A network of evangelical Christians in Mississauga, Ont., just outside Toronto, is demonstrating how effective Christian activism can be. Centred around a periodic e-mail dispatch called the PALM (Pray ALways Mississauga) Report, the network has been particularly effective in combating the proliferation of massage parlours and the acts of prostitution that often accompany them. "We've seen some interesting results," says Bruce Fligg, [...]
On Sept. 20, approximately 1,000 people attended Love Won Out, a conference on homosexuality hosted by Focus on the Family and held in Scarborough, Ont. Developed to address the complex issues surrounding same-sex attraction, Love Won Out accomplished its goal with sensitivity and fidelity to gospel values. Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, psychologist and president of the National Association of Research and Therapy of [...]
By Elsie Wayne Special to The Interim Editor's Note: The following is a speech by Elsie Wayne (PC, Saint John, N.B.) during the Sept. 30 debate over M-83, a private member's motion requesting the House of Commons Standing Health Committee study whether abortion is medically necessary and explore the medical consequences of abortion. The motion was defeated. Mr. Speaker, I want to [...]
During a debate among the Toronto mayoral candidates at Osgoode Hall law school, NDP city councillor David Miller criticized former Liberal and independent MP John Nunziata for his pro-life views. Dramatically, Miller reached into his pocket and pulled out a copy of pro-life legislation the former MP supported in the 1980s and attacked Nunziata's opposition to "reproductive choice." Miller added: "I think [...]
A pro-family organization in Hamilton is taking at least part of the credit for a significant drop in teen pregnancies in that city during the latest years for which statistics are available. The pregnancy rate for girls in Hamilton aged 15-19 dropped from either 51.3 or 49.6 per thousand in 1997 (depending on the source of the statistics) to 39.8 per thousand [...]
Several universities in the Washington, D.C. area were recently invaded by pro-lifers. These weren't just any pro-lifers. They were Canadian pro-lifers. The Centre for Bio-Ethical reform took its autumn tour of the Genocide Awareness Project to schools around and inside "the Beltway" Sept. 24 to Oct. 8, including to the University of Delaware, the University of Maryland and George Mason University. GAP, [...]
Many see the roots of the abortion problem, and other attacks on human life, as rooted in the phenomenon of contraception. To that end, a Mississauga, Ont.-based Catholic lay apostolate is drawing attention to this aspect of the culture of death, as well as to the importance of rank-and-file Catholics following their church's teachings forbidding the use of contraception in any state [...]
The first Sunday in October is a busy day in Canada. Most pro-lifers know it as Life Chain Sunday, but it is also the day that the CIBC sponsors Run for the Cure, an event that raises money for breast cancer research. This year, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, which organizes and profits from the run, reports on its website that the [...]
Man is a great mystery to himself. Human beings ask themselves basic questions such as: how did I come to exist? Where am I going? What is the point of my life? Why am I here? Questions like these are elementary and must be answered if humans are to understand themselves. The Bible, the Word of God, gives us answers to the [...]
In a widely anticipated move, the Supreme Court of Canada on Oct. 9 avoided direct comment on the current political machinations aimed at redefining marriage, by quashing an application for leave to appeal by religious and pro-family coalitions that were fighting lower-court decisions on the matter. The court gave no reasons for its refusal to hear an appeal of the June 10 [...]
The life of 39-year-old Terri Schiavo, who was brain damaged in an apparent heart attack in 1999, is in the hands of the legislatures and lawyers of the state of Florida. The court-ordered removal of Terri's feeding tube on Oct. 15 was overturned by a bill passed in the Florida state legislature six days later. But the passage of the bill, which [...]
After almost seven years of fighting his abortion-protest conviction, Nelson B.C. abortion fighter Jim Demers hasn't lost his passion or strong opinion of the judiciary. "Gutless" was how he described the Canadian Supreme Court's recent refusal to even hear his precedent-setting case. His trek began in 1996, when he was arrested under British Columbia's draconian Access to Abortion Act, for parading a [...]
Delegates from around the world met at the UN Sept. 29 to Oct. 3. They were charged with the task of drafting an international ban on human cloning. But they didn't get that far. In fact, they couldn't even get started. The members of the working group of the Sixth Committee, the committee of the United Nations General Assembly that handles international [...]
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved use of RU-486 as a chemical abortion method in 2000, it said it was "safe and effective." While its safety has proven to be dubious, it is effective in its intended purpose: to kill unborn babies. The FDA approved use of the abortion pill for pregnancies of up to 49 days. It involves a [...]
On Sept. 17, the abortion drug RU-486 claimed its latest victim, a California teen. Well, that is not exactly true. Every day, hundreds of tiny, unborn victims are also killed by the chemical abortion agent. On Sept. 10, Holly Patterson, an 18-year-old girl from Livermore in the San Francisco-area, was given Mifepristone (the first of two stages in administering RU-486) at a [...]