Youth conference makes impact ANTIGONISH, N.S. – A youth conference held at St. Francis Xavier University last year is still being felt in Christian communities in Nova Scotia. The conference, “Youth Challenging Youth,” featured the Radix youth outreach team from Lincoln, Nebraska, a group dedicated to Christ and His teachings. The conference, which attracted nearly 500 young people between the ages of [...]
The Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN), along with the National Clergy Council have scheduled a national hour of prayer at 10 a.m. May 10 outside abortion clinics in the U.S. The call to prayer is directed especially to African Americans who are particularly hard hit by abortion providers. Organizers of the prayer effort will include clinics run by Planned Parenthood in [...]
Is there any reliable information about the numbers of human embryos that are frozen or used for experiments in Canada or elsewhere? K.A. Ottawa In Canada? No. There are, however, some statistics from Britain. Early this year, in answer to a question tabled in the House of Commons by David Alton, M.P., and a Parliamentary Written Answer revealed that 64,053 embryos had [...]
QUESTION: Do you ever favor removing a child from one school to transfer him to another? DR. DOBSON: Yes, there are times when a change of schools – or even a change of teachers within a school – can be in the child’s best interest. Educators are reluctant to approve these transfers, for obvious reasons, although the possibility should be considered when [...]
Toronto – The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) has been granted intervenor status for Supreme Court cases involving unborn children and sexual orientation. The first involves the Manitoba ruling that a pregnant solvent addict could not be confined to a substance abuse program to protect the unborn child. The second deals with an Alberta case arguing the inclusion of sexual orientation in [...]
Morgy was on the phone. Ever since I saved him from being publicly executed in China recently, Morgy can’t do enough for me. “Frank, you don’t know how grateful I am that you flew all the way to China to save my life.” “Stop reminding me! What was I thinking of? It must’ve been the free trip in your Lear jet.” “I [...]
We live in a society with soft pretensions to self-knowledge, decency, democracy and the respect for human rights. The illusion is becoming more difficult to sustain. The tangle of pathology revealed by increasing rates of theft, violence, addiction, demoralization, familial breakdown, and educational failure, once confined to the fringe, has expanded to most parts of society. Political, social and economic remedies put [...]
CHARLOTTETOWN – The 1997 National Pro-Life Convention will be held in Prince Edward Island June 26-28. It will be the first such event held here since 1988. “This conference celebrates the sanctity of life, so it is very fitting to hold it in this Sanctuary of Life – the only abortion-free province in Canada,” says provincial president Vincent McIntyre. “It will uplift, [...]
There’s an interesting reference in Ted Gerk’s new column in this month’s Interim about efforts to exclude pro-life people from some aspects of public life. Gerk’s argument is that as more and more people discover the truth behind the abortion industry, they will eventually find their way to the pro-life position. In the meantime however, vested pro-abortion interests have upped the stakes, [...]
The failure of Roseanne Skoke to win the Liberal party nomination in Picton-Antigonish-Guysborough is a setback not only for her Nova Scotia supporters, but for pro-life people across the country. Since being elected in 1993, Skoke has been one of the most vocal defenders of unborn children on the federal scene. Unlike many of her colleagues on Parliament Hill, Skoke refused to [...]
Pro-life nurses are facing a threat in hospital restructuring plans made necessary by financial cutbacks in some parts of the country, particularly Ontario. The consolidation of maternity areas and obstetrical-gynecological services is one sector in which rationalization is planned. Such a development would mean that nurses working until now exclusively in maternity face the prospect of having to assist in abortion service. [...]
A “sanctity of life” commission established by the Mission Synod of the Lutheran Church has released a statement offering a fresh approach to life issues and continuing the church’s high profile pro-life testimony. Entitled That They Might Have Life, (John 10:10), the statement will be used by church workers and the Lutheran laity to promote an increased awareness of life issues. Some [...]
“Evangelicals cannot live on the sidelines” Gary R. Walsh, the current Bishop of the Free Methodist Church in Canada has been unanimously elected president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC). Walsh succeeds Dr. Brian Stiller who stepped down after 14 years. EPC serves as a national voice and network for the Canadian evangelical community. EPC’s membership includes 28 denominations and over [...]
Interim Staff Pro-life officials have serious reservations about right to die legislation now being debated in the Canadian Senate. Bill S-13, also known as a live-and-let-die law, was introduced by Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs of Manitoba. The bill, which reached second reading in early March, would amend the Criminal Code to allow doctors to withhold or remove life support treatment from terminally [...]
Alberta pro-life supporters are cautiously optimistic with news of Premier Ralph Klein’s landslide victory in the March 11 provincial election. Klein’s Conservative government captured 51 per cent of the popular vote to win 63 of the 83 seats in the Alberta legislature. The premier rode a wave to fiscal conservatism to win another mandate from to a generally complacent electorate. He ran [...]