Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
Deborah Waters Gyapong has been a journalist and novelist for more than 20 years. She has worked in print, radio and television, including 12 years as a producer for CBC TV's news and current affairs programming. She currently covers religion and politics primarily for Catholic and Evangelical newspapers.
March for Life opens doors to wide pro-life spectrum
OTTAWA - Campaign Life Coalition has paved the way for every organization fighting for the unborn to take part in this yearƵapp National March for Life May 12.
OTTAWA - Faith communities must stay hopeful and engaged to ensure governments live up to climate change commitments, says the leader of the United Church of CanadaƵapp delegation to COP21.
OTTAWA - ItƵapp been five years since the assassination of Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, but his religious freedom legacy lives on in Canada and around the world.
Alliance issues Vulnerable Persons' Standard to advise government on physician-assisted death
OTTAWA - A broad alliance of Catholic and other organizations opposed to assisted suicide is urging that upcoming legislation provide explicit protections for disabled and other vulnerable people including a review by a judge or independent authority prior to the killing of any patient.
OTTAWA - A Saskatchewan MP has tabled a bill in the House of Commons aimed at deterring “senseless assaults” on pregnant women in Canada.
Matching funds for Syrian relief ending
OTTAWA - As peace continues to elude wartorn Syria, Canadian Catholics are being asked to remain in solidarity with those ravaged by the conflict.
Assisted death report threatens existence of faith-based health care
OTTAWA - Should the federal government accept the recommendations of its special committee on assisted death, it will threaten the existence of CanadaƵapp faith-based health care institutions, says the Coalition for HealthCARE.
Physician-assisted death committee recommendations go far beyond Carter
OTTAWA - The special Parliamentary committee on physician-assisted dying recommended Feb. 25 euthanasia for the mentally ill and opened the way for euthanasia of consenting minors.
Liberals backtrack on whipped vote for assisted dying
OTTAWA - In the face of political and public criticism, a Liberal directive that would have forced its MPs to vote the party line on an upcoming assisted-dying bill has been put on hold.
Conscience can’t trump patients’ rights
OTTAWA - The conscience rights of doctors and health care workers should not be allowed to interfere with a patientƵapp “right” to a medically assisted death, claimed a university professor from the faculties of law and medicine at Dalhousie University.