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TORONTO - Toronto schools got to join in on the NBA All-Star excitement through the National Basketball Association's FIT program to promote fitness and healthy living among youth.

Laudato Si’ a call to culture change

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TORONTO - Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ may focus on climate change, but the essence of the Pope’s environmental encyclical is really a call for cultural change, said the director of the Vatican Observatory.

Aid workers remembered as people who touched lives

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MONTREAL - Six Canadian aid workers killed in a terrorist attack in Burkina Faso last month were remembered at their respective funerals on Feb. 6 as humanitarians who touched lives and left people on two continents in mourning.

Campus pro-lifers take their fight to courts

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TORONTO - Five pro-life student groups are before the courts fighting to have their voice heard on campus.

Catholic Crosscultural Services teams with federal government to link Syrians

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TORONTO - The federal government is seeking to pair displaced Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war in their homeland with their families already in Canada or with groups ready to sponsor them.

Canada asked to recognize genocide of Christians

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OTTAWA - The Canadian government should join the European Union in labelling the persecution of Christians by Islamic State jihadists a genocide, said Aid to the Church in Need.

NDP seeks right to palliative care

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OTTAWA - If legalized assisted suicide is one wing of the bird the other wing is palliative care, said MP Murray Rankin as he tabled a motion to make access to palliative care a right for all Canadians.

Up to 12,000 Canadians could be killed annually

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OTTAWA - Bioethicist Margaret Somerville warned up to 12,000 people could be euthanized annually in Canada if a new law does not ensure euthanasia is exceptional, rare and used only as a last resort.

Aid workers remembered as people who touched lives

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Six Canadian aid workers killed in a terrorist attack in Burkina Faso last month were remembered at their respective funerals on Feb. 6 as humanitarians who touched lives and left people on two continents in mourning.

Youth open to Year of Consecrated Life

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TORONTO - For Sr. Zilda Carvalho, the Year of Consecrated Life served not only as a call for celebration amongst her fellow religious but as a catalyst for conversations with youth about vocations and faith.

70 years married and counting

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TORONTO - In a society that sees marriage as counter-cultural, Pope John Paul II gave his apostolic blessing in 1993 to World Marriage Day, or Marriage Sunday, to encourage married couples to continue the family’s mission to be a “fundamental cell of that larger society, for the Church and for the new evangelization.”