Captain Harold Ristau, an army chaplain, accompanies troops on missions. PHOTO: COURTESY HAROLD RISTAU
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Millenium Development Goals. The halftime bell has already rung in a fight picked nine years ago between 189 nations and some of humankind’s most pitiless foes: extreme hunger, AIDS, malaria, child mortality, unsafe drinking water and the devastating effects of climate change. Can Christians still help win this fight?
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Christian school lays down the law on cyber bullying
More Catholics voting Conservative
Jesuit priests and prison parolees share Furby St. home
Claiborne, Campolo invite youth to resist power structures
Winnipegger recruited to design verticopter
ST-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, QC--Saint Jean Garrison is the congregation for Albert Harper, the Baptist civilian chaplain for the Canadian Forces base. When he is not making the 300 km trek to his family every weekend, he is enjoying being the “Padre,” or “father” for his troops who are convinced that he has a direct line with God.
Like many of his colleagues, he takes his responsibilities as seriously as he promised at his swearing-in ceremony to be a loyal minister and a support to all who need help. “I can have an impact on the lives of recruits,” he says.
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CALGARY, AB--If we don’t give this tar baby a critical glance before shaking its hand, we may find ourselves more stuck than Brer Rabbit.
That’s what John Hiemstra, a politics professor at The King’s University College believes after spending a year researching the effects of the most ambitious economic boom in Canada’s history—the Alberta tar sands.
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WHEATON, IL--North America’s orthodox Anglicans are negotiating the details of a prospective new province to serve 100,000 parishioners in Canada and the United States.
“We are breaking new ground,” says Bishop Don Harvey, moderator of the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC), one of 10 groups that met last month in Illinois to unveil and approve a draft constitution for the new Anglican Church in North America.
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