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Robert G. Kuhn, president of TWU, stressed in a statement that despite the decision, TWU “will remain a Biblically-based, mission-focused, academically excellent University, fully committed to our foundational evangelical Christian principles.”

Trinity Western University removes mandatory community covenant

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OTTAWA – After battling all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada to defend its mandatory community covenant, Trinity Western University (TWU) has decided to drop it for students.

Lightning sparked a wildfire northwest of Telegraph Creek in the northern part of the province Aug. 1, and a local state of emergency was declared three days later. All 300 residents of Telegraph Creek were told to evacuate Aug. 5, and they fled to Dease Lake and nearby communities.

Northern B.C. residents 'broken' as wildfire ravages homes, church

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VANCOUVER – Catholics in the Diocese of Whitehorse, Yukon, sought assistance after a devastating wildfire in Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, destroyed a mission church, rectory and homes.
Worshippers attend a candlelight procession in 2016 at the annual Skaro Pilgrimage in Alberta. The shrine was built in 1919 by Polish pioneers who hauled 600 wagonloads of stones to the site.

After a century, Marian shrine in Alberta still draws thousands

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SKARO, Alberta (CNS) -- It's easy to drive by the stone grotto at the Skaro shrine for those who don't know its history.
Health Canada reported that across the country there were 1,179, medically assisted deaths between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2017. That’s approximately 0.9 per cent of all deaths, up from 0.6 per cent in the previous six months.

Can a doctor-assisted death be ‘natural’ and ‘suicide’?

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Whenever a doctor assists in a suicide in Ontario by injecting a patient with chemicals to stop the heart, it is recorded on the death certificate as a natural death. 

Young adult meet at a Spiritus Via event, a young adult ministry organized by the Office of Catholic Youth at St. Timothy's Catholic Church, Toronto.

Toronto young adult ministry spreads its wings

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Samantha Rossi had just graduated from university in 2017 when she began to feel apprehensive about what she wanted to do next. 

Mass at Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver, British Columbia, Dec. 15, 2016.

Global study finds Canada has widest gap in religious practice between younger and older generations

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VANCOUVER – A recent poll has confirmed what most youth ministry workers are already losing sleep over: young people across the globe tend to be less religious than their elders.

New St. Vincent de Paul director puts Canada-wide focus on advocacy for poor 

New St. Vincent de Paul director puts Canada-wide focus on advocacy for poor 

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The umbrella organization for hundreds of St. Vincent de Paul councils in parishes across Canada is getting ready to step into the national spotlight.

A young boy rides his bike around his neighbourhood in the reserve.

1 in 4 Canadians face financial hardship, Angus Reid poll finds

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A new report from the Angus Reid Institute showing poverty may be a bigger problem than official statistics indicate is ramping up pressure on Ottawa to unveil a federal poverty reduction strategy.

“We’re not here to make an enemy of the new government. We’re here to say this is a necessity," Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, says.

Conservative platform included protection of conscience rights

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A petition demanding conscience rights for doctors who oppose assisted suicide is the first move in a multi-pronged strategy to persuade Ontario’s new government to enshrine such rights in law.

Tar sands at Fort McMurray, Alberta, 2012.

Ecumenical statement embraces Christian concern for environment

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Canada’s two largest churches, which represent two-thirds of Canadian Christians, have jointly declared that climate change and ecological degradation are central, enduring concerns for Christians.

Fr. Joe MacDonald has spent more than 50 years as a priest, most of those years caring for ex-psychiatric patients.

The poverello of Toronto: Fr. Joe MacDonald ministered to the mentally ill

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During his life, St. Francis of Assisi was known as the "poverello,” or the poor man who renounced the world to live for Jesus alone.

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Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: Lazy media suggest St. Michael's coverup 

Ever since Watergate, scandals have been covered according to the adage: “It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup,” Fr. Raymond J. de Souza writes.

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