When I heard that Joanne Dieleman had retired from Aid to Women, I wanted to write an article about her wonderful, 20-year contribution to pro-life. But as I sat down to write, I realized that I was not familiar enough with the everyday inside workings of Aid to Women, so I asked Joanne's colleague at the crisis pregnancy counselling centre, Robert Hinchey, [...]
Interim Staff Organizers of a one-day conference in Burlington hope to spur Christians to practical action in the culture wars. Equipping Christians for the Public Square will hold its first annual Ignite Our Culture conference at the Crossroads Centre on Nov. 13 from 9 a.m.to 5 p.m. in hopes of motivating people to become more involved in the political realm and in [...]
Two new Anglican structures commissioned In the wake of their national church declaring homosexual relations holy, 700 biblically orthodox Anglicans have met in Ottawa to form two new organizations: the Anglican Federation and the Anglican Network. The two structures were commissioned during The Way Forward, a national conference Aug. 30-Sept. 1 sponsored by Essentials, a coalition of evangelical, charismatic and prayer book [...]
Rebecca Porter is the director of Florida's "Operation Outcry Silent No More." She is, one might say, not so much "pro-choice" these days as she is "pro-voice." She, and countless "victims of choice," who have been hurt by abortion and carry with them deep personal scars, do not want to remain silent, lest their absence of a voice lead people to think [...]
I met two people in my life whom I genuinely feel should be declared saints (other than my wife and my bank manager) and they are Dr. Jerome Lejeune and Joe (hold on now) ... Borowski. One, Dr. Lejeune, a genius and world-renowned scientist, and devout, pro-life Catholic, who discovered the cause of Down syndrome and the other, Joe Borowski, a former [...]
A man who was instrumental in the founding of Campaign Life (a predecessor to the current Campaign Life Coalition) in 1978 is being remembered as an individual who would do whatever he could for the pro-life cause. Dr. Al Selinger passed away at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Care Centre August 6 at the age of 78. In addition to pro-life work, he was [...]
Thanks to the generosity of Interim readers, an orphanage and family centre run by a Catholic priest in a Rwandan village is $1,400 richer, bringing the total raised in a recent Canadian fundraising initiative for the projects to about $41,000. Peter Tassi, a Hamilton Catholic high school chaplain who helped organize the fundraising effort, which included the staging of a concert, expressed [...]
When Joanne Dieleman answered the phone at Aid to Women one hot summer day two years ago, a woman asked to speak to "the lady with the Dutch accent." A weary Joanne replied, "That's me." Then, intuitively, the woman said, "Well, maybe you're having a bad day. I want to show you something to make you feel better." In town from Regina [...]
Show the Truth went to "the hearts of darkness" when a recent tour took it to the major abortuaries of Toronto. The August 9-13 engagement visited the Morgentaler, Scott and Cabbagetown abortuaries, as well as the lesser-known ones of Zarifi Markovic in north Toronto and Katherine Chu in Scarborough. As expected, the sight of large, graphic signs depicting aborted preborn humans did [...]
When I think of Gilles Grondin, it's the word "faith" that most readily comes to mind - his strong faith in God, in Jesus and in Christian principles of morality. What concerned Gilles above all was the salvation of his soul and the souls of his family members. To this end, he prayed every day. His dedication to the pro-life cause was [...]
One of the towering figures on not only the Canadian, but also the international, pro-life scenes has died at the age of 78. Gilles Grondin passed away suddenly in Montreal on August 5. At the time of his death, he was as active as ever for the cause, looking forward to attending a pro-life strategy meeting in Mississauga, Ont. this month. In [...]
On Sunday, Oct. 3, pro-lifers from all denominations across the country will once again participate in the annual international Life Chain. Last year, approximately 18,000 people were involved in Life Chain at hundreds of locations in Canada. Hundreds of housands more also joined in this peaceful demonstration across the United States. The website for Life Chain defines the mission as "a peaceful [...]
Show the Truth completed a successful presentation at an intersection in Brooklin, Ont. despite an altercation caused by two angry passersby on July 12. Rosemary Connell, Show the Truth president, explained that the problem began when an irate woman tore apart two Show the Truth signs and another man threatened to do so as well. When Show the Truth personnel called the [...]
Borowski: the paradox of martyrdom Borowski: A Canadian Paradox by Lianne Laurence, (Interim Publishing, 415 pages, $24.95 softcover, $39.95 hardcover) Review by Stephen Tardiff The Interim The true legacy of a movement that defends life is not the victories it enjoys, but the heroes it employs. Joe Borowski, who lived on a farm and worked in a mine, took up the extraordinary [...]