Canada’s immigrants arrive from countries torn by religion
When it comes to government clampdowns on Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus or atheists, Canadians enjoy relative freedom. But for millions of immigrants to Canada. old-country memories are...
View ArticleForty million Christians voted for Obama
U.S. Christians are often all stereotyped as politically conservative. That’s in part because the aggressive Religious Right tends to get most media attention. And it is true that white evangelicals...
View ArticleCatholic Church losing 1 out of 3. Protestants gain
The Catholic church is losing huge numbers of members. If ex-Catholics were their own denomination, they would make up the third largest denomination in the United States, according to The National...
View ArticleLiberal Protestantism ‘eclipsed by own success’
Robert Bellah says liberal Protestantism has infiltrated and transformed mainstream secular humanist culture, which is a major reason its churches are in gradual decline. That was one of the last...
View ArticleLatin America, favelas, suffering and new hope
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — After I signed up for a trip into Latin America’s largest favela, I became nervous. Favelas, a word normally translated as slums, have a history of chaos, violence, despair...
View ArticleBook shines light on evangelical activism in Ottawa
I must confess I would not want to be a research subject of Marci McDonald, the veteran Canadian journalist. As a former foreign correspondent for Maclean’s and senior writer for U.S. News and World...
View ArticleMetro’s 70,000 ethnic Koreans: Most turn to fervent, conservative Christianity
The young ethnic Koreans squeezed into a hall at Grace Community Church in Surrey are standing and singing along with a Christian rock group, with many swaying and waving their arms. “Pull me a little...
View ArticleTWU faculty tense over gays, donors and academic freedom
A solid portion of Trinity Western University’s faculty are said to be “embarrassed” by the media coverage the evangelical school is receiving over its ban on same-sex relationships. Some faculty...
View ArticleStephen Harper takes calculated risk citing: "My Christ."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper took the political risk of making a rare public reference to his evangelical Christian beliefs while criticizing an American pastor’s plans to burn 200 copies of The Koran...
View ArticleVideo: Canadian aboriginals becoming Christian clergy despite...
Despite a misconception among urban Canadians that aboriginals hate Roman Catholic and Protestant denominations, Christianity is integral to the spiritual life of two of three of the country’s 1.4...
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