TWU’s successful blood donation clinic is used as a template at other schools In 2011, Trinity Western University became a member of Canadian Blood Service’s Partners of Life, a program that works with various corporate and community organizations to collect blood donations and raise awareness of the importance of such donations. Since that time, TWU […]
Museum Exhibit Sparks Controversy
An exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa has aroused considerable criticism, including from the minister whose government department funds the museum. The museum’s website says Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition, which opened May 17, “presents information on sexuality in a scientific, engaging and interactive manner.” It adds that the exhibition was created […]
The Pain Continues
The July 2011 division of Sudan into two countries, a mainly Muslim and Arab north and a mainly Christian and animist black south, has not resolved the violence that killed 2 million people and created millions of refugees, mainly in the south. Fighting is now escalating over disputed territory along the border, including control of […]
News Roundup May 10, 2012
Big Impact 150,000 people attended a two-night open-air music festival in Asuncion, Paraguay April 27-28. Besides the music, there were Christian testimonies by well-known soccer players and messages by evangelist Luis Palau and his son Andrew; 12,000 people indicated they had decided to become followers of Jesus. The festival was broadcast live on two national […]
A Church by Any Other Name Will Be Closed
According to ChinaAid, the Public Security Commission of China’s Communist Party Central Committee issued a secret plan in December 2010 to eradicate China’s house churches. The plan calls for all the churches and clergy to be documented on a computerized list by June 2012; churches and clergy not on the list would then be deemed […]
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 […]
400-Year-Old Definition
Stephen Woodworth, a Conservative Member of Parliament from Kitchener, Ontario, introduced Motion 312 on April 26. The private member’s bill would establish a committee to re-examine section 223 of the Criminal Code, which states that a child only becomes a human being once he or she has fully proceeded from the womb. Woodward said that […]
Pro-life display vandalized
Four young men who tore down a pro-life display at Northern Kentucky University in early April have been charged with criminal mischief. One of the suspects told a local newspaper, “Tearing it down was expressing our right to free speech.” On the other hand, campus police simply watched another student put condoms on a pro-life […]
Parents feel bullied by anti-bullying law
A rally is scheduled for April 28 in Kitchener, Ontario, against an Ontario government bill that protest organizers say will “subvert parental rights and freedom of religion.” An earlier rally, on March 29 in Toronto, drew a crowd of 2,000. Bill 13, the Accepting Schools Act, was introduced in late 2011 and is currently being […]
Chuck Colson passes away at 80
Evangelical Christian leader Chuck Colson died Saturday (April 21). His death came after news that he had been rushed into emergency surgery in a Washington, DC hospital to remove a blood clot on the surface of his brain. Colson had collapsed the night prior while speaking at a conference in Virginia. “At times, Chuck showed […]
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