A Burlington, Ont.-based organization, which will be the recipient of funds raised at the Feb. 10 With Love Comes Hope concert in Hamilton, is working in 51 countries around the world to combine education and mission with the goal of ensuring everyone has access to Christian education. Worldwide Christian Schools was founded in the mid-1980s in Grand Rapids, Mich. and a sister [...]
One of the few bright lights on the Canadian media landscape has gone out. Larry Henderson passed away in his sleep at the age of 89 in London, Ont. Although remembered in the mainstream media mostly for being the first regular anchor of CBC TV’s national newscast from 1954 to 1959, he is regarded in Canada’s pro-life community as a pillar of [...]
P.E.I. and Nova Scotia were the last two Canadian provinces to prohibit widespread Sunday shopping. P.E.I.’s pharmacies, corner stores and similar small operations have long been permitted to open on Sundays, but large retailers were restricted to the last four weeks before Christmas. Nova Scotia’s beleaguered government abandoned the battle this fall after a court permitted large retailers to open on Sundays. [...]
“Will the shofar be blown in the city and the populace will not tremble?” (Amos 3:6) When Rabbi Yehuda Levin blows the shofar at Washington’s annual March for Life, he is continuing a two-decade tradition there, initiated by Jews for Morality. And by using a ram’s horn on each anniversary of Roe v. Wade, he is also placing the pro-life cause within the [...]
When Malcolm Muggeridge died in 1990, it can be said without any fear of hyperbole that one of the most sparkling minds and souls of contemporary Christianity and the pro-life movement had been taken from us. The body died, but the achievements live on, mostly in books such as Jesus, The Man Who Lives, Paul, Envoy Extraordinary, volumes of autobiography, biographies of Mother [...]
Sacrificed? Truth or Politics by Larry D. Spencer (Kayteebella Productions, $17.99, 172 pages) Truth and politics – are they mutually exclusive? After reading Larry Spencer’s new book Sacrificed? Truth or Politics, the answer, unfortunately, seems to be yes. And that’s the main reason every concerned Canadian should read this well-written volume. The book is more than a simple retelling of the details surrounding [...]
When Margaret Smith discerned her calling to teach the Creighton system of natural family planning, she declared, “If, by becoming a practitioner, I prevent even one abortion, then I’ve done my job.” Adamantly pro-life, the former palliative care nurse and sometime missionary is now an integral part of the Marguerite Bourgeoys Family Centre Fertility Care Programme, which held its annual general meeting [...]
“Did I hear you gentlemen say, ‘Pro-life’?” She was the only woman in the restaurant in which I happened to be grabbing a late lunch with CLC Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. secretary Bill Murphy. We had crossed the St. Marys River to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., where our friend Tony Stackpoole owned and operated Cup-a-Day restaurant. Tony was Bill’s counterpart with Sault [...]
Last Fall, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said that his government intends to introduce pension splitting for seniors and that the Conservatives are open to income splitting for couples. The idea is to let couples split their income between them to pay lower taxes as a unit than the higher income earner or pensioner would individually. Presently, Canadians are taxed as individuals [...]
A few university campus pro-life clubs have recently held events that actively promote a positive image of the pro-life movement. Too often, pro-lifers are assumed to be negative and always against things. These events showed what pro-lifers are for – moms, babies, community support and protection of all human beings. The events are info fairs, which have been called Life Fair, Baby [...]
A woman now in her 20s, identified only as ‘Kelly,’ appeared on Fox News’s The O’Reilly Factor to relate her late-term abortion experience and the emotional aftermath she was forced to deal with as a teen. Kelly told host Bill O’Reilly that her parents took her from their Maryland home to Kansas when she was a pregnant 14-year-old to have an abortion during [...]
This year’s Father Ted Colleton Scholarship competition is serving as one of the catalysts for a remarkable surge in pro-life interest in schools across the land. Apart from the fact that much has been happening on the campuses of universities in Canada (see the page 3 article on the situation at Carelton University, for example), high schools and elementary schools are also [...]
Many of the more than 300 attendees from across Canada, and even the U.S., hailed it as the best conference of any kind they had ever been to, following the completion of Healing the Culture: A New Beginning, the Canadian national pro-life conference in Vancouver Nov. 16-18. The event revolved around the Healing the Culture concept, which seeks to build a pro-life [...]
After spending more than eight years behind bars for his last “mercy killing,” Jack Kevorkian will be freed from a Michigan prison in June, a prison spokesman announced. Kevorkian, the infamous ‘Dr. Death’ and poster boy for the euthanasia movement, killed over 130 people through assisted suicides in the 1990s, until he was sent to jail in 1999 for violating Michigan’s ban [...]
On Dec. 14, the Ireland High Court rejected a lesbian couple’s demand to have their Canadian “marriage” recognized in Ireland, in a landmark ruling closely watched by both sides of the international marriage debate. Justice Elizabeth Dunne decided against the claim of Dr. Katherine Zappone and Dr. Anne Louise Gilligan, who had argued that the state and Revenue Commissioners had violated their [...]