The Alberta Federation of Women United for Families (AFWUF) held its annual conference November 2 to 3, in Red Deer, Alberta. Approximately 200 registrants attended the conference entitled “In this together.” The conference addressed the issues of pornography, sex education, post-abortion trauma, childcare, women and stress, political strategies, family violence and sexual abuse. AFWUF was formed in 1981 by seven Alberta women [...]
The Canadian Youth Pro-Life Organization (CYPLO) national conference attracted 450 enthusiastic young people in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from October 12 to 14. Youth from across Canada were present to educate themselves on various pro-life topics including youth action, the media, Planned Parenthood, adoption, euthanasia, Post Abortion Syndrome and chastity. During her address on youth action, president-elect Coby Vandenberg stressed that “an individual can [...]
Edmonton Noted pro-life activist Gerard Liston fasted here during the first two weeks of October to make amends for the world’s heartless attitude to the unborn child. He was responding to the call from the Movement of Marian Lay Organizations (MMLO), a network of religious and pro-life groups, to unite in a weeklong “Supernatural Rescue” mission. Roman Catholic pro-lifers across North America [...]
Like shining stars, five babies will celebrate their first Christmas and their gift of life this year. Last year they narrowly escaped death by abortion. Their mothers decided to choose life because of an Operation Rescue (O.R.) on August 23, 1989. This public, pro-life protest before Morgentaler’s abortuary in downtown Toronto caused each to reconsider her plan for abortion. Each called Campaign [...]
In the ongoing battle to preserve some shred of Christianity in the public school system, one Ontario family decided it could no longer sit back and watch. David and Muriel Clarke of Waterloo gathered concerned friends and neighbors – about ten in al – to form Parents for a Christian Public School in the spring of 1989. Valueless school system In a [...]
I wonder whether you have the quote by Henry Hyde about idle silence and abortion. I wanted to use it in our church. M.B., Winnipeg, MB U.S. Congressman Henry Hyde, often speaks of the duty of Christians to fight the evil of abortion. His quotation is from St. Ambrose and is as follows: “Not only for every idle word but for every [...]
Vancouver Pro-lifers from the B.C. lower mainland as well as Washington State met here October 27 to attend a seminar on Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS). Pregnancy and post-abortion counselors gathered in the Burnaby Christian Fellowship’s McPherson Centre to hear U.S post-abortion counselor Teri Reisser share information on the women behind the decision, women who faced problem pregnancies, chose to have an abortion [...]
Call me alarmist if you will, but Canada is in a statist crisis. Our country is on the path towards state intervention in nearly every corner of life. This includes education, the economy, family policy, health, human rights and welfare. Our largest province was captured by the NDP in September, and recent polls indicate that the Socialists may take over the entire [...]
At a Southwest Ontario Regional Birthright Conference, held in Kitchener on November 10, Dr. Donald DeMarco, professor of philosophy at St. Jerome’s College, raised some of the issues associated with the new reproductive technologies. He paid particular attention to the weakening of parenthood and the intensification of individualism. Medicine Dr. John Meenan, a general practitioner from Kitchener, prominent member of Physicians for [...]
Brighton is a resort city on the south coast of England, a kind of Atlantic City with fish and chips. It is also the site of the largest abortuary in Britain, attracting many “clients” from the Continent a short distance across the Channel. It also has an up-to-date conference hall. Princess Diana From July 12 to 15 of this year, the International [...]
From September 7 to 9, the city of Slavonski Brod, in Croatian Yugoslavia, was the site of a conference on the Future of Medicine in Europe. The goal of this conference was to help shape medical ethics and policy in the emerging countries of Eastern Europe along pro-life and Christian lines. It was attended by several hundred East European doctors, nurses, other [...]
James F. Carney, RC Archbishop of Vancouver, well-known for his energetic pro-life stand, died of cancer on September 16. The Archbishop was also a strong supporter of Pope Paul VI’s landmark encyclical, Humanae Vitae (1968), which condemned artificial contraception. This set him apart from many Canadian bishops who believed that the encyclical should be softened in its pastoral application. In 1983, Carney [...]
Malcolm Muggeridge, who died on November 14 at the age of 87, was famous as a journalist and radio and television personality. In the early 1930s, he was one of the few newspaper correspondents in Russia who did not tell lies about the starvation then occurring. While Walter Durranty of the New York Times was flattering the regime by telling lies about [...]
CATHOLICS The International Synod of Bishops meeting in Rome on the subject of ‘The Formation of Priests’ concluded at the end of October. The Synod, said Pope John Paul, had faced the identity crisis which priests suffered since Vatican II, had reaffirmed the true nature of their vocation, and would bring new hope. An earlier Synod report had indicated that the overall [...]
The political process is a part of public life that is by its very nature infused with moral content. A legislator’s vote for or against a proposal represents that legislator’s value judgment as to the benefit or detriment that the proposal would bring to society. This is particularly true in the case of abortion legislation. Abortion involves the most basic right, the [...]