Youth Speak News
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Breaking down Christian barriers
By Bianca Reátegui, Youth Speak NewsMISSISSAUGA, ONT. - Young ecumenist Anupama Ranawana has strengthened her faith through learning about other Christian denominations.
Fighting for faith
By Danielle Sequeira, Youth Speak NewsI jogged on the spot and glanced nervously around waiting to be called up to fight. It was my first Brazilian jiu jitsu tournament, and I was terrified. I had started training in this grappling martial art less than a year earlier. I was full of fear, doubt and worry, scared of letting my team down and disappointing my family.
Happiness: a misguided search
By Clare Bekkers, Youth Speak NewsANTIGONISH, N.S. - Happiness is different than joy or pleasure, said Peter Koritansky, calling it a misunderstood emotion.
Struggles of a student evangelist
By Clare Bekkers, Youth Speak NewsHow educating others on Catholicism can refresh one’s faith
Suicide threatens teens
By Danielle Sequeira, Youth Speak NewsAmanda is recovering after battling depression for three years. The Grade 12 student, 18, is thankful for friends who helped stop her from taking her own life.
Catholics reclaim sacred Scripture
By Chanelle Robinson, Youth Speak NewsAs a young girl, I would sometimes accompany my grandmother to church on Sunday, which always meant attending Sunday school. I always looked forward to Sunday school because the lessons were centred on Bible stories and candies were awarded for memorizing Bible verses. In my youth, believing was joyful and it always included the Bible.
Catholic matchmaking
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Matthew Sanders is calling the young and the Catholic to the Newman Centre for the re-launch of Catholic Singles Socials.
First encounter with the ‘Final Embrace’
By Augustine Ng, Youth Speak NewsOn Oct. 20, I visited the World Press Photo exhibit at Brookfield Place in Toronto. The exhibition had prize-winning photographs assembled by World Press Photo, the organizers of “the world’s largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest.” As an amateur photographer, I went looking for inspiration. I received so much more than that.
Coming home to Catholicism
By Bianca Reátegui, Youth Speak NewsI wasn’t in the habit of regularly going to church until five years ago. I was bored by the Mass as a child and found very little reason to attend if I could help it. As a pre-teen, I openly resisted Christianity. I rarely went to church in those years of adolescent angst. Even when my parents dragged me to church, I felt uhappy to be there.
Students split on religious studies
By Bianca Reátegui, Youth Speak NewsBRAMPTON, ONT. - The law might give some students a pass from religious studies in Catholic high schools, but that doesn’t mean non-Catholic students are opting out of religion class.