B.C. breaks records when it comes to religion and the lack thereof Metro Vancouver and the rest of B.C. break a lot of records when it comes to religion and the lack thereof. The West Coast is a place of extremes in regards to Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and the religiously unaffiliated, according to a major …
Praying under protocol: B.C. faith leaders on welcoming worshippers back to services safely Social Sharing. Praying during a pandemic is not without challenges. After months of keeping the faith alive at home, many British Columbians are returning to their places of worship for the first time since March, when leaders were forced to close the doors on their …
Ten years ago my mom underwent aggressive chemotherapy and radiation. The treatment prolonged her life, so I’m grateful she withstood it. But I’ll never be able to shake the awful memories from the days she was most in agony. The sound of her groans haunt me. In recent weeks, when footage of the killing of …
Courtesy: CBC news A Merritt, B.C., man is set to appear in a Kamloops courtroom to face four counts of arson. Kamloops RCMP Const. Tracy Dunsmore says the 37-year-old man was arrested Thursday. Suspicious fires were set in four churches in the Merritt area earlier this month. One of the fires destroyed the nearly 150-year-old …
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Courtesy: Sun City Chinese Christians in Vancouver. Metro Vancouver’s more than 100,000 Chinese Christians are creating a unique new arm of the global church as they have an increasingly stronger impact on this region of 2.1 million. Contrary to conventional wisdom about the kinds of religions followed by most people from Asia, there are far …
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Courtesy: Canadian Times The Country going on a downward trend. A baby in Canada was given a health card without a gender designation, supposedly making it the world’s first gender-free baby. U.S. evangelist Franklin Graham has denounced as “nonsense” the parent’s argument that it’s a human rights violation to assign a sex to the child. …
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Courtesy: ARPA YOUR MLA TO OPPOSE MOTION 33’S ENDORSEMENT OF SOGI 123 SOGI 123 which deals with how sexual orientation and gender identity are taught in British Columbia classrooms is couched as an anti-bullying initiative, but it is far more. It teaches a humanist understanding of sexuality as a subjective identity, divorced from biology, determined …
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Courtesy: Global News In the far north of British Columbia, hundreds of kilometres from any city, sits a ghost town less than 25 years old. It’s estimated that around 5,000 people lived in Cassiar at one point in its 40-year history. But if you can find the beaten road that leads to the abandoned site …
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Courtesy: The Globe and Mail Anglican Church facing the threat of extinction. The Anglican Church in Canada – once as powerful in the nation’s secular life as it was in its soul – may be only a generation away from extinction, says a just-published assessment of the church’s future. The report, prepared for the Anglican …
Courtesy: CBC NEWS A Birth of a Church In late 2009, Village Church was born in Surrey when Mark Clark preached to 16 people who were gathered in his house. Today, Clark’s sermons are heard by thousands every Sunday in Surrey and Langley and he is the lead pastor of one of the fastest growing …
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