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News/Toronto-GTA

For Vanessa Harris her Grade 8 class trip to the Holocaust Museum in Toronto was all about trying to understand the incomprehensible.

Caritas telethon airs on April 29

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TORONTO - Caritas is hosting its 13th annual telethon on April 29. The telethon will be aired on the TLN Telelatino Television Network.

Jantzi index keeps up with the big boys

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TORONTO - The social responsibility and environmental sustainability driven Jantzi Social Index continues to run neck-and-neck with conventional stock market indexes despite its underexposure in the energy sector.

Catalyst rewarded for environmental sensibility

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TORONTO - The guys who control the mill jobs in several small towns on Vancouver Island, who cut down swaths of rainforest to make paper for phone books and catalogues and who deal in pulp for paper mills up and down the west coast of North America are now officially good guys of CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp forest products industry.

MP seeks to honour John Paul II

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TORONTO - A member of OntarioöÏÓãÊÓƵapp provincial legislature wants the province to recognize April 2 as Pope John Paul II Day. On that very day, Conservative MPP Frank Klees planned to introduce into the legislature a private memberöÏÓãÊÓƵapp bill to commemorate the day the late pope died two years ago.

Merton workshop comes to town

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TORONTO - The Thomas Merton Society of Canada is offering an opportunity to get to know the 20th centuryöÏÓãÊÓƵapp most famous American monk.

Interfaith prayer for Afghan peace

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TORONTO - A peace prayer will unite Christians of every stripe at St. James Anglican Cathedral in downtown Toronto April 22 at 4:30 p.m.

Preparing the way for Little italy procession

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TORONTO - After hosting Little ItalyöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Good Friday procession for 45 years, St. Francis of Assisi parish has got the planning and preparation down to a science. 

Hate crime charge follows attack

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TORONTO - An attack on a Jewish community centre in midtown Toronto is part of a continuing pattern that needs to be addressed, said Fr. Damian MacPherson, the archdiocese of TorontoöÏÓãÊÓƵapp interfaith and ecumenical affairs officer.

Catholics For Peace join anti-war rally

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TORONTO - Ten Catholics For Peace were among a couple thousand protesters who marked the fourth anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq with a St. PatricköÏÓãÊÓƵapp Day rally across the street from the U.S. consulate and a march through downtown Toronto converging on the Peace Garden in Nathan Phillips Square.

Toronto interfaith council launched

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TORONTO - From Anglican to Zoroastrian, 45 faith communities came together to put the stamp of faith on TorontoöÏÓãÊÓƵapp immense diversity at the inaugural breakfast meeting of the Toronto Area Interfaith Council March 20.