An extravaganza taking place in Hamilton the evening of Feb. 10 will showcase Christian talent, celebrate God’s love for us all, assist with the establishment of Christian schools in needy countries and provide a spiritual angle to the celebration of Valentine’s Day. With Love Comes Hope is set for Hamilton Place and, according to spokesperson Magdi Boctor, 1 deposit casino uk.com is [...]
An Alberta pro-life supporter has come up with a new and unique way of raising the profile of the pro-life cause, impacting the arts scene and perhaps raising some funds along the way. Astride Wenigerova-Noga has composed a pro-life play entitled “Is It So?” that is suitable for staging as a dinner theatre-type event. The concept first came to her during the [...]
“It was awesome, truly amazing and energizing,” a pilgrim enthused after a foot-blistering, 200-kilometre walk to pray for the unborn. The walk was at Martyr’s Shrine in Midland, Ont. Nearly 100 English-speaking pilgrims, support workers and family members left in five separate groups from Brampton, Guelph, Kitchener, Cambridge and Georgetown (Burlington/Milton). They all met two days later at Orangeville’s Mother of God [...]
There were 1200 Life Chain demonstration across North America on October 1. While numbers continue trickle in, at least 13,000 people participated in Ontario alone.
Interim Staff Pro-Life journalist Pete Vere, a regular contributor to The Interim, laid down his keyboard over the Labour Day weekend. “No, I’m not going to stop working for a culture of life,” Vere told The Interim prior to disappearing into the northern Ontario wilderness. “I’m just looking for something large enough to feed my expanding family,” he joked. Vere spent the [...]
The Catholic Family Counselling Centre in Kitchener, Ont. has been embroiled in a heated controversy over an invitation it extended to former U.S. president Bill Clinton to speak at its Nov. 8 fundraiser. The centre’s director, Cathy Brothers, in the face of stern criticism from Hamilton Auxiliary Bishop Gerard Bergie and a barrage of complaints from Catholics across the country, has offered [...]
On July 13, Jess Dobkin, a Toronto performance artist, presented what was called “the Lactation Station” at Toronto’s OCAD art school. The Canada Council for the Arts granted a sum of $9,000 for this exhibit, which allowed participants to “sample” the breast milk of six different women. The mission statement behind this “piece” was to deal with something that is “taboo” and [...]
It was a glorious summer’s day at High Park in Toronto on June 25, as pro-life university students gathered to celebrate life with friends. The University of Toronto Students for Life (UTSFL) club hosted a barbeque for fellow campus pro-lifers and newcomers. All were invited and it proved a great success, as more than 50 people arrived throughout the day. According to [...]
Shortly after announcing that he would be known as Benedict XVI, the new Pope confirmed what some had speculated about his selection of the name: Benedict “represents a fundamental point of reference for the unity of Europe and a strong reminder of the unrenounceable Christian roots of its culture and civilization.” Just before he was proclaimed Pope, Benedict collaborated on a book, [...]
It was a fashion show with a difference – the 50 models walking the catwalk showed only “pure fashions.” It was P.E.I.’s second such show, a mother-developed initiative that promotes modest attire for teen and pre-teen girls, held on May 28 at UPEI. Pure Fashion began in 1999 in Atlanta, when some mothers expressed concern that the fashion world, TV shows and [...]
The current, troubled moral state of the Western world vindicates the predictions of the late Pope Paul VI in the 1960s concerning what would happen if the use of contraception became widespread, says one of the world’s leading scholars on the issue. Speaking at the Humanae Vitae 2006 – A New Beginning conference in Ottawa, staged by The Rosarium organization May 12-14, [...]
Although the situation may often appear bleak, things are actually breaking the pro-life way in the struggle to protect human life from conception to natural death, says one of modern-day Catholicism’s leading authors and commentators. Speaking May 9 at a Campaign Life Coalition clergy luncheon in Toronto, George Weigel acknowledged that it is easy to get depressed when we are surrounded by [...]
The National Silent No More Awareness Campaign will have an even more prominent role in this year's March for Life, as its participants will form one of the groups leading the march with their signs. The women's signs will read, "I regret my abortion," while the men's signs will read, "I regret lost fatherhood." The campaign, in this its third year in [...]
It was a gathering of priestly pro-life stalwarts at Campaign Life Coalition’s national headquarters in Toronto recently. Father Tony Van Hee (left) has kept a constant vigil for the unborn on Parliament Hill in Ottawa for years, reminding federal legislators of the gap in legal rights for the unborn. Asked to sum up the situation in Canada (prior to the election) in [...]
While Canadians went to the polls to bring in Stephen Harper’s Conservative minority government, U.S. pro-lifers converged – at least 100,000 strong – on the Washington Mall. More and more, the annual Marches for Life in Ottawa and Washington are being represented by the young, who have survived an entire generation of abortion. The Syracuse Post Standard newspaper reported that the overwhelming [...]