Does the UN still represent the best hope for mankind to peacefully resolve problems of violence, injustice, inequality and poverty or has the UN strayed from its original mandate, become saddled with impossible tasks, and is now careening toward abject irrelevance? Recently the UN has come under criticism, accused of inefficiency, waste, and fraud and inept handling of peacekeeping missions. Let's not [...]
Several demonstrations held to protest CAS action The next chapter in the Aylmer, Ont. child-seizure saga is due to be written Nov. 2. That's the date when interested parties return to the courtroom for an "informal settlement conference," to determine whether the situation can be resolved without resort to a formal trial. A June 6 raid saw about a dozen police officers [...]
Show the Truth evangelizes: the truth of abortion From August 5-10, Show the Truth Canada forced Quebecers to face the reality of abortion. Led by an Ontario team directed by coordinator Rose Mary Connell from Burnt River in Ontario, the number of participants this year almost doubled from 28 last year in Montreal to 45 this time around - with nearly a [...]
The Preparatory Committee for the International Criminal Court (ICC) was addressed Sept. 25 by Jozias van Aartsen, foreign minister of the Netherlands, who told the committee that preparations in the Netherlands, where the ICC is to be located, are progressing rapidly to ensure that the court could begin operations from its very first day, which he said could be as early as [...]
Harriet D'Sa spoke at the Toronto office of Campaign Life Coalition to bring attention to the issues facing life and family in her native India. During the July 30 event, D'Sa, a principal at St. Joseph's High School in Bangalore in southern India, said her nation's anti-female attitudes are at the root of the problems of abortion and marital breakdown. D'Sa, who [...]
This past summer, the French high court ruled in favour of a family of a severely disabled French teen in a lawsuit against medical authorities that in effect says the child ought never have been born. The decision in this "wrongful birth" lawsuit implicitly accepts that Nicholas Perruche, who has heart problems and is deaf, dumb, partly blind, and mentally disabled, should [...]
If there is one thing that Bill Whatcott doesn't do, it's miss an opportunity to proclaim what he believes. A big part of what he believes is that freedom of speech, justice and Christian activism are in short supply. To Whatcott, freedom of speech includes the right to denounce those things he considers morally wrong and destructive as well as the option [...]
Pro-abortionists' quest for their Holy Grail of a "safe and easy" abortion method has suffered a hard blow with the news that a Canadian woman has died during a second clinical trial of the so-called abortion pill, RU-486. The unidentified woman, whose place of residence and death is also not known, began medicinal treatments for an abortion on August 23. She was [...]
Edmonton is not gaining a new abortuary - the city's Henry Morgentaler abortion mill is merely changing locations. But the secretive way it is doing so is causing nearly as much furor. The Morgentaler abortuary is leaving the Canora location it has occupied for ten years and moving to Westmount, at 12409 - 109A Avenue, at an unknown date. Renovations have been [...]
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), at a major crossroad in his life in 1896, wrote a letter to a friend expressing his desire to become a philosopher: "As a young man I longed for nothing else than philosophical knowledge, and I am now on the way to satisfy that longing by passing from medicine to psychology." In one sense, his philosophy was simple and [...]
A conversation between U.S. Christian leaders Pat Robertson and Rev. Jerry Falwell on the 700 Club Sept.14 provoked strong media reaction. Both Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, and Falwell, a Baptist minister and chancellor of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., said that God had lifted his hand of protection from the country and that Americans must repent. Robertson listed insults to [...]
On Sept. 14, Rev. Billy Graham gave the following sermon during the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. These are excerpts from his remarks. President and Mrs. Bush, I want to say a personal word on behalf of many people. Thank you, Mr. President, for calling this Day of Prayer and Remembrance. We needed it [...]
During the Sept. 14 National Day of Mourning, Prime Minister Jean Chretien said, "Words fail us." Especially one word - God. It was a word that was not uttered during the official ceremonies on Parliament Hill. Many Canadians of faith were appalled by government services that failed to mention anything greater than or outside ourselves, reminiscent of other public ceremonies that expunged [...]
CLC staffer was to be in WTC days later While the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 took place hundreds of kilometers from the Toronto offices of Campaign Life Coalition, several staff and volunteers were intimately affected by the tragic events of that day. Samantha Singson, who works in the offices when she is not at school, had just returned from New York [...]
What is it about the United Nations that evokes concern among many throughout the world? A review of news and events from recent years, in roughly chronological order, offers a number of possible reasons. Founded in the wake of the devastating Second World War as a way of increasing co-operation, strengthening the flow of communication and averting future widespread conflicts, the UN, [...]