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News and events from across the country.

Rights league chooses new executive director

July 11, 2014

TORONTO - The Catholic Civil Rights League of Canada has chosen Christian Elia as its new executive director.

CNEWA pleads for help for Iraqi Christians

July 10, 2014

OTTAWA - The Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) has put out an urgent plea for help aiding Iraqi Christians targeted in a “brutal civil war.”

Pope Francis reaches out to evangelical, charismatic leaders

July 10, 2014

OTTAWA - Pope Francis has taken the first steps towards forging unprecedented bonds with evangelical and charismatic Protestant groups, CCN has learned.

ShareLife looking for push in final weeks

July 10, 2014

TORONTO - With less than a month left in the 2014 ShareLife parish campaign, the charitable fundraising arm of the Archdiocese of Toronto is still more than a million dollars shy of its $12.65-million goal.

Steubenville rocks Toronto

July 9, 2014

TORONTO - Hundreds of students lining up for reconciliation, kids playing Frisbee with the Sisters of Life, bishops sitting with teens rocking out to worship-and-praise music and thousands of young people on their knees adoring the Eucharist — scenes from Toronto’s first Steubenville youth conference.

Federal Court reinstates health coverage for refugees

July 8, 2014

Sam is a refugee from Pakistan and a cancer survivor thanks to Church fundraisers and the generosity of doctors and hospitals working for free. He said he thanked God when the Federal Court ruled on July 4 that he is now entitled to health coverage from the federal government.

Bill C-36: protection over exploitation

July 8, 2014

OTTAWA - The federal government had a choice with its new prostitution regulations, said Justice Minister Peter McKay: it could “condone the exploitation” of women and children “or protect them.”

Lorraine Williams lived a life with purpose

July 7, 2014

Lorraine Williams was never just passing through during her 81 years on the planet. She knew life had a purpose and she was ever-ready to work, fight and pray for it.

IMFC debunks myths on income splitting

June 30, 2014

OTTAWA - The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada (IMFC) has released a study debunking myths about income splitting as a way to provide tax relief for Canadian families.

St. Martin’s Manor unlocks future for teen moms

June 30, 2014

HAMILTON, ONT. - The future is a kind of massive cloud of the unknown, a mix of the probable and the impossible, that is constantly smothering the present. Every life has a little history, but lives are lived for, in and with the future.