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D&P’s Share Lent seeks to foster change

D&P’s Share Lent seeks to foster change

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Each year during Lent the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace makes its major push for funding, tapping the one source that not only keeps the organization afloat but also the only source of funding that can validate its existence — ordinary Canadian Catholics.

On the day before Valentine’s Day Dolores and George Poblete, who will mark 60 years of marriage this year, celebrated their sacramental union with more than 200 other married couples at Toronto’s St. Andrew Kim parish.

Ceremony celebrates 8,000 years of marriage

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TORONTO - A marriage story that began 60 years ago in the Philippines added another chapter at a packed church in Toronto as George and Dolores Poblete joined 229 other couples in a Valentine’s Day celebration of life-long love.

Religious Freedom office receives temporary extension

Religious Freedom office receives temporary extension

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OTTAWA - Religious Freedom Ambassador Andrew Bennett has received a temporary extension of his contract with Global Affairs Canada—at least until March 31.

NBA All Star weekend bring the stars to Toronto schools

NBA All Star weekend bring the stars to Toronto schools

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TORONTO - Toronto schools got to join in on the NBA All-Star excitement through the National Basketball Association's FIT program to promote fitness and healthy living among youth.

Br. Guy Consolmagno delivers the Faith and Reason Lecture at the Newman Centre in Toronto Feb. 8.

Laudato Si’ a call to culture change

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TORONTO - Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ may focus on climate change, but the essence of the Pope’s environmental encyclical is really a call for cultural change, said the director of the Vatican Observatory.

Maude Carrier

Aid workers remembered as people who touched lives

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MONTREAL - Six Canadian aid workers killed in a terrorist attack in Burkina Faso last month were remembered at their respective funerals on Feb. 6 as humanitarians who touched lives and left people on two continents in mourning.

National Campus Life Network executive director Anastasia Pearse spreads the pro-life message on campus.

Campus pro-lifers take their fight to courts

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TORONTO - Five pro-life student groups are before the courts fighting to have their voice heard on campus.

Syrian refugees walk at Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria. Catholic Crosscultural Services has teamed with the federal government to try and link Syrian refugees with family and sponsors in Canada.

Catholic Crosscultural Services teams with federal government to link Syrians

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TORONTO - The federal government is seeking to pair displaced Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war in their homeland with their families already in Canada or with groups ready to sponsor them.

Iraqi soldiers evacuate families from Ramadi, Iraq, Feb. 3, after the city was recently recaptured by Iraqi forces. A European bishops’ commission has welcomed a move by the European Parliament to classify atrocities and religious cleansing by the Islamic State as genocide. Canada has been asked to follow suit but has not done so to date.

Canada asked to recognize genocide of Christians

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OTTAWA - The Canadian government should join the European Union in labelling the persecution of Christians by Islamic State jihadists a genocide, said Aid to the Church in Need.

MP Murray Rankin has tabled a motion calling for the establishment of a right to palliative care along with funding to make it universally accessible.

NDP seeks right to palliative care

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OTTAWA - If legalized assisted suicide is one wing of the bird the other wing is palliative care, said MP Murray Rankin as he tabled a motion to make access to palliative care a right for all Canadians.

Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law founding director Margaret Somerville at the committee on physician-assisted dying.

Up to 12,000 Canadians could be killed annually

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OTTAWA - Bioethicist Margaret Somerville warned up to 12,000 people could be euthanized annually in Canada if a new law does not ensure euthanasia is exceptional, rare and used only as a last resort.

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