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Covenant House partners with city to aid sex-trade workers

January 29, 2015

TORONTO - Covenant House is stepping up to give young women and girls caught in the grip of the sex trade a way out.

MP Joy Smith leaving politics to fight human trafficking

January 28, 2015

OTTAWA - Canada’s parliamentary crusader against prostitution and human trafficking is leaving federal politics. Conservative MP Joy Smith said she will not run in the next federal election so she can devote her time to fighting human trafficking in Canada.

Churches must welcome youth before gangs do, says Canadian senator

January 27, 2015

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.

Toronto Christian unity service filled with hope

January 26, 2015

TORONTO - Dave Williams happened into the closing liturgy for this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity entirely by chance. He wandered into Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, saw what was happening and immediately called his wife, Beverly John. By the end of the service, Williams and John were convinced they had stumbled into something important.

Mission-vacation concept takes hold at Thornhill parish

January 25, 2015

THORNHILL, ONT. - In 1987 Elio Madonia, then in his 50s, sold his business, retired and with his wife went on vacation to the Dominican Republic with plans to continue enjoying retirement in Florida.

St. Joe’s Sisters spearhead call to protect migrants

January 25, 2015

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.

A refugee is always an outsider

January 25, 2015

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

Christianity's survival in Mideast highly unlikely

January 23, 2015

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.

St. Felix Centre teams with city to stay open during deep freeze

January 22, 2015

TORONTO - Catholics in the city have forged relationships with secular partners to provide the homeless somewhere safe and warm during the sometimes fatally freezing temperatures of Toronto’s winter.

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

January 22, 2015

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.