezing temperatures of Toronto’s winter.

Fr. Joseph Chandrakanthan holds a 16th-century lamp believed to have been used by St. Joseph Vaz in Sillalai, Sri Lanka.

Toronto priest treasures saint’s lamp that kept flame of faith alight

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TORONTO - A light in the darkness has travelled across centuries, cultures and continents to wind up in Fr. Joseph Chandrakanthan’s living room in Toronto.

A Palestinian boy runs next to destroyed buildings in Gaza City Aug. 28. The destruction came amid the latest fighting between Israel and Hamas, and with the present blockade in place, few see any chance for reconstruction.

'Wall of ignorance' fuels Holy Land fears

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OTTAWA - A Canadian bishop who travelled to Gaza with the annual Holy Land Co-ordination visit to the Middle East Jan. 11-12 says fear is the biggest obstacle to mutual recognition of human dignity in the region.

Young people hold candles as they participate in an ecumenical Taize prayer service St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Dec. 29, 2013.

Prayer for unity embraced across Canada

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The opportunity annually extended to Christians worldwide to be unified in prayer comes this year from Brazil, and it is being embraced in Canada from coast to coast.

Image of St. John Bosco with an iPad depicts his zeal for evangelization by using every means of communication available.

Salesians carry on 200-year legacy of St. John Bosco

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TORONTO - In a west end Toronto neighbourhood, the 200-year legacy of St. John Bosco lives on.

Margaret O'Gara

O’Gara ecumenical essays published

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TORONTO - One of Canada’s greatest theologians is still publishing more than two years after she died.

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