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From left, Aklilu Wendaferew, executive director of Good Shepherd Ministries, Archbishop Francis Leo and The Good Shepherd’s Br. David Lynch announce a $520,000 commitment to fight food insecurity.

ShareLife commits $520,000 to fight hunger

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Disquieting headlines about the state of household food security have unrelentingly flooded the Canadian news media ecosystem in recent months. Enter ShareLife.

Montreal’s Red Mass is celebrated Sept. 7, the first organized by the Société Saint-Yves de Montréal.

Red Mass resurrected

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A group of 60 jurists, notaries and law students gathered at the Sacred Heart Chapel in Montreal’s historic Notre-Dame Basilica on Sept. 7 to attend the first Red Mass organized by the newly formed Société Saint-Yves de Montréal.

Students renewed for school year

Students renewed for school year

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Youth between the ages of 14 and 30 looking to feel energized before the start of the school season met in praise and worship at the Throneway Renewal conference.

A woman reacts during a protest against violence in Abuja, Nigeria, Aug. 15, 2020. In an endless cycle of violence against Christians in Nigeria, seminarian Na'Aman Danlami Stephen of the Diocese of Kafanchan burned to death Sept. 7, 2023, when Fulani herdsmen attacked the rector at his parish church, St. Raphael in Fadan Kamantan.

Seminarian is burned to death in Nigeria in endless cycle of violence against Christians

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In an endless cycle of violence against Christians in Nigeria, seminarian Na’Aman Danlami Stephen of the Diocese of Kafanchan was burned to death on Sept. 7 when a terrorist group called Fulani herdsmen attacked the rectory at St. Raphael Church in Fadan Kamantan.

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Student suspended over gender stance wins appeal

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An Ontario court delivered a key legal victory to Josh Alexander, the St. Joseph’s High School student from Pembroke, Ont., suspended for alleged bullying by stating in a class discussion that God created only two genders, male and female. 

A file photo shows a patient on a ventilator. The Anscombe Bioethics Center, an Oxford-based institute serving the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland, criticized the Court of Protection Sept. 4, 2023, for its late August ruling that denies an "alert and conscious" teenager on a ventilator the legal right to fight a move to put her in end-of-life care against her will.

UK teenager wants to fight for her life, but court denies her wish

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A Catholic bioethics institute has criticized a court for denying an "alert and conscious" teenager the legal right to fight a move to put her on end-of-life care against her will.

St. Anne’s Catholic School in St. Thomas, Ont., is expanding to make room for 210 more students.

Board scrambles to meet staffing needs

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The London District Catholic School Board (LDCSB) is emerging as a living example of the principles of supply and demand.

Bishop-elect Michael Kwiatkowski attended the funeral for Pope Benedict XVI in Rome this past January.

A challenging start for Ukrainian leader

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Pope Francis’ comments praising the historical Russian empire in a video conference with Russian youth were “very surprising” and “unfortunate,” says the newly appointed head of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster.

Fraser Health ordered to uncover MAiD documents

Fraser Health ordered to uncover MAiD documents

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A provincial adjudicator has ruled in favour of The B.C. Catholic newspaper and ordered the Fraser Health Authority to take the wraps off additional sections of secret documents related to the development and implementation of its controversial assisted-suicide policies and practices.

People gather at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in 2021.

Search for truth over graves is elusive

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The absence of human remains following excavations at Manitoba’s former Pine Creek Indian Residential school has attracted international attention in the form of a highly critical article in the New York Post.

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