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Matt Dineen, a teacher at an Ottawa Catholic high school, is calling on Canada’s bishops to help advance a national dementia strategy.

Bishops urged to support national dementia strategy

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OTTAWA - An Ottawa Catholic husband and father whose wife suffers a rare, early onset form of dementia is calling on Canada’s bishops to help advance a national dementia strategy. 

A man walks away with a bag of rice at a food distribution center. An Ipsos-Reid poll conducted in May found that 61 per cent of Canadians believe Canada should do more to help farmers int he developing world.

Poll: Canada should act to alleviate world hunger

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A third of the people in sub-Saharan Africa are chronically hungry. But, strangely, small-scale farmers, 80 per cent of them women, are the Africans most likely to come up short when trying to feed their families. 

Vicklyn Ebanes, 44, poses outside a small-scale gold mine she operates with her husband in the Diwalwal area on the Philippines’ southern island of Mindanao. The Canadian government has objected to a UN resolution to advance rights of indigenous peoples.

Canada rejects UN resolution on native rights

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The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops may have to re-fight a battle with the federal government over the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 

Bishop emeritus Francis Sharma was the first bishop of Nepal. Nepal’s Jesuits use education to undermine the negative effects of the Hindu caste system.

Church grapples with caste system in Nepal

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Bishop Anthony Francis Sharma loves his title as emeritus bishop of Nepal. He loves it because it allows him to make a little joke at his own expense.

Seven former Liberal MPs have demanded current leader Justin Trudeau rescind the policy requiring Liberal MPs to support abortion rights.

Trudeau’s ‘dictatorial stand’ attacked

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Former Liberal MPs demand leader rescind abortion policy

Sr. Marie Elisabeth Turgeon

Sr. Turgeon one step closer to sainthood

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Sr. Rita Bérubé never thought she’d live to see the beatification of Sr. Marie Elisabeth Turgeon, but the day is getting closer. 

Cardinal Turcotte

Cardinal Turcotte falls gravely ill

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The people of the Archdiocese of Montreal have been asked to pray for popular Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte as he lies ill in hospital. 

University of Toronto Professor Amir Harrak (top left) has spent his life studying Aramaic-speaking Iraq and Syria. The rich expression of Christianity in Mesopotamia, including this inscribed ceremonial cross of St. John’s Church in Qaraqosh (top centre), the mid-13th century Gate of Two Baptisms at Mar Behnam south of Mosul (right) and a 1653 genealogy of Jesus (above) are all threatened by the Islamic State

Scholar decries ‘plague’ wiping out history

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As Amir Harrak watched the news this summer, the Toronto scholar saw a history, culture and language that he devoted his life to understanding being turned to dust. Churches, monasteries, mosques blown up, libraries full of ancient manuscripts burned and the people who still speak and live according to the language of Jesus and his Apostles dispersed. The news out of Iraq could not have been worse.

Paul Coates spreads the word about the newly formed Catholic Teachers Guild of Durham.

Guild to support Catholic vocation

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Catholic educators in Durham Region now have a guild to call their own.

Bishop Tony Krotki of the Churchill-Hudson Bay Diocese is close with some of the Igloolik, Nunavut, families who had to relive painful memories involving former missionary priest Eric Dejaeger.

Bishop hopes for healing after abuse trial

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With a guilty verdict on child-sex charges against former missionary priest Eric Dejaeger, Bishop Tony Krotki hopes the people of Igloolik in the diocese of Churchill-Hudson Bay will be able to continue healing with support from the Church and away from the media spotlight of a lurid, wrenching trial.

Sonal Castelino

Faith and reason meet on campus

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TORONTO - A new lecture series hopes to channel Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman and advance his efforts to combine faith and reason on campus. 

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