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OTTAWA - A joint fundraising campaign by Canada’s Catholic bishops and their overseas development agency to bring emergency relief to Syrian refugees will close Sept. 14 with a day of fasting and prayer.

ANTIGONISH, N.S. - A further 62 Catholic churches in Antigonish, N.S., are under review as the diocese tries to get its buildings in line with the number of people attending Mass and the number of priests available to preside.

OTTAWA - Representatives of four groups that advocate for disabled Canadians have written Canada’s justice minister urging him to fight against any attempts to decriminalize euthanasia.

OTTAWA - A recent Canadian Medical Association survey on physician-assisted suicide has raised concerns, despite its finding that most doctors would not take part in ending a life if they were legally able.

BARRY’S BAY, ONT. - Soon Catholics will no longer see Vatican II as a break, but will interpret the Council’s teachings in light of the Church’s 2,000 years, says Pembroke Bishop Michael Mulhall.

Ontario Vincentians have sent more than their sympathy to citizens of Lac Mégantic, Que.

OTTAWA - REAL Women of Canada does not support persecution of homosexuals, despite what has been written in a media firestorm responding to the organization's Aug. 7 news release accusing Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird of abuse of office for funding homosexual activism overseas.

MONTREAL - As an emotional debate rages in Quebec over Bill 52 and the legalization of euthanasia, a Montreal church is slowly but surely being turned into a palliative care centre.

TORONTO - International Christian Voice Canada will be celebrating Pakistan's National Minorities Day in Brampton, Ont., this Sunday.

TORONTO - In Toronto and around the world people commemorated the 68th anniversary of the first nuclear weapons ever used against a civilian population — the atom bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945.