The Catholic Register Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:08:37 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Churches again demand Canada join nuclear treaty /item/32645-churches-again-demand-canada-join-nuclear-treaty /item/32645-churches-again-demand-canada-join-nuclear-treaty

The Canadian Council of Churches has again called on Canada to sign and ratify the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as the treaty became officially part of international law on Jan. 22.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:27:36 -0500
75 years pursuing peace /item/30355-75-years-pursuing-peace /item/30355-75-years-pursuing-peace

The Canadian Council of Churches started in the middle of a war and itƵapp still trying to make peace.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Sat, 28 Sep 2019 07:00:00 -0400
Trudeau needs to sign UN nuclear treaty, says Canadian Council of Churches /home/international/item/28834-trudeau-needs-to-sign-un-nuclear-treaty-says-canadian-council-of-churches /home/international/item/28834-trudeau-needs-to-sign-un-nuclear-treaty-says-canadian-council-of-churches

Leaders of the 26 churches who represent more than 85 per cent of CanadaƵapp Christians are demanding a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss nuclear arms policy.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) International Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:11:41 -0500
Lifetime ecumenical award boosts two young scholars' careers /item/24346-lifetime-ecumenical-award-boosts-two-young-scholars-careers /item/24346-lifetime-ecumenical-award-boosts-two-young-scholars-careers

A lifetime of ecumenical commitment has been transposed onto a couple of younger commitments to ecumenism.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Wed, 15 Feb 2017 05:00:00 -0500
CanadaƵapp churches ponder court action over refugee pact /item/24286-canada-s-churches-ponder-court-action-over-refugee-pact /item/24286-canada-s-churches-ponder-court-action-over-refugee-pact

As the storm over the fate of refugees intensifies in the United States, CanadaƵapp churches are deliberating whether or not to take the federal government to court to pull Canada out of its Safe Third Country Agreement with the U.S.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:55:00 -0500
Canadian churches seek more than military response in Iraq, Syria /home/international/item/20017-canadian-churches-seek-more-than-military-response-in-iraq-syria /home/international/item/20017-canadian-churches-seek-more-than-military-response-in-iraq-syria

OTTAWA - The Canadian Council of Churches in an open letter to Prime Minister Harper has urging a broader response to the crisis in Iraq and Syria than military intervention.

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ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) International Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:30:00 -0400
Ploughshares will remain voice for peace /item/19348-ploughshares-will-remain-voice-for-peace /item/19348-ploughshares-will-remain-voice-for-peace

Project Ploughshares will not surrender.

Despite the loss of significant government contracts and grants, the 38-year-old organization is launching a new strategic plan, searching for a new executive director and settling into a new home in Waterloo, Ont.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:00:00 -0500
Breaking down Christian barriers /item/19263-breaking-down-christian-barriers /item/19263-breaking-down-christian-barriers

MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - Young ecumenist Anupama Ranawana has strengthened her faith through learning about other Christian denominations. 

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Youth Speak News Fri, 28 Nov 2014 07:59:59 -0500
‘Speak boldly to the government’: Canadian Council of Churches president /item/14598-%E2%80%98speak-boldly-to-the-government%E2%80%99-canadian-council-of-churches-president /item/14598-%E2%80%98speak-boldly-to-the-government%E2%80%99-canadian-council-of-churches-president

The Canadian Council of Churches has questions and it has plans. The questions are for the government and its plans are for CanadaƵapp Christians.

As the CCC executive committee elected new officers, including the first Salvation Army president in the CouncilƵapp 68-year history, it also trekked to Parliament Hill to ask politicians and bureaucrats about environmental policy and plans for an Office of Religious Freedom within the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

“We went there knowing there are issues on the horizon that we would like to ask questions about and simply learn more about,” said CCC general secretary Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Wed, 30 May 2012 11:08:05 -0400
Canadian bishops pull out of interfaith group /item/14064-canadian-bishops-pull-out-of-interfaith-group /item/14064-canadian-bishops-pull-out-of-interfaith-group

CanadaƵapp Catholic bishops are pulling out of a national interfaith dialogue they helped establish.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has informed the Canadian Council of Churches it will not participate in an ongoing interfaith conversation with representatives from major Christian churches and non-Christian faith bodies.

The CCCƵapp interfaith conversation began as the Interfaith Partnership in the run-up to the 2010 interfaith leaders’ summit in Winnipeg. That body was established to engage with world political leaders coming to Canada for the G8/G20 summit. Parallel faith leaders’ summits have been a feature of G8 meetings since 2005.

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ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:33:39 -0400