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Ecology comes first, ‘no ifs, ands or buts’

Ecology comes first, ‘no ifs, ands or buts’

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Twenty religious congregations have joined together to lobby Ottawa politicians on climate change and social justice. 

A Brock University study halted by the pandemic is back on and is surveying Catholic school students and families to see how pandemic restrictions have impacted bullying behaviour.

Catholic schools taking part in bullying study

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A Brock University research team is renewing its five-year school bullying investigation launched in 2017 that was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

An Orthodox church is seen in front an oil refinery that caught fire following a missile attack near the port city of Odesa, Ukraine, April 3, 2022. The Ukrainian government said Dec. 1 it would sanction members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate.

Ukrainian government says it will investigate Orthodox linked to Moscow

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The Ukrainian government said it would sanction members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate.

Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan, leaves after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris in this Feb. 28, 2020, file photo. Bibi has appealed for the protection of victims of blasphemy laws in her home country. She also said her family is struggling in Canada, because the government only supported them for one year.

Asia Bibi advocates for Pakistanis accused of blasphemy

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Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman who escaped death for alleged blasphemy and who now lives in Canada, has appealed for the protection of victims of blasphemy laws in her home country.

A miner works at an artisanal gold mine near Kamituga, Congo, Aug. 1, 2018.

Canadians can make difference in Congo

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With so much of the mineral wealth needed for the world’s green transition, the future is in Congo’s hands. 

A number of bronze plaques were stolen from a columbarium at St. Peter’s Cemetery in London, Ont.

Charges laid in London cemetery burglary

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London police have charged a 35-year-old man in the theft of 43 bronze vases and multiple plaques from St. Peter’s Cemetery in the southwestern Ontario city.

Two Quebec bishops named in abuse lawsuit

Two Quebec bishops named in abuse lawsuit

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Two Quebec bishops, one deceased and one living, have been named in a sexual abuse class action against the Archdiocese of Quebec.

Bishop Placide Lubamba Ndjibu of Kasongo

Congolese bishop urges government to take control in turbulent east

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A Catholic bishop in Congo warned of a loss of government control over parts of the country, ahead of a projected visit by Pope Francis.

A woman covers her nose while walking past a burning road block as anger mounted over fuel shortages that have intensified as a result of gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, this past summer.

Jesuits offer Trudeau their Haiti expertise

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As Canada prepares to take the lead among the Core Group trying to solve Haiti’s anarchic and violent crisis, Canada’s top Jesuit is offering Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a precious resource — 55 Haitian Jesuits, including 35 currently in the troubled Caribbean nation. 

St. Teresa’s Church in the Mundy Pond area of St. John’s, Nfld.

St. John’s rural properties next up on auction block

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With the sale of church properties in the greater St. John’s area almost complete, the Newfoundland archdiocese is now eyeing the sale of some of its rural properties to compensate abuse survivors from the Mount Cashel Orphanage.

A woman is pictured in the nearly empty Church of the Immaculate Conception in London July 4, 2020.

Christians now minority in U.K. presenting new opportunities for evanglization

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An English bishop said Catholics must work harder to evangelize the U.K. after the latest official census showed that Christians were a minority for the first time since records began.

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