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The Glengarry Fencibles Trust hopes to raise $1 million by the end of March to qualify for matching funds from Parks Canada to restore the house of Ontario's first bishop, Bishop Alexander Macdonnell.

Trust aims for $1 million to restore home of Ontario’s first bishop

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OTTAWA – After saving the house of Ontario’s first bishop from the wrecking ball, a small private trust is now racing against the clock to raise funds to restore the heritage building and resurrect the memory of Bishop Alexander Macdonell.

Our Canada, My Story opened at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg March 1.

For Canada's 150th, human rights museum selects seven stories aim to inspire

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WINNIPEG – There are countless stories Canadians can and have shared over the nation’s history, but the Canadian Museum of Human Rights has zeroed in on seven unique, contemporary stories of people who overcame human rights challenges for its exhibit to mark Canada’s sesquicentennial.

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.

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