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November 10, 2017
Radio Maria Canada has launched a new show for young people that is expected to live up to its name — Give Me a Voice.
OTTAWA – After an “avalanche” of letters and testimony from faith leaders, the Justice Committee has amended Bill C-51 to keep protections for religious leaders and worship services.
Plenty of my peers have told me they don’t understand why Catholics can’t just get with the times.
November 12, 2017
VATICAN CITY – Christians and Muslims believe that freedom of conscience and religion are the most important human rights and, "therefore, our collective duty demands that we respect, preserve and promote such rights," said members of the Catholic-Muslim Forum.
November 13, 2017
VATICAN – On Sunday Pope Francis encouraged people not to wait to reflect on their lives, but to ask themselves: If this was my last day on earth, am I prepared? Am I cooperating with God’s grace?
Opening up the family vault for public scrutiny is never easy, even when your grandmother is considered a saint by many people.
OTTAWA – A significant relic of St. Francis Xavier is coming to Canada for a month-long, 14-city pilgrimage beginning with Catholic Christian Outreach’s (CCO) Rise Up conference in Ottawa Dec. 28-Jan. 1.
When a state of emergency was declared in April 2016 by the Attawapiskat First Nations in northern Ontario after a drastic increase in suicide attempts, a couple of teachers a thousand kilometres away felt a call to action.
A Christian couple in Edmonton has filed a lawsuit against Alberta Child and Family Services claiming the agency denied their application to adopt due to their religious beliefs about marriage and sexuality.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Church leaders who are attached to money and try to climb the ladder of success wound the church and destroy people's hope, Pope Francis said.
A stained glass image of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, Canada’s first female saint, now adorns the Saint-Paul and Saint-Pierre Church in Hiers-Brouage, France.
VATICAN – Pope Francis sent messages of condolence to people in Iran and Iraq after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake killed more than 400 people, mostly in Iran.
OTTAWA – Obianuju Ekeocha, Catholic founder of Culture of Life Africa, wants Canadians to stop funding feminist ideological colonization she says will devastate African societies.
Visiting a cousin, Joe, who lives far away, my family and I received a tour of his most unusual home.
It was always Rani Rivera’s dream to become a published poet, much like her mother Patria. What she didn’t know was that her dream would come true after her own death.
November 14, 2017
OTTAWA – The pro-life movement in North America is targeting young people on university campuses because so is the abortion industry say campus pro-life activists.
MANILA, Philippines – Catholic Church leaders in the Philippines are calling on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take back several shipping containers of toxic waste that arrived in the country from Canada in 2013, reported ucanews.com.
EDMONTON, Alberta – It has been 20 years since Susie Laliberte Small's sister, Marie, disappeared.
MANCHESTER, England – The terms "mother" and "father" will be banned from Catholic schools' admissions forms in England and Wales following a complaint the terms discriminated against gay and stepparents.
TECUMSEH, Ont. – A cheer went up here in the early morning of Nov. 14 as a cupola and spire, after sitting 10 years on the front lawn of Ste. Anne Church, was finally reattached to the church’s new re-cladded tower.