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WINNIPEG, MB—City Hall has given Youth for Christ (YFC) the green light to build a 50,000-square-foot youth centre in Winnipeg’s inner city. But before construction begins, the organization has something else to build: community relationships. A heated debate at City…Read More→
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Earthquakes may qualify as acts of God. But don’t try blaming the Almighty for the calamity gripping Haiti right now if you’re talking to Glenn Smith. The director of Christian Direction in Montreal holds an honorary doctorate from Haiti’s private…Read More→
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OTTAWA, ON—Evangelical Christians in Canada have the government’s ear, says Robyn Bright. And with Canada poised to host the Olympic Games and two world summits, this year is an opportunity like none other to speak up about global poverty. Bright…Read More→
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI—Only two of the 400 people World Vision employs in Haiti still have homes that are standing. “They’ve all been demolished,” said World Vision president Dave Toycen in a live conference call from Haitian capital Port-au-Prince yesterday. “It’s a…Read More→
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WINNIPEG, MB—One of Winnipeg’s largest evangelical churches is about to get a $10 million facelift. Until now the 150,000 square-foot brick building that houses Grant Memorial Baptist Church and Linden Christian School has been keeping a low profile near the…Read More→
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TORONTO, ON—Violated women in Congo, families whose members have been kidnapped in Indonesia, churches working for peace in Sudan—these are a few of the groups left high and dry after the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) abruptly terminated funding to…Read More→
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OTTAWA, ON—Ian Thomson will be in Copenhagen, Denmark when the bells begin to ring. Starting in the South Pacific on December 13, a clanging of bells will circle the globe as churches chime into the global conversation on climate change….Read More→
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WINNIPEG, MB—Two decades in the political limelight comes at a cost. Sixteen years after stepping down from a long and turbulent political career—during which he represented Manitoba’s Provencher riding in Parliament and held three separate cabinet posts—Jake Epp still hasn’t…Read More→
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WINNIPEG, MB—One man had a toothache so excruciating he phoned an ambulance. It may sound like an overreaction, says Kari Enns, director of a health centre for the poor and homeless in Winnipeg, but not for someone who can’t afford…Read More→
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LONDON, ON—About 350,000 Canadians flipped open their October 5 issue of Maclean’s magazine to learn that Jesus is the answer. To poverty. Compassion Canada has never been in the closet about its evangelical focus, but the growing child sponsorship agency…Read More→