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CNEWA Canada's national director Carl Hétu says the organization has developed an identity around helping Christians caught in the chaos of the Middle East's recent conflicts.

CNEWA Canada finds success in unique mission

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From zero to $4.3 million annually in just 12 years is part of the remarkable success story that is CNEWA Canada.

Cardus hopes that its technology-driven and donor-focused Give 150 initiative will cultivate a culture of continuous charitable giving from younger Canadians.

Cardus' Give 150 campaign tries to make charity a habit

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Charity can be habit-forming — at least that’s the hope of the Christian think tank Cardus.

Society’s attempts to tackle addiction have failed because it is not approached as a social issue.

Spiritual crisis is at the heart of addiction

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In the United States, nearly four million people use heroin — a five-fold increase from a decade ago, according to new research from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Bishop Wayne Kirkpatrick, as part of the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition, gathered in front of Queen's Park April 5 to pray for each of the 107 MPPs in hope of a budget that will help the poor.

Interfaith coalition prays for each MPP to meet poverty challenge in Ontario's budget

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With the Ontario budget expected to come down soon, the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC) observed its tradition of praying for each of the 107 MPPs by name in the hope of a budget that will deal justly with the poor of the province.

Douglas Farrow, a professor of Christian Thought at McGill University, addresses the annual COLF seminar.

Gender ideologies threaten Christian view, says theologian

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GATINEAU, Que. – Ideologies that have given rise to gender theory and transgenderism represent “head-on” attacks on the Christian world view, warned a prominent Catholic theologian.

NDP health critic France Gelinas said MPPs are feeling the pressure on Bill-84, particularly from those who would protect doctors’ conscience rights.

Ontario's legislators under 'tremendous pressure’ to amend Bill-84

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With more than 22,000 emails and letters in their in-boxes, Ontario legislators have rarely been under as much pressure to amend a bill as they have been over conscience rights for doctors in Bill-84.

Canada's former Ambassador of Religious Freedom, Andrew Bennett, urges the Holy See to use caution when engaging with China.

Holy See urged to use caution in China dealings

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OTTAWA – Canada and the Holy See should hold China’s “feet to the fire” on human rights and be cautious about engaging with the Chinese government, warned Canada’s former Ambassador of Religious Freedom.

In this 1940 photo, a group of female students and a nun pose in a classroom at Cross Lake Indian Residential School in Manitoba. Blair Stonechild, a professor of indigenous studies at First Nations University of Canada, says the residential school periods in Canada was “spiritual abuse” and has deep roots.

‘Spiritual abuse’ from residential schools had deep roots for First Nations

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Blair Stonechild knows first-hand the devastating effects residential schools had on First Nations spirituality.

President of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Dr. David Rouselle, told told the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs it was sticking by its policy requiring doctors to provide an “effective referral” whenever a patient asks for assisted suicide.

Doctors’ college sticking to referral policy for assisted suicide

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The people who grant and deny medical licenses in Ontario faced off against the two largest provincial organizations representing doctors on March 30 at Queen’s Park and told the doctors they have to sacrifice their conscience rights to serve patients.

One of two houses owned by Sacred Heart College which make up the small post-secondary school's current campus.

Sacred Heart College’s new degree status helps heal sting of losing property bid

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Those invested in Peterborough's Sacred Heart College are riding high after an emotionally turbulent end to the month of March.

A brother and sister transport their salvaged belongings from their destroyed house Jan. 2 in Aleppo, Syria.

Syrians who remain need help to rebuild their country

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OTTAWA – While much of the world’s attention is on Syrian refugees, there is also a great need to help rebuild the lives of those who chose to remain in the war-ravaged country, says a Syrian refugee who manages centres funded by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace.

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