A TWU Christmas More than 10,000 people made their way to the second annual Great West Life Spirit of Christmas Celebration at B.C.’s Trinity Western University this past weekend. One key attraction was a uniquely Canadian ‘Living Nativity.’ Visitors were also treated to a variety of other entertainment, from kids’ singalongs and African drumming to hip hop […]
News round-up – December 6, 2007
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about Stephen Boissoin and the “anti-gay” letter: Alberta panel finds writer of anti-gay letter broke human rights law An Alberta man who has pressed for five years to get an anti-gay letter branded as […]
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Blessings seeks financial restructuring Blessings Christian Marketplace — a chain of 23 bookstores across Canada, with headquarters in Chilliwack, BC — has filed for creditor protection but has not gone bankrupt, according to co-owner Mark Hutchinson. “Blessings is not bankrupt and is not in receivership. The Blessings management team is in full control of the […]
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Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about The Golden Compass: Kidman the icy queen of evil ‘She loves herself and hates herself at the same time,’ she says of the diabolical Mrs. Coulter CanWest News Service, December 7 Wrong direction This […]
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Veteran Christian leader Bob Birch passed away December 4, only three weeks before his 100th birthday. He died peacefully in Burnaby Hospital of natural causes, leaving wife Margaret and three sons. Pastor Bob, as he was affectionately called, was a key church figure in Vancouver during the ’70s as the leader of St. Margaret’s, a church […]
News Briefs: November 29, 2007
Support for Saudi rape victim Toronto-based One Free World International has joined Human Rights Watch (HRW) in condemning a Saudi Arabian court ruling. The organizations are coming to the defense of a young Muslim woman who has been sentenced to 200 lashes and 6 months in prison after being gang-raped last year by seven men. […]
News round-up: November 29, 2007
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. These links were all correct at the time of publication, however, we do not check them after publication to ensure that they are still valid. Stories about the minister and her license plate: LUV UR […]
News briefs: November 22, 2007
Naskapi New Testament after 25 years After 25 years of labour, Wycliffe Bible Translators has produced a New Testament in the Naskapi language, spoken in the Kawawachikamach community of Quebec. The project was headed by Silas Nabinicaboo, a lay reader in the aboriginal church, and Bill Jancewicz of Wycliffe. Every household in the community — […]
News round-up: November 22, 2007
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about religion in Quebec: Quebec City archbishop asks forgiveness for church’s past sins The archbishop of Quebec City has issued a wide-ranging mea culpa that seeks forgiveness for the Catholic Church’s handling of sex […]
OttawaWatch: Details in a global context
Have you ever seen a television clip showing a satellite shot of planet Earth, which then zooms in on some tiny square footage of the same planet, with astounding detail? Such a clip is designed, at times, to demonstrate the technical developments that permit the observation and photographing of relatively small items on the earth […]