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Canada's Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau announced that Canada is giving $20 million in funding to several international agencies in support of “sexual and reproductive health and rights.”

Pro-lifers lash out at Ottawa's pledge to ‘export’ abortions

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OTTAWA –Pro-life groups are pushing back on social media against Canada’s commitment to fund abortion overseas and make it a “pillar” of international development policy.

The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace’s “Solidarity Quilt” was on display at the 50th anniversary Mass in Toronto March 4.

D&P’s fifty years of solidarity celebrated

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Toronto Development and Peace members celebrated a half-century of solidarity at a Mass in St. Michael’s Cathedral with Cardinal Thomas Collins March 4.

Cristina Alarcon, pictured in a Feb. 17 photo, is celebrating after 17 years of championing the freedoms of British Columbia pharmacists. The code of ethics of the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia was finally updated, so Alarcon said she and her peers are finally free to act according to their consciences.

British Columbia pharmacist celebrates updated code of ethics

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WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia – After 17 years of championing the freedoms of British Columbia pharmacists, Cristina Alarcon is celebrating a victory.

Pope Francis exchanges a gift with a bishop from Chile during the Chilean bishops’ ad limina visit to the Vatican Feb. 20. At left is Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati Andrello of Santiago, Chile.

Canadian bishops have a date with Pope Francis

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Atlantic Canada bishops will lead off two months of visits to Rome which will see all of Canada’s active bishops participate in “ad limina” meetings with a Pope for the first time since 2006.

Andre Lachance of Quebec City filed a lawsuit Feb. 17 claiming that Pius X Secular Institute and its official, including now Quebec Cardinal Gerald Lacroix, of ignored abuse that occurred on the institute grounds in the 1970s and 1980s.

Quebec man accuses Pius X Secular Institute, Cardinal Lacroix of ignoring sex abuse

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QUEBEC CITY – A $367,000 (US$274,000) lawsuit filed in Quebec Superior Court charged the Pius X Secular Institute and its officials of ignoring abuse that occurred on the institute grounds in Quebec City in the 1970s and 1980s.

Syrian women and children arrive at a refugee camp in 2016 in Royashed, Jordan. Development and Peace's 50th Lent campaign, which launches March 1, will be in the name of women.

Women are at the heart of D&P's Lent campaign

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The next $8 million Development and Peace raises will be in the name of women.

The Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the Christian Legal fellowship have been granted leave to file a joint-intervention in the lawsuit brought by five Ontario doctors.

More groups are joining the fight for conscience rights

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OTTAWA – Groups defending conscience rights and religious freedom will be allowed to participate in a court case challenging the Ontario physicians’ college.

Bishop William McGrattan, who succeeded Bishop Fred Henry as the head of Calgary's diocese, at a welcome dinner Feb. 27.

Calgary's new bishop William McGrattan meets his new flock

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Bishop William McGrattan won’t pretend to be as “very bold” as his predecessor, but hopes to be just as steadfast as Bishop Fred Henry as he assumes leadership of Calgary’s diocese.

John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms said freedom of expression is like a muscle that must be exercised to grow stronger.

The fight never ends for free speech, say panelists at Manning conference

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OTTAWA – Freedom of expression on university campuses must be fought for despite threats said a Censorship on Campus panel Feb. 25 at the Manning Centre Conference.

Supreme Court of Canada granted Trinity Western University leave to appeal the Ontario Court of Appeal’s ruling maintained the Law Society of Upper Canada’s decision to refuse accreditation to graduates of the school’s proposed law school.

Supreme Court to hear Trinity Western University's religious freedom case

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OTTAWA – Trinity Western University will have an opportunity to defend its religious freedom and pro-traditional marriage community covenant before the Supreme Court of Canada.

The top three preferred candidates in the Conservative leadership as ranked by pro-life group Right Now are former M.P. Pierre Lemieux, left, M.P. Andrew Sheer, centre, and M.P. Brad Trost.

Pro-life group Right Now ranks Conservative hopefuls

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OTTAWA – A new pro-life group believes Conservative leadership candidates must have more than proper pro-life credentials. Candidates must also have the ability to form a government.

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