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Senator Don Meredith tells faith leaders in Toronto Jan. 26 that they have to reach out and welcome young people before violent gangs do.

Churches must welcome youth before gangs do, says Canadian senator

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TORONTO - Senator Don Meredith called on faith leaders in Toronto to “engage, encourage and empower our youth” to keep young people out of the clutches of violent gangs.

CSJ Office for Systemic Justice director Sr. Sue Wilson.

St. Joe’s Sisters spearhead call to protect migrants

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TORONTO - Pope Francis called for “the globalization of charity and co-operation” on the 101st World Day of Migrants and Refugees, but the Sisters of St. Joseph may have beaten the Pope to it with their submission to a United Nations commission in early January.

Gillian Fernandopulle left her Sri Lankan homeland as a refugee at age six. Despite being in Canada for the past 20 years, she says being a refugee is something that never leaves you.

A refugee is always an outsider

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TORONTO - At 20 Tarak has been divorced from everything — his family, his home, his childhood and a future that once seemed assured.

Aid to the Church in Need spokesperson Marie Claude Lalonde, right, speaks with Montreal Archbishop Christian Lepine. Lalonde says that in 60 per cent of countries around the world, religious liberty is compromised.

Christianity's survival in Mideast highly unlikely

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MONTREAL - The long-term survival of Christianity in the Middle East is threatened and “humanity in the region where Christianity was born will not be the same without it,” a spokesman for Aid to the Church in Need told a seminar in Montreal this week.

Fr. Joseph Chandrakanthan holds a 16th-century lamp believed to have been used by St. Joseph Vaz in Sillalai, Sri Lanka.

Toronto priest treasures saint’s lamp that kept flame of faith alight

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TORONTO - A light in the darkness has travelled across centuries, cultures and continents to wind up in Fr. Joseph Chandrakanthan’s living room in Toronto.

A Palestinian boy runs next to destroyed buildings in Gaza City Aug. 28. The destruction came amid the latest fighting between Israel and Hamas, and with the present blockade in place, few see any chance for reconstruction.

'Wall of ignorance' fuels Holy Land fears

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OTTAWA - A Canadian bishop who travelled to Gaza with the annual Holy Land Co-ordination visit to the Middle East Jan. 11-12 says fear is the biggest obstacle to mutual recognition of human dignity in the region.

Young people hold candles as they participate in an ecumenical Taize prayer service St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Dec. 29, 2013.

Prayer for unity embraced across Canada

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The opportunity annually extended to Christians worldwide to be unified in prayer comes this year from Brazil, and it is being embraced in Canada from coast to coast.

Margaret O'Gara

O’Gara ecumenical essays published

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TORONTO - One of Canada’s greatest theologians is still publishing more than two years after she died.

At top is the new logo for Montreal’s Collective Community Services, which has dropped Catholic from its name. The name change has irritated the archdiocese and Bishop Thomas Dowd says it will create something to replace the agency.

‘Catholic’ is removed from Montreal social agency’s name

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MONTREAL - Montreal’s Catholic Community Services is no longer Catholic.

Syrian refugees warm themselves around a fire Dec. 3 in Ankara, Turkey. Martin Mark, right, executive director of Office of Refugees, Archdiocese of Toronto welcomes Canada’s pledge to bring in more refugees from the Middle East, but wished the government had consulted with refugee advocates before making its announcement.

Catholic sponsors set to answer call as Canada to take in 13,000 refugees

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TORONTO - Catholic refugee sponsors stand ready to do their part in bringing 10,000 Syrian refugees to Canada, but they want to hear more from the federal government about its plans.

The New Brunswick Liberal government has removed the legal requirement for a specialized license to perform an abortion procedure. Any doctors can now perform an abortion.

New abortion regulations take hold in New Brunswick

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With the new year came fewer abortion restrictions in New Brunswick, to the dismay of pro-lifers.

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