Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
Deborah Waters Gyapong has been a journalist and novelist for more than 20 years. She has worked in print, radio and television, including 12 years as a producer for CBC TV's news and current affairs programming. She currently covers religion and politics primarily for Catholic and Evangelical newspapers.
End poverty to improve health, says CMA
OTTAWA - Canada must eliminate poverty in order to become a healthy nation, according to the Canadian Medical Association (CMA).
Gibbons arrested, again, outside abortion clinic
Linda Gibbons, who has spent 10 of the past 20 years in prison for peacefully protesting outside abortion facilities, is back in prison.
Quebec euthanasia bill widely condemned
OTTAWA - A Quebec government bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in the province is being widely condemned and will be reviewed by the federal justice minister who said Canadian laws exist to protect all Canadians.
OTTAWA - Western support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has created a looming catastrophe, warned a Jesuit priest invited to speak on Parliament Hill.
OTTAWA - The president of Canada’s Catholic bishops' conference has written Prime Minister Stephen Harper, urging him not to forget the poor at the June 17-18 G-8 meeting in Northern Ireland.
OTTAWA - An aggressive secular orthodoxy has created a cartoon version of the Christian faith, said the keynote speaker at the 47th National Prayer Breakfast here June 4.
OTTAWA - John Corston recalls growing up in a racist community that looked down on aboriginals like him. He remembers reading history books that painted a negative picture of native Canadians.
Gendercide horror driven home
OTTAWA - Participants in this year’s National March for Life May 9 came away equipped with a new awareness of the horrors of female gendercide.
MP Warawa gets his say in House of Commons
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Mark Warawa defied Tory party efforts to muzzle him and spoke on the gendercide of baby girls May 9 in the House of Commons.
OTTAWA - One of the most powerful forms of social justice is adoption because it unleashes purpose, love and mercy, says Ryan Bomberger, co-founder of the Radiance Foundation.