October 2009 National Updates

October 1, 2009

Faiths unite in favour of organ donation
TORONTO -- In an age when medicine and religion seem to frequently collide, the three Abrahamic faiths and medical science have found common ground on organ donations.
Preview: Vancouver film festival touches on spiritual, religious themes
FESTIVAL season is upon us once again, and films that tackle themes near and dear to the heart of the Christian moviegoer are making the rounds from Toronto to Telluride.
National print news
• The Nova Scotia bishop and his resignation
• The Salvation Army's controversial anti-prostitution campaign
• The Christians protesting the Calgary Zoo's elephant statue
• more

October 8, 2009

Pro-family groups allowed to intervene in prostitution challenge
OTTAWA (CCN) -- An alliance of pro-family groups has been granted intervener status, in a challenge by sex trade activists of Canada's anti-prostitution laws.
Ministering to mentally ill difficult for many churches
AUTHOR and photographer Marja Bergen calls herself "just a foot soldier" seeking to always obey God's will.
OttawaWatch: The prince and the preacher
WHY WAS it, I wondered, that His Royal Highness, Prince El-Hassan, was sounding quite a bit like populist -- and popular -- California megachurch pastor Rick Warren?
Quick news
• More Grace on TV
• Christians kicking it
• No support
• more
National print news
• The Nova Scotia bishop accused of having child porn
• The transgendered teacher and the Catholic school board
• The Dalai Lama and his recent visit to Vancouver
• more

October 15, 2009

Euthanasia debate plays to nearly empty House
OTTAWA -- As the House of Commons debated euthanasia and assisted suicide October 2, Steve Passmore, a man disabled from birth, held a lonely vigil in front of the Peace Tower.
Comment: Jordanian government encourages interfaith cooperation
VISITING a cluster of sites sacred to Christendom was high on the agenda, a few weeks ago, for 19 American and Canadian faith-based journalists, guests of the Jordan Tourism Board.
OttawaWatch: Catching up
OUR RECENT Jordan experience has triggered some observations about the ways in which Christians are expected to communicate among ourselves and with other faith groups.
Quick news
• Rosebud has more than two stories
• It's only logical
• She's come a long way to deliver this lecture
• more
National print news
• Thanksgiving
• The Ten Commandments
• Nova Scotia bishop and child porn
• more

October 22, 2009

GG now official witness of Truth and Reconciliation
OTTAWA (CCN) -- A special ceremony at Rideau Hall October 15 marked the Governor General (GG) Michaelle Jean's participation as an honorary witness to the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
Plass and Soderholm crossing Canada for World Vision
TWO gifted Christian artists are offering Canadians a unique opportunity to support a good cause.
OttawaWatch: The truth, well told
JACK COWIE was a very good advertising sales person for the The Province, Vancouver's tabloid newspaper, back in the late '60s.
Quick news
• Abbeys for sale
• Roch on
• Chances they disagree: six to four
• more
National print news
• The Catholic offer to conservative Anglicans
• The prostitution laws
• The U.S. war resister and the United Church
• more

October 29, 2009

Anglican-Catholic announcement gets mixed reaction in Canada
The Primate of the Catholic Church in Canada welcomed news of a special canonical structure for Anglicans wishing to join the Church, but the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada predicted tensions will emerge.
35 and out of the church

THE under 35 generation is missing from the church, and World Vision is hosting a church leaders forum to explore what can be done about it.

OttawaWatch: There and here
THIS week, I hope to focus on some odds and ends from our recent Jordan trip, and take a run down a couple of collaboratively political domestic bunny trails.
National print news
• Bountiful and the polygamy court case
• Prostitution and sex trafficking
• Sex and society
• more

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