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Syrian refugees walk at Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria. Catholic Crosscultural Services has teamed with the federal government to try and link Syrian refugees with family and sponsors in Canada.

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.

Iraqi soldiers evacuate families from Ramadi, Iraq, Feb. 3, after the city was recently recaptured by Iraqi forces. A European bishops’ commission has welcomed a move by the European Parliament to classify atrocities and religious cleansing by the Islamic State as genocide. Canada has been asked to follow suit but has not done so to date.

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.

MP Murray Rankin has tabled a motion calling for the establishment of a right to palliative care along with funding to make it universally accessible.

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.

Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law founding director Margaret Somerville at the committee on physician-assisted dying.

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.

Destroyed vehicles are seen outside of the Splendid Hotel Jan. 18 in the aftermath of an an attack by extremists in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Six of the 29 people killed in the attack, including four members of one family, were volunteers from Quebec with connections to the Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

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.

During a Jan. 31 Mass recognizing the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life, Sr. Zilda Carvalho says a prayer for the many youth she spoke to about religious life during the Year of Consecrated Life

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.

Nick and Rose Mammola, married 70 years, recently renewed their marriage vows at Precious Blood parish.

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.”

A pair of activists are calling Winnipeg’s Gonzaga Middle School just another type of residential school.

Comparing Winnipeg school to residential schools ‘just odious’

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A Jesuit-inspired middle school in Winnipeg’s poorest, most violent neighbourhood has been met with accusations of cultural genocide and comparisons with the infamous residential schools that devastated native communities across Canada.

Cardinal Thomas Collins appeared before the joint Parliamentary Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying with Christian Medical and Dental Association of Canada executive director Laurence Worthen on behalf of the Coalition for HealthCARE and Conscience Feb. 3.

Cardinal Collins urges lawmakers to respect conscience rights

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OTTAWA - The upcoming federal law regarding physician-assisted death must respect the conscience rights of doctors and other health-care workers, Cardinal Thomas Collins told a Parliamentary committee.

Bishop Douglas Crosby

Suicide advocates carrying the debate

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Advocates in favour of wider access to assisted suicide have dominated parliamentary committee hearings that will help craft a new assisted-suicide law, with little opposition so far from religious voices.

Notre Dame Sister Gilberte Bussiere, 76, was kidnapped in April 2014 in northern Cameroon, where she had been a missionary since 1979. She was released after two months and now lives in Montreal.

Canadian nun tells of spiritual experience while captive in Cameroon

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MONTREAL - Notre Dame Sister Gilberte Bussiere, 76, was kidnapped in the middle of the night in April 2014, in Tchere, a small hamlet in northern Cameroon.

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