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 […]
Painting seized
According to Assist News Service, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has seized a painting called “Cristo Portacroce” and returned it to the Gentili family. The painting was one of many forcibly taken from the estate of Federico Gentili di Giuseppe after the Nazi army invaded France in 1941. Some of the family escaped to Canada […]
Death by any other name
The Assembly of Québec Catholic Bishops issued a statement March 29 in response to a report of the Quebec government’s Dying with Dignity commission. The statement praises the report’s recommendations to improve palliative care (care for the dying) but criticized its support of “medical aid in dying.” The report supported practices similar to those in […]
400th Anniversary KJV Biblethon
In honour of the 400th Anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible, Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria is hosting a week long continuous reading of the KJV from cover to cover. Special guests will include Governor General Award-winning author Kit Pearson, CBC radio host Jo-Ann Roberts Victoria Poet Laureate Linda Rogers and, Times […]
GAiN to Help Borana Tribe
Suffering from the drought crisis in East Africa, the famished people of the Borana tribe in Kenya and Ethiopia are given a chance to make a full recovery as Global Aid Network Canada intervened in the nick of time, bringing immediate and long term relief. With most of their livestock dead, the 2500 Borana people […]
Gaddafi forces face deadline & other news
Gaddafi forces face deadline TRIPOLI — Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the head of the rebel Transitional National Council and interim leader of Libya gave forces loyal to Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi a four day deadline to surrender the areas they still control or face war. During the Arab Spring of February 2011, a movement against Gaddafi’s regime gained […]
Accident at Quebec youth camp injures 27
Sherbrooke — In an unexpected accident a tractor pulling a group of children at a Baptist Church Youth Camp in Sherbrooke, Quebec flipped over while traveling down a slope. Dozens of people were inside and some were flung from the vehicle. While some injuries are said to be serious, none are believed to be life […]
Quick News – July 22, 2011
Campus Crusade is now CRU Campus Crusade for Christ International (CCCI) will soon simply be known as CRU. This change comes after senior members of the organization had thought about rebranding because of negative connotations associated with the word “crusade”. Many still associate this word with the military conquests of Christians in the 11th – […]
Quick News – November 18, 2010
Evangelicals can also play and laugh Trinity Western University, an evangelical Christian university in Langley, B.C., is presenting the play ‘The Foreigner’ November 23-December 4. The light-hearted farce focuses on a man named Charlie who goes to a small Southern town and soon becomes privy to all the town’s secrets. Christians can dance Chantal Hunter […]
Quick News – November 11, 2010
Leave him Aziz The Catholic Syrian Archbishop of Mosul in Iraq, Georges Casmoussa, is appealing to the Iraqi government to spare the life of Tariq Aziz, who was given a death sentence by an Iraqi court on October 26. Aziz, a Catholic, is now 74, but served as foreign minister and deputy prime minister under […]