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 […]
A Syrian situation
According to a story by Barnabas Fund, reported by Assist News Service, almost all of the 50,000 to 60,000 Christians in the city of Homs in Syria have fled as fighting continues between the troops of President Bashar Assad and anti-government forces. Those who fled have said that opposition forces, including Muslim extremists from other […]
Colson hospitalized
Chuck Colson, 80, was listed in critical condition after emergency surgery in a Washington, DC, hospital on Saturday, March 31 to remove a pool of clotted blood on the surface of his brain. He had collapsed the evening before while speaking at a conference in Virginia. Colson was special counsel to US President Richard Nixon […]
Homes without children
There is a growing movement in Canada of women complaining that they were coerced into giving up their babies in church-run homes for unwed mothers from the late 1800s to the 1980s. Some are complaining that they were never informed they could keep their babies and go on social assistance. There have been calls for […]
Right to criticize
Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Paul Jeffrey ruled March 30 that Bill Whatcott has a right to criticize homosexuality. Whatcott was arrested by campus security at the University of Calgary in 2008 for distributing a pamphlet called “Truth about homosexuality.” The university then indefinitely banned him from the campus. In November 2011 provincial court […]
Is Canada Becoming a Post-Christian Country?
The term “post-Christian” is relatively recent; it was first used by professor Mary Daly in 1973. Many academics and commentators use it to describe, often from an anti-Christian perspective, a religious view or a society which has rejected the supernatural claims of the Bible. In such a society, writes Paul Heelas, “Christian stories have lost […]
Dateline Bethlehem: Christ at the Checkpoint
Brad Jersak, a pastor and writer from Abbotsford, British Columbia, recently attended the Christ at the Checkpoint conference sponsored by Bethlehem Bible College, on assignment for Plain Truth Ministries. Following is a report filed immediately after the conference. This report comes as my rich and intense week in Bethlehem winds down. I’m writing while the […]
Prostitution ruling questioned
On March 26, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that some of Canada’s prostitution laws are unconstitutional. Prostitution is legal in Canada – the appeals court noted that there is “no law that prohibits a person from selling sex, and no law that prohibits another from buying it.” However, The Criminal Code of Canada prohibits […]
March News Roundup
Don’t Cross the Government The European Court of Human Rights will try a case later this year over whether Christians in the United Kingdom have the religious right to wear a cross or crucifix openly at work. According to the Toronto Star, the case brings together four separate cases, including that of Nadia Eweida, who was suspended […]
Sexual abuse on the prairie
“We believe there are some bad things that have happened,” says Prairie Bible Institute’s www.prairie.edu president, Mark Maxwell. He adds that he has personally heard “half a dozen stories that seem to ring true.” Maxwell is referring to allegations of sexual abuse connected to Prairie, a Christian Bible school founded in Three Hills, Alberta, 90 […]
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