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With seven million Syrian children forced into poverty, almost three million out of school and two million living in cities under siege, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF estimates 80 per cent of Syria’s children have suffered harm in the five-year-old war.
March for Life opens doors to wide pro-life spectrum
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Campaign Life Coalition has paved the way for every organization fighting for the unborn to take part in this year’s National March for Life May 12.
Native suicide crisis part of the heartache of ministering in First Nations’ communities
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterLiving alongside Canada's First Nations people is a ministry of highs and heartaches for Archbishop Murray Chatlain.
And the heartache comes to the forefront at times like now, highlighted by a suicide crisis that has struck the First Nations’ community of Cross Lake, Man.
Halifax’s Saint Mary’s University offering language course for those welcoming Syrian refugees
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterRetired lawyer Bob Doherty has no illusions about becoming fluent in Arabic but he’s taking a language course at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax in order to ease the transition for the Syrian refugee family his parish will soon welcome.
Faith communities must be moral dimension in fighting climate change
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Faith communities must stay hopeful and engaged to ensure governments live up to climate change commitments, says the leader of the United Church of Canada’s delegation to COP21.
Canadian aid could fund abortions
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Pro-life groups charge that the federal government intends to resume funding for overseas abortions as part of its international child and maternal health program.
Alliance issues Vulnerable Persons' Standard to advise government on physician-assisted death
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - A broad alliance of Catholic and other organizations opposed to assisted suicide is urging that upcoming legislation provide explicit protections for disabled and other vulnerable people including a review by a judge or independent authority prior to the killing of any patient.
Doctors perform English Canada’s first assisted suicide
By Agnieszka Krawczynski, Canadian Catholic NewsVANCOUVER - Vancouver physicians have carried out Canada’s first known case of assisted suicide outside of Quebec.
‘Unprecedented opportunity’ for Muslims, Catholics to dialogue
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - There can be no question that Muslim-Catholic dialogue matters. More than one billion Catholics and over two billion Muslims combine to cover the globe, penetrate every culture and express their ideas about the world, human life and God in hundreds of languages.
Impact of Shahbaz Bhatti assassination still felt in Canada
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - It’s been five years since the assassination of Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, but his religious freedom legacy lives on in Canada and around the world.
Fr. Lacroix was spiritual advisor to former PM Trudeau
By Alan Hustak, Catholic Register SpecialMONTREAL - The priest who gave last rites to Pierre Elliott Trudeau and presided at the funeral of his son Michel has died at age 100.