A man carrying goods walks along a street with houses that were destroyed by an earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, in this April 30 photo.

Canada's bishops, D&P launch emergency campaign for Nepal

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OTTAWA - Canada's Catholic bishops and the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P) have launched a joint emergency campaign to help earthquake victims in Nepal.

Students in Catholic schools across Ontario will take part in a province-wide Mass, among other activities, to celebrate the first ever Ontario Catholic Student Youth Day on May 7.

Ontario marks Catholic Student Youth Day May 7

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TORONTO - The efforts of a few is bringing acknowledgement to all Catholic students as the province prepares to celebrate the first Ontario Catholic Student Youth Day on May 7.

Demonstrators rally outside St. Anne's Catholic Church in Detroit to protest the September 2014 disappearance of 43 students from a teachers college in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. The students from Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College were app arently arrested by local police who handed them over to a drug gang.

Mother of one of 43 “disappeared” Mexican students testifies on Hill

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OTTAWA - A Mexican group that includes the mother of one of 43 students who disappeared from a teacher-training college in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, is asking Canada to take Mexico off its list of safe countries.

Ethiopian immigrants from the Christian, Orthodox, Protestant and Muslim faiths all gathered April 28 in Toronto’s Dundas Square to appeal to Canadians and the international community to do more to protect Ethiopian migrants in Yemen and South Africa.

Toronto's Ethiopians rally against Islamic State brutality

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TORONTO - Close to 1,000 Ethiopian immigrants — a mix of Orthodox, Protestant and Muslim — gathered in the late afternoon and evening of April 28 in Dundas Square to mourn together the death of two Ethiopian migrant workers murdered April 19 in Libya by Islamic State militants.

We Need A Law campaign director Mike Schouten and media relations assistant Niki Pennings on the lawn of Queen’s Park, where the campaign arranged a display of 100,000 pink and blue flags to represent abortions performed in Canada each year.

Civil liberties association says withholding abortion stats an affront to democracy

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TORONTO - Ontario is violating basic principles of democracy and Canada’s international treaty obligations by keeping abortion statistics secret, according to the Ontario Civil Liberties Association.

After doing its “due diligence,” the London Diocese has turned down a donation that would help restore Windsor, Ont.’s Our Lady of the Assumption Church.

Latest bid to restore historic Windsor church falls through

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WINDSOR, Ont. - A $10-million bid to save Windsor’s historic Our Lady of Assumption Church has fallen through.

There will be 4,000 more day care spaces in Ontario over the next three years, according to a press release from Ontario’s Ministry of Education.

Ontario daycares receives a $120 million boost

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Good news for parents with young children in Ontario — the Ministry of Education plans to spend $120 million to increase day care spaces in the province.

Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins watches as Sister Andrea Dumont accepts Catholic Missions’ missionary award April 24 on behalf of all “unsung heroes” referring to all missionaries working in Canada.

Sr. Dumont accepts Catholic Missions award on behalf of all missionaries

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VAUGHAN, ONT. - Sr. Andrea Dumont, a missionary Sister of St. Joseph, was honoured this year with Catholic Missions In Canada's St. Joseph Award.

Mother Marie Elisabeth Turgeon was beatified April 26 in Rimouski, Quebec. A second miracle is still needed before she can be made a saint.

Quebec nun Mother Elisabeth Turgeon the latest Canadian to be beatified

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RIMOUSKI, QUE. - A  teacher from Quebec's Lower St. Lawrence region who believed that "schools were the vestibules to the Church" was beatified April 26 by Cardinal Angelo Amato, the papal legate who came from Rome to Rimouski to proclaim her Blessed.

Retired Vancouver archbishop Raymond Roussin died in Winnipeg April 24 at the age of 75.

Archbishop Raymond Roussin passes away at 75

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Archbishop Raymond Roussin’s life of dedication, faith, struggle and hope is over. The retired archbishop of Vancouver died in Winnipeg April 24. He was 75.

In a letter given to Our Lady of Grace parishioners in Aurora during the April 25-26 weekend, Fr. Joe Gorman said that he has decided to leave the priesthood.

Fr. Gorman chooses to leave the priesthood

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TORONTO - A popular parish priest who was asked to step aside for a “period of reflection” has declined the opportunity and has decided he will leave the priesthood.

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