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Fr. Peter Ciallella and volunteers assembled 220 care packages for migrant workers, who have been hit hard by COVID-19 in southwestern Ontario.

Church reaching out to migrant workers

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After the death of a second migrant worker of COVID-19 and at least 240 positive tests on just five farms, Deacon Tony Hogervorst is praying for thousands of seasonal workers on 176 farms across southwestern Ontario.

Sacred Heart First Peoples Church serves the Indigenous community in Edmonton.

Parish built on foundation of healing

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OTTAWA -- Trust and respect. It is easy to say, but hasn’t always been easy to follow during the long history of the Catholic Church and Canada’s Indigenous communities.

Cardinal Thomas Collins poses with the graduating class from St. Augustine’s Seminary in March. Eight men will be ordained in Toronto June 27.

Canadian dioceses charting course for ordinations

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The easing of COVID-19 restrictions and gradual re-opening of churches across Canada has allowed bishops to reschedule priest and deacon ordinations that were postponed in May.

Audrey Johnson

Praying for the end of racism

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Audrey Johnson has seen systemic racism. She’s felt it. And every Sunday morning at 7 a.m. sharp she and a small circle of black friends meet at church and kneel down and pray for it to end.

Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, is pictured in a 2019 file photo. The increased screen time and isolation because of quarantine measures or restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic have put vulnerable minors at greater risk of grooming and abuse online, Father Zollner said.

Lockdown has increased risk of abuse of minors, says expert

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VATICAN CITY -- The increased screen time and isolation due to quarantine measures or restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic have put vulnerable minors at greater risk of grooming and abuse online, a Jesuit safeguarding expert said.

A bulletin over a ShareLife poster notifies parishioners of the cancellation of Masses.

Dioceses expect financial lift as church doors open

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With churches across Ontario getting the go-ahead to open their doors, and most set to resume Sunday Masses June 21, it should alleviate some of the financial burden for dioceses still awaiting government relief through the Canada Wage Subsidy program.

This file photo shows the former Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Istanbul. The Catholic bishops in Turkey pledged not to contest plans to turn the ancient cathedral that now serves as a museum into a Muslim place of worship.

Turkish bishops won't contest plan to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque

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OXFORD, England -- Catholic bishops in Turkey pledged not to contest plans to turn Istanbul's ancient Hagia Sophia cathedral that now serves as a museum into a Muslim place of worship.

Deacon Michael James Robinson

Indigenous feel racism’s sting in Canada

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Deacon Michael James Robinson has a lifetime of experience that tells him systemic racism is real and it’s embedded in Canadian history and culture.

Pews were roped off and tape placed on the floor to ensure physical distancing as the first public Mass in three months was held at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Toronto on June 17.

Cardinal welcomes back parishioners to Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral

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“So good to see you.”

And with those words, Cardinal Thomas Collins launched into the first Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica June 17 where he had a live congregation since the COVID-19 pandemic closed churches in the Toronto archdiocese and nationwide in mid-March.

The Irene Thomas Hospice in Delta, B.C., has been at the centre of an assisted suicide debate.

Court deals blow to Delta hospice

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VANCOUVER -- The Delta Hospice Society is considering appealing a B.C. Supreme Court decision blocking its members from voting to change its constitution in an effort to keep assisted suicide out of the facility.

Men kneel during a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, June 8 in an anti-racism rally following the May 25 death of American George Floyd.

Africans still seething after Floyd killing

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ACCRA, Ghana -- Weeks after the death of George Floyd, the killing of the unarmed African American is still being condemned by African governments and organizations, with some describing it as an unjust murder.

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