NEWS
Brazilian church provides aid to the Yanomami, call for justice upon "genocide"
By Eduardo Campos Lima, OSV NewsThe severe health care and hunger crisis affecting the Yanomami indigenous people in Roraima state prompted the Brazilian church to coordinate help and to work side by side with government agencies and indigenous organizations to provide food and medical attention to the sick.
Whistleblower claims 38-week-old unborn baby aborted in Montreal
By Anna Farrow, Catholic Register SpecialQuebec pro-lifers are reacting with prayer and political pressure following a whistleblower’s report of a 38-week-old unborn baby being aborted last week at Montreal’s Sacré-Cœur Hospital.
Over 2,800 dead as 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocks Turkey, Syria
By Junno Arocho Esteves, OSV NewsA powerful earthquake struck Turkey and Syria in the early morning hours of Feb. 6, killing hundreds and leaving thousands more wounded.
Famed wooden Church has uncertain future
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterBelieved to be the largest wooden church in North America, the historic Église Sainte-Marie in Church Point, N.S., will be sold or demolished in the upcoming weeks.
Canadian groups unite to aid Ukrainian refugees
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterAs war rages in Ukraine, Canadian settlement assistance groups have rallied their forces to help 132,000 Ukrainian nationals fleeing the violence.
Pistons assistant coach ready for leap of faith
By Daniel Meloy, OSV NewsFr. John McKenzie first noticed Andrew Jones III in the halls of the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, Mich., where Jones was holding his son, Andrew IV.
New hope for MAiD opponents
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterOpponents of MAiD have a golden “window of opportunity” to change public opinion, but the trade-off is they can’t slam the door shut on those with differing views, warns veteran physician Dr. Peggy Gibson.
Yanomami tragedy called ‘genocide’
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAt least 570 children dead, images of emaciated women desperately trying to feed babies who seem to be swimming in and out of consciousness, adults with skin stretched over shoulders and rib cages — these revelations strewn across Brazilian media have missionaries, Brazil’s bishops and even newly installed Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva using the word “genocide.”
MAiD for mentally ill delayed by Parliament
By Catholic Register StaffThe expansion of assisted suicide in Canada to those suffering solely from mental illness is being delayed by a year.
'The Babylon Bee' takes aim at Canada's MAiD madness
By Nicholas Elbers, Canadian Catholic NewsThe popular humour-satire site The Babylon Bee has been taking jabs at the Trudeau government’s promotion of “Medical Assistance in Dying” and at the moral absurdity of euthanasia itself.
Canadians rank low in Mass attendance
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterIn Nigeria, 94 per cent of Catholics say they go to Mass at least once a week. In Canada, 14 per cent. In Quebec, two per cent.