Interim Special NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – More than 200 pro-life supporters from southern Ontario and western New York state took part in the annual Mother’s Day Walk for Life May 11 at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls. This year marked the 20th anniversary of the popular pro-life event. Walkers converged at the center of the bridge for official ceremonies, which included [...]
Interim Special Dr. Nancy Morrison acted out of compassion when she ended a patient’s life with a lethal injection last November, relatives of the Halifax physician said yesterday. “He was gasping for air,” a family member who asked not to be named said tearfully outside Halifax provincial court. Other family members nodded in agreement. “He had about an hour left to live [...]
OTTAWA – “Our future children”, an examination of the consequences of Bill C-47, was the theme of a seminar organized in April by the Catholic Women’s League of the Ottawa archdiocese. Bill C-47, which deals with human reproductive and genetic technologies, has generated wide debate since it came to light on the public agenda. Speakers addressing the issue included Reform MP Sharon [...]
Hidden by a blue curtain identifiable only by his raspy voice, “Dr. Doe” told a Detroit federal judge what it’s like to perform thousands of second-trimester abortions. “They’re unpleasant and gory. It’s destructive surgery,” the doctor said. “None of us are pro-abortion. Some may be pro-choice. But they’re necessary.” Doe was the first witness in three scheduled days of testimony before U.S. [...]
Video In Review Euthanasia: False Light Produced by the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force Available from Life Cycle Books, 416-690-5860 1995, 15 minutes, $29.95 Denny Brace found a new oncologist when his first one coldly predicted he’d be dead in 12 months. Denny went through chemotherapy and now, three years later, with his pain under control, he jogs, lifts weights and works part-time [...]
Commission to study faith persecution ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – Canadian Christians cannot remain silent while the religious liberties of Christians and other people of faith are increasingly under attack throughout the world. Consequently, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) May 8 announced that it will establish a Religious Liberty Commission to raise awareness in Canada of the persecuted church. The announcement was made [...]
Efforts to introduce gay-positive materials into the British Columbia school system have led parents’ groups there to demand the resignation of the province’s education minister. The issue heated up in late March when the B.C. Teacher’s Federation passed a resolution calling for programs to eliminate homophobia from the province’s public school system. The teachers also approved a motion to provide leadership in [...]
Fourteen-year-old Emilia Klepacka refused to accept a junior school award for modern languages from the guest of honor who is a pro-choice candidate. She boycotted the awarding ceremony in November 1996 at John Henry Newman School in Stevanage, England. The prize was a 20-pound book token. Invited guest of honor Barbara Follett, local candidate of the Labour Party, was a found of [...]
To explain where Grace is now we need to know where Grace has been. In her words she, “Came out of the Arctic, pregnant with her fifth child in 1966.” Think what you will, but those who know her can easily conjure up an image of Grace, large of belly, propelled by a blast of cold air and snow, flying across the [...]
The Interim Support for abortion “rights,” radical feminism, homosexuality, environmentalism, earth-based religion, New Age philosophies, sexual liberation, gays in the pulpit… Although liberal Christianity, as characterized by these aspects and others, has been making rapid inroads in the last few decades (particularly since the 1960’s), the roots of the crisis within Christianity can be traced back centuries. Some might put the start [...]
Chastity Challenge tour underway MONTREAL – The Chastity Challenge team, a group of two dozen young people who present chastity as a positive, life-affirming alternative to premarital sex, began its cross Canada tour in Montreal 5-9. Over the next six weeks, the team is scheduled to present the chastity message to students from British Columbia to Newfoundland. The team will perform in [...]
Pro-life groups question the recommendations of a survey, which found an increasing number of Ontario hospitals no longer offer abortion. The survey, released in April by the Institute of Clinical and Evaluative Sciences, reported that more than half the hospitals in the province no longer commit abortions. The main reason given for the trend is personal choice by physicians, followed by concerns [...]
Lord, forgive and heal the deep emotional, physical and spiritual wounds of women who have had abortions. Pour the healing power of Your love into their hearts so that they may seek and accept Your forgiveness. God of mercy, be especially merciful to them, for so often they did not know the wrong they were doing. Lead them to those who will [...]
How, by allowing early abortions, does compromise provide ammunition for euthanasia? J.S. Mississauga Charles E. Rice, Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School points to this danger in No Exceptions: A Pro-Life Imperative. The danger is a “functional definition of personhood,” according to which, “You will be treated as a person only to the extent that you can function satisfactorily to [...]
QUESTION: My wife is a full-time homemaker, and we have three children under 6 years of age. She often gets depressed, especially when she can’t keep up with everything expected of her. But I have my hands full too, and am required to put in a lot of overtime. What can I do o help my wife cope with these busy years? [...]