Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about Christmas: Jewish family pulls boy from schoolA Shawnigan Lake mother has pulled her five-year-old boy from his kindergarten class at Ecole Mill Bay because she says Christmas has gone beyond the annual concert […]
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Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about The Golden Compass: Kidman the icy queen of evil ‘She loves herself and hates herself at the same time,’ she says of the diabolical Mrs. Coulter CanWest News Service, December 7 Wrong direction This […]
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Veteran Christian leader Bob Birch passed away December 4, only three weeks before his 100th birthday. He died peacefully in Burnaby Hospital of natural causes, leaving wife Margaret and three sons. Pastor Bob, as he was affectionately called, was a key church figure in Vancouver during the ’70s as the leader of St. Margaret’s, a church […]
Conservative Anglicans to establish new Canadian denomination
The Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) has followed through on its plans to set up an alternative Anglican structure for conservatives “who find themselves unable to stay in the Anglican Church of Canada but want to stay connected to the Anglican communion.” At its conference last week in Burlington, Ontario, the ANiC made a formal […]
News Briefs: November 29, 2007
Support for Saudi rape victim Toronto-based One Free World International has joined Human Rights Watch (HRW) in condemning a Saudi Arabian court ruling. The organizations are coming to the defense of a young Muslim woman who has been sentenced to 200 lashes and 6 months in prison after being gang-raped last year by seven men. […]
News round-up: November 29, 2007
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. These links were all correct at the time of publication, however, we do not check them after publication to ensure that they are still valid. Stories about the minister and her license plate: LUV UR […]
News briefs: November 22, 2007
Naskapi New Testament after 25 years After 25 years of labour, Wycliffe Bible Translators has produced a New Testament in the Naskapi language, spoken in the Kawawachikamach community of Quebec. The project was headed by Silas Nabinicaboo, a lay reader in the aboriginal church, and Bill Jancewicz of Wycliffe. Every household in the community — […]
News round-up: November 22, 2007
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about religion in Quebec: Quebec City archbishop asks forgiveness for church’s past sins The archbishop of Quebec City has issued a wide-ranging mea culpa that seeks forgiveness for the Catholic Church’s handling of sex […]
News briefs: November 15, 2007
Leprosy Mission raises $100,000 The Leprosy Mission Canada (LMC) announced November 11 that $100,000 was raised in an emergency fundraising campaign to aid the 30 million flood victims of India and Bangladesh. “Canadians immediately responded with compassion to help leprosy affected people and their neighbours, whose homes and livelihoods had been destroyed,” said executive director Peter Derrick. […]
News round-up: November 15, 2007
Stories about CBC’s documentary on Falun Gong: CBC pulls film after calls from Chinese embassy The CBC postponed the airing of a documentary about the Falun Gong spiritual movement after receiving calls from the Chinese embassy expressing concern about the film’s subject matter. Beyond the Red Wall: The Persecution of the Falun Gong was scheduled […]
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