Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about Jean Vanier: Vanier: ‘Close to a saint’ The founder of L’Arche has spent nearly a lifetime championing the severely disabled. National Post, November 3 Spiritual pedigree linked to Therese Jean Vanier was blessed […]
Bill Vander Zalm leaves provincial politics again
Former BC Premier Bill Vander Zalm is taking a break from provincial politics again so he can open a “spiritual theme park” in Hawaii, reports Province columnist Michael Smyth. Just a few months ago, Vander Zalm led the way in creating the Unity Party, a proposed merger of the B.C. Reform and Family Coalition parties […]
Orthodox bishop can seize church assets, says Ontario Court
“The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled on a rancorous church dispute in Ottawa, saying a Russian Orthodox bishop in Canada has every right to seize the assets of a dissident parish to prevent it from defecting,” reports The National Post. “The court’s ruling means the renegade parishioners — about 100 Ottawa residents — have […]
Offshore bank charged with fleecing evangelical investors
An offshore bank founded four years ago by an ex-preacher may have bilked North American evangelicals of over $200 million in a scandal that, according to Saturday Night magazine, is “shaping up to be one of the biggest and most bizarre scams ever to hit the secretive world of offshore investing.” The FBI is investigating […]