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Destroyed vehicles are seen outside of the Splendid Hotel Jan. 18 in the aftermath of an an attack by extremists in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Six of the 29 people killed in the attack, including four members of one family, were volunteers from Quebec with connections to the Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

Aid workers remembered as people who touched lives

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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.

During a Jan. 31 Mass recognizing the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life, Sr. Zilda Carvalho says a prayer for the many youth she spoke to about religious life during the Year of Consecrated Life

Youth open to Year of Consecrated Life

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TORONTO - For Sr. Zilda Carvalho, the Year of Consecrated Life served not only as a call for celebration amongst her fellow religious but as a catalyst for conversations with youth about vocations and faith.

Nick and Rose Mammola, married 70 years, recently renewed their marriage vows at Precious Blood parish.

70 years married and counting

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TORONTO - In a society that sees marriage as counter-cultural, Pope John Paul II gave his apostolic blessing in 1993 to World Marriage Day, or Marriage Sunday, to encourage married couples to continue the family’s mission to be a “fundamental cell of that larger society, for the Church and for the new evangelization.”

A pair of activists are calling Winnipeg’s Gonzaga Middle School just another type of residential school.

Comparing Winnipeg school to residential schools ‘just odious’

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A Jesuit-inspired middle school in Winnipeg’s poorest, most violent neighbourhood has been met with accusations of cultural genocide and comparisons with the infamous residential schools that devastated native communities across Canada.

Cardinal Thomas Collins appeared before the joint Parliamentary Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying with Christian Medical and Dental Association of Canada executive director Laurence Worthen on behalf of the Coalition for HealthCARE and Conscience Feb. 3.

Cardinal Collins urges lawmakers to respect conscience rights

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OTTAWA - The upcoming federal law regarding physician-assisted death must respect the conscience rights of doctors and other health-care workers, Cardinal Thomas Collins told a Parliamentary committee.

Bishop Douglas Crosby

Suicide advocates carrying the debate

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Advocates in favour of wider access to assisted suicide have dominated parliamentary committee hearings that will help craft a new assisted-suicide law, with little opposition so far from religious voices.

Notre Dame Sister Gilberte Bussiere, 76, was kidnapped in April 2014 in northern Cameroon, where she had been a missionary since 1979. She was released after two months and now lives in Montreal.

Canadian nun tells of spiritual experience while captive in Cameroon

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MONTREAL - Notre Dame Sister Gilberte Bussiere, 76, was kidnapped in the middle of the night in April 2014, in Tchere, a small hamlet in northern Cameroon.

Archbishop Prendergast

Alexandria-Cornwall may join Ottawa archdiocese

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OTTAWA - A decision on the future of the Alexandria-Cornwall diocese and whether it will remain a separate entity or become part of the Ottawa archdiocese is expected to be resolved by June or July 2017, says Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast.

Volunteers in 30 communities nationwide, including York Region, will be counting the homeless in their areas for a national study.

Homeless count aims to find solutions to national problem

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York Region sent volunteers to canvass the streets and shelters to tally the homeless population as part of a federally funded initiative aimed at tackling homelessness nationwide.

Jesuit Father John McCarthy, living off the land during his scientific pursuits.

Jesuit makes a name for himself studying lichen

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For gymnasts it might be a twisting tumble, for astrologers a star, for politicians a sandwich. But for Jesuit ecologist Fr. John McCarthy that ultimate accolade — confirmation of a lifetime of scientific research — is to have a lichen named after him.

University of Ottawa professor Bernard Pelletier

Restricting physician-assisted death to adults may not pass court challenge, says expert

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OTTAWA - Physician-assisted death legislation could include competent children under the age of 18, a legal expert told a Parliamentary committee Jan. 26.

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