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Nearly five per cent of Canadian deaths is via medical assistance, Health Canada’s new report on MAiD shows.

MAiD toll almost five per cent of deaths

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Health Canada’s new annual report about medical assistance in dying (MAiD) revealed that euthanasia now accounts for nearly five per cent — 15,343 people — of the nation’s total fatalities (326,571) in 2023. 

Screenshot of Cardinal Leo speaking during his homily at the Archdiocese of Toronto’s Solemn Opening Mass of the Jubilee Year.

Cardinal Leo launches a Jubilee year of renewal

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Toronto Catholics welcomed Cardinal Francis Leo back to Toronto following his journey to Rome earlier this month where he was elevated to the College of Cardinals.

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, sprinkles worshippers with water during the blessing of water on the Dnipro River after he celebrated a Divine Liturgy Jan. 6, 2024, at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv.

Pope Francis accepts invitation to Ukraine, major archbishop says, but nothing is 'guaranteed'

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Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych set Ukrainian hopes high for the Jubilee Year by saying that Pope Francis accepted an invitation to visit Ukraine in 2025.

Cardinal Louis Sako, the Baghdad-based patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, greets U.S. Cardinal J. Francis Stafford during a consistory in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this June 28, 2018, file photo.

Christians in Iraq 'tense' after Syria regime change, patriarch says

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After Pope Francis prayed on Christmas Day for Syrian Christians facing uncertainty amid the country's regime change, the leader of the Catholic Church in neighboring Iraq said the toppling of the regime left Christians in the region feeling "tense."

People in Damascus, Syria, attend a protest against the burning of a Christmas tree in the country's Hama governate, Dec. 24, 2024.

Christians protest in Syria after Christmas tree burned

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A Christmas tree was reportedly set ablaze in a Christian-majority town in Syria, prompting protests in the war-torn nation just two weeks after the ouster of former President Bashar Assad and his regime.

Youth asked to 'Rise Up' as Christ's disciples

Youth asked to 'Rise Up' as Christ's disciples

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The 600 young adults attending Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO)’s 2024 Rise Up conference in Calgary from Dec. 29 to Jan. 1 will be implored to “take courage” and navigate the secularized world as bold disciples of Jesus Christ.

Papal point man for charity, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity is pictured with children in Fastiv, Ukraine, Dec. 23, 2024, after he opened a soup kitchen in Fastiv, 48 miles west of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and the children performed a Nativity play for him.

Despite fear in Ukraine, keep going, pope tells Cardinal Krajewski

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The papal point man for charity, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, opened a soup kitchen in Fastiv, in Ukraine's Kyiv region, Dec. 23 and was heading east to Kharkiv to spend Christmas "in the city where Russian bombs fell first and the war started" on Feb. 24, 2022.

People lay candles and tributes Dec. 21, 2024, at the site where a car drove into a crowd at a Magdeburg Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. Germans mourned the death of at least five people, including a 9-year-old, who were killed, and hundreds others who were injured after a Saudi doctor intentionally drove into the busy Christmas market the previous day.

Pope Francis, bishops, hundreds of faithful pray for victims of shocking Christmas market attack

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Several hundred people gathered at Magdeburg Cathedral in the evening of Dec. 21 for an ecumenical prayer service to remember the victims of the Dec. 20 Christmas market attack in the central German city, which killed five, including a 9-year-old child, and injured over 40 people, leaving some in critical condition.

Artist Steven Knight looks at a selection of the stations of the cross icon set that he has been working to create.

Easter icon gets Christmas makeover

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While the Church is marking Advent and preparing for Christmas, artist Steven Knight is finding himself immersed in work more evocative of Holy Week and Easter, and struggling with the realization that one of his works needed to be completely remade.

Paul Brown (left), society chair of Providence Health Care, and Peter Bull (right), vice-chair of Providence’s board, unveil the new cornerstone for Vancouver’s St. Pau’s Hospital Dec. 6 with Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller.

Cornerstone blessed for new St. Paul’s Hospital

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The enduring legacy of the Sisters of Providence, who founded the original St. Paul’s Hospital in 1894, was front and centre Dec. 6 as Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller blessed the cornerstone for the new St. Paul’s Hospital being built in False Creek Flats.

People walk at the site of a Russian missile strike near St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec. 20, 2024, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine. According to the church's rector, Father Pavlo Vyshkovsky, cited by the Religious Information Service of Ukraine, the windows in the church's towers were blown out and the stained glass windows were shattered.

Kyiv's St. Nicholas Catholic church suffers damage during Russian morning attack

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During a Dec. 20 Russian missile strike on Kyiv, Catholic St. Nicholas church, a significant architectural monument of the Ukrainian capital, suffered damage.

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