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October 10, 2014

Families of missing Mexican students cling to faith as search continues

Margarito Ramirez shows a picture of his 20-year-old son, Carlos Ivan Ramirez Villarreal, Oct. 8, who was among the 43 students missing in Mexico's Guerrero state. The Sept. 26 disappearance of so many students in Guerrero states has sparked internationa l outrage and soul searching among many Mexicans.

TIXTLA, Mexico - Families of 43 students who "disappeared" in Guerrero state spend their time praying at the teacher training college the students attended. They plead for intervention from Our Lady of Guadalupe and pray the rosary in front of a makeshift St. James shrine, adorned with flowers placed in plastic Pepsi and mayonnaise bottles and set up in a common area adorned with murals of Che Guevara and other revolutionaries.

Published in International
October 3, 2014

College students flock to university campus for faith

The Newman Centre, a Catholic hub for students on the University of TorontoöÏÓãÊÓƵapp downtown campus, attracts students from local community colleges that don’t have their own chaplaincies.

College students in Toronto are turning to local universities for whatöÏÓãÊÓƵapp lacking on their own school campuses — Catholic chaplaincies. 

Published in Youth Speak News
May 8, 2014

Students go global to affect local change

An Intercordia student and her host father on the cunuco or plantation in the Dominican Republic.

Intercordia Canada is changing the world one heart at a time.

Published in Youth Speak News
May 1, 2014

Don’t marginalize kids by reading material

Avis Glaze

TORONTO - To break the chain of poverty marginalized students must never feel alienated by material used to teach literacy as that skill is the foundation for success, said Avis Glaze.

Published in Catholic Education
April 22, 2014

Dufferin-Peel board won't appeal ruling exempting student from religion class

John Kostoff, director of education

MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board will not appeal a court decision that allows parents to remove their non-Catholic children from religious classes and events.

Published in Catholic Education
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