Safe haven for refugees
The Meera’s look like any other family at the ethnically diverse parish of St. Anthony of Padua in Brampton, Ontario. They warmly greet fellow parishioners as they arrive for Mass, as if they have...
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Coast to Coast: April 5 to April 12 , 2014
Here’s what’s happening across Canada this week: In Brampton, Ontario a Ukranian Catholic Church that was built with the help of parishioners, burned to the ground over the weekend. In Winnipeg, the...
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Coast to Coast: June 21 to 27, 2014
This is what has been happening across the country this week: In Ottawa, the government has made changes to the immigration rules for refugees and their families. Some say the changes could tear...
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New S+L Documentary tackles Syrian Refugee Crisis
It was not too long ago that we heard about the Syrian civil war every night on the news. As the original struggle of the Syrian people for greater liberty morphed into a violent tit-for-tat with...
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Director of JRS Syria: “We don’t have the right to do nothing”
The Director of Jesuit Refugee Services in Syria, Fr. Nawras Sammour, SJ visited Toronto last week to speak about the ongoing civil war and refugee crisis plaguing his home country. The event, which...
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Vatican Connections: April 24, 2015
Bigger than any financial scandal or bishops’ resignation was the story of hundreds of illegal migrants who drowned off the coast of Libya when their vessel capsized. Pope Francis used his Angelus...
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Behind Vatican Walls: Migrants
Pope Francis has returned to his regular schedule of activities at the Vatican. He held his first general audience this week after taking a one month break. His statement that divorced and remarried...
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Pope In US: Address to Children and Immigrant Families
On Friday afternoon, September 25, 2015, Pope Francis arrived at the Catholic School Our Lady, Queen of Angels in East Harlem to meet with children of the school as well as immigrant families from the...
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Coast to Coast: October 25 to October 31
Here are a few things that we’ve been reading about across the country this week: In Antigonish, NS a significant donation to St. Francis Xavier University means more people who would not normally...
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An integral response to the Paris attacks
The brutal attacks in Paris last Friday have sparked an impassioned conversation that has sadly, though necessarily, become part of our everyday lives, namely, what are we going to do about this? The...
View ArticleVatican celebrates Epiphany – Perspectives Daily
Tonight on Perspectives we take a look to the celebrations of the solemnity of Epiphany at the Vatican and we show you how Iraqi refugees celebrate Christmas
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Coast to Coast: February 7 to February 13
Here is some of what we’ve been reading this week across the country: In Ontario, Catholic Crosscultural Services is helping government-assisted refugees settle into their home In Saskatoon, an...
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Pope Francis’ Homily at Mass of the Lord’s Supper in Refugee Centre
Pope Francis celebrated the Missa in coena Domini – the Mass of the Lord’s Supper – on Thursday, leading the Church of Rome into the sacred Paschal Triduum that culminates in the great Easter Vigil in...
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CCCB Easter Message – Why Do You Look for the Living Among the Dead?
Why Do You Look for the Living Among the Dead? Easter message by Bishop Douglas Crosby, O.M.I. Bishop of Hamilton and President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops As Syrian refugees begin...
View ArticlePope Francis’ Prayer Intentions for November 2016
Join us in prayer for the intentions entrusted to us by Pope Francis. For November 2016, we join the Holy Father in praying for: Countries Receiving Refugees – That the countries which take in a great...
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Vatican Celebrates World Day of Migrants and Refugees
CNS photo/Yannis Behrakis, Reuters This coming Sunday, the World Day of Migrants and Refugees will be celebrated at the Vatican. In recent days Pope Francis’ message, entitled “Migrants minors,...
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Monarch Butterfly
Every November, the majestic migration of monarch butterflies flutters south from eastern Canada to central Mexico. These monarchs make their winter home in the tree tops of lush wild life reserves...
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Pope Francis’ Message for the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees
(CNS photo/Christinne Muschi, Reuters) Welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating migrants and refugees Dear brothers and sisters! “You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the...
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Pope Francis’ 2018 Migrants and Refugees Message
2018 Migrants and Refugees Message The Church has celebrated the World Day of Migrants and Refugees each year since 1914. This is an occasion for the Church and people of faith to reflect upon the...
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Deacon-structing Advent: This is Not Forever
Iraqi refugees line up to receive free food inside the Khazer camp on the outskirts of Irbil, Iraq, on June 29, 2014. (CNS photo/Stringer, Reuters) When I was in Jordan 8 years ago making Living...
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Six years ago today, Francis shook humanity’s conscience
A wreath of flowers thrown by Pope Francis floats in the Mediterranean Sea in the waters off the Italian island of Lampedusa. The pope threw a wreath to honour the memory of immigrants who have died...
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Pope Francis' homily for World Day of Migrants and Refugees
On September 29, 2019, in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis celebrated Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees (Photo: Vatican Media) Pope Francis’ homily for Holy Mass on the occasion of World Day...
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SLHour Special: Faith in a Time of Crisis: Refugees, Laudato Si’, and Lebanon
This week, on a special edition of the SLHour, we continue revisiting conversations during the pandemic. We speak with Dominique Godbout of Development and Peace-Caritas Canada about how COVID has...
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Pope Francis’ message for the 6th World Day of the Poor
Refugees line up for buses taking them to safe places outside Ukraine as they flee the ongoing Russian invasion, outside the main train station in Lviv, Ukraine, March 12, 2022. (CNS photo/Kai...
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Meeting with Internally Displaced Persons: Address of His Holiness
On Saturday, February 4, Pope Francis, with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, heard from and responded to internally displaced persons and representatives of...
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Pope Francis in Marseille: highlighting the suffering and hope of migrants
Pope Francis is heading to Marseille, France this weekend on his 44th Apostolic Journey abroad. Like his recent voyages to Kazakhstan, Bahrain, and Lisbon, he’ll be joining in an event that is already...
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