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{mosimage}OTTAWA - More than 50 organizations, labour unions and groups have lined up against the Unborn Victims of Crime Act that passed second reading in the House of Commons March 5.

{mosimage}TORONTO - After a year of sub-par results the Jantzi Social Index is once again leading the band among Canadian stock indexes.

{mosimage}TORONTO - The first Catholic project by the Canada Foodgrains Bank will direct $500,000 to Zambian farmers who lost their crops to flooding in December and January.

{mosimage}TORONTO - Protesters lined the street outside Toronto������Ƶapp King Edward Hotel May 20, and dominated the microphones inside ������Ƶapp annual general meeting, putting the world������Ƶapp second largest gold producer on the defensive over its human rights and environmental record in Guatemala and Honduras.

{mosimage}OTTAWA - has asked the House of Commons justice committee to hold televised hearings on the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the law that governs it.

{mosimage}OTTAWA - The pro-life movement is the civil rights movement of today. That was the message of the 11th annual National March for Life that drew 7,800 to Parliament Hill May 8.

“We now treat unborn babies like blacks were treated,” Alveda King, the daughter of civil rights activist Rev. A.D. King and niece of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. told a news conference sponsored by the Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus.

{mosimage}TORONTO - Fr. Thomas Lynch, a well-known pro-life advocate in Canada, has been appointed national director for Priests for Life Canada, the organization announced May 8.

{mosimage}TORONTO - The complaints of peasants and indigenous people in Central America have reached the Toronto Stock Exchange and pushed off a socially responsible stock index that helps determine at least $33 million in mutual fund investment.

OTTAWA - When Fr. Bryan Bayda got the phone call from the apostolic nuncio (papal ambassador to Canada) telling him that Pope Benedict XVI had appointed him bishop of the , he experienced shock and disbelief.

{mosimage}OTTAWA - The has ordered an evangelical Christian charity to rescind its morality code and require employees to undergo anti-discrimination training.