An Italian court has cleared 24-year-old American Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito of charges relating to the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. They were facing up to 26 years if found guilty of the murder and sexual assault of Kercher which happened four years ago. Knox gave an impassioned final closing statement in […]
Baby Joseph Dies Peacefully at Home
The terminally ill Baby Joseph, who was at the heart of a legal and ethical debate over the right to life, passed away Tuesday by his family’s side at his Windsor Ontario home. The 20-month old Joseph Maraachli had suffered from a degenerative neurological disease which left him in a vegetative state and requiring assisted […]
Dead Sea Scrolls now Online
The Israel Museum in partnership with Google have just made five of the eight the dead sea scrolls available online. Prior to the completion of this project, the scrolls could only be viewed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Now they can be searched and read through here. The manuscripts were discovered between 1947 and […]
Serial killer Clifford Olson dying of cancer
Infamous serial killer Clifford Olson, 71, is dying of cancer in a Quebec hospital with only days to live. The self proclaimed “Beast of British Columbia” is currently serving 11 consecutive life sentences after being convicted in 1982 of killing three boys and eight girls is dying of cancer. Corrections Canada has informed the families […]
Rob Bell resigns from Mars Hill
Mars Hill pastor Rob Bell, author of the controversial book Love Wins: Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, will be leaving the church that he helped propel into the spotlight. According to a statement issued on the Mars Hill church website, Bell, “Feeling the call from God to pursue […]
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 […]
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repealed
For many years the United States military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy protected closeted gay, lesbian, or bisexuals from experiencing discrimination and harassment. The same policy also prevented these same people from serving the military as openly gay. The policy was introduced in 1993 during the presidency of Bill Clinton who had made the campaign […]
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 […]
Church offers Hebert family comfort
News of 3 year old Kienan Hebert’s abduction touched many of the residents of BC. On Saturday September 10th, Ron Rutley the pastor of the Hebert family held a special service at Sparwood Fellowship Baptist Church. That night Kienan was safely returned home by his abductor. The following is an excerpt from Rutley’s sermon: “So while […]
Historic Anglican congregation moves over differences in belief
VANCOUVER, BC – St. John’s Vancouver Anglican Church, the largest Anglican congregation in Canada, will move from its present historic location on Granville Street and Nanton Avenue, as a result of an on-going world-wide upheaval in the Anglican Communion, the 80 million member Christian Protestant denomination formed 500 years ago under King Henry VIII of […]
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