By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – The ongoing COVID pandemic did not deter organizers of the national March for Life from returning to an in-person event May 13, 2021. Hundreds of…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News The spring break-up on the Mackenzie and Liard rivers has caused historic and devastating levels of flooding in the Northwest Territories, including several communities in the Roman Catholic…
By Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) staff Catholic Near East Welfare Association has launched an emergency campaign to encourage Canadians to help the most vulnerable persons in India who are suffering from the alarming…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [Toronto – Canadian Catholic News] – After U.S. President Joe Biden’s surprise turnaround in favour of temporarily suspending patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines, Church leaders are redoubling their lobbying,…
Critics of the “secularism law” agree that the April court ruling must be appealed By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – Two of the organizations trying to have Quebec’s controversial secularism law Bill…
Development and Peace launches emergency fundraising campaign in response to the dire situation across the Indian sub-continent By Minaz Kerawala, Communications, Development and Peace/Caritas Canada The wailing sirens of ambulances rushing to overfull hospitals; the…
The Catholic bishops of Canada have launched a national, bilingual service for reporting situations of sexual abuse either committed or covered up by a bishop. (CCN article updated May 11) By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News…
Online events are also part of the annual pro-life march By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – The theme of this year’s March For Life in Canada is “You are Not Alone”. That…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – Most critics of the federal government’s effort to ban conversion therapy say that they do not doubt that the federal government and supporters of Bill C-6…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [Toronto – Canadian Catholic News] – Quebec’s Catholic bishops don’t just want a recovery, they want change. The Quebec Assembly of Catholic Bishops’ annual May Day message calls for a…