Articles Tagged ‘Pro-Life Personalities’
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Written on 7 Sep, 2018 at 15:11 in
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Arianne Cayao On Sunday, Sept. 30th, tens of thousands of people across Canada will participate in or witness the Canadian pro-life movement’s LifeChain event at approximately 200 locations. Some Life Chains will be held Oct. 7 or 13; double-check with your local pro-life group for details.
LifeChain is a North American pro-life event that takes place annually, with a primary focus on praying for an end to abortion. For this one hour of witness, participants are asked to abide by the LifeChain Code ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Jul, 2018 at 18:59 in
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Interim Staff Eric McLuhan was one of The Interim's first columnists
Eric McLuhan, son of the famous Marshall McLuhan, was a renowned scholar of media in his own right, and used his expertise to help the pro-life cause. Eric McLuhan, a former columnist for The Interimand popular pro-life speaker, passed away May 18 in Bogota, Colombia, where he had just delivered the inaugural speech ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Jul, 2018 at 18:56 in
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Eric McLuhan Human life, with which “pro-life” is primarily concerned, has perhaps forty or four hundred dimensions. I will mention four only. We have physical life – that in common with animals and vegetables, which forms we choose to imitate from time to time. We have social life – that also in common with animals, fish, birds, insects and perhaps dozens of other things (but let us draw the line short of plants: we must make some distinctions, somewhere). We have mental ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Jul, 2018 at 18:50 in
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Interim Staff Dick Cochrane was a Spitfire pilot, lounge singer, and founder of Aid to Women.
Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes recalls that his friend Richmond (Dick) Cochrane lived an extraordinary and varied life that began in India in 1925 and ended in Canada 92 years later with stops as a Spitfire pilot in the India and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Jul, 2018 at 18:42 in
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Mary Ellen Douglas Kingston pro-life activist Lidwien Grafe talks to Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes
After a lengthy battle with cancer, Lidwien Grafe, 81, died June 13 at Providence Care Hospital in Kingston.
I first met Lidwien in 1971 when we attended an organizational meeting to discuss the killing of unborn children following the passing of the Omnibus Bill ... (Continue reading)
First person arrested under Ontario’s bubble zone law dies
Cy Winter, the first Ontarian charged under the province's new bubble zone law, passed away.
Cyril Winter, 70, passed away March 9 at the Ottawa Heart Center following complications from stenting surgery to fix several coronary arteries. Hours before he passed away, Winter wrote on Facebook: ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Jan, 2018 at 9:28 in
Announcements, Features, Pro-Life, Profiles, Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns Paul Broughton, owner of LifeCycle Books.
At its national pro-life conference in Ottawa in November, LifeCanada president Peter Ryan recognized Paul Broughton as a “witness to life,” an “unsung hero” of the pro-life movement. Ryan said the founder of the Toronto-based LifeCycle Books “has served our movement quietly but so capably, diligently, and professionally.”
Broughton grew up in Toronto and began his pro-life activism at the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Dec, 2017 at 9:47 in
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Gerry Brosso Cannon Robert Greene, who fought in World War II said those who perished in the war did not die so Canadians could lose their democratic freedom
Banker, soldier, clergyman, politician, husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend. Canon Robert Greene of Calgary wore all these hats ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Dec, 2017 at 10:26 in
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Campaign Life Coalition brought London-based African pro-life leader Obianuju (Uju) Ekeocha to Canada from Nov. 4-10 to address various meetings in Ottawa and Toronto.
Uju Ekeocha with Conservative MPs Harold Albrecht and David Anderson at a parliamentary prayer breakfast in Ottawa.
On Nov. 7, she attended a parliamentary prayer breakfast hosted by Conservative MP David ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2017 at 8:48 in
Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff David Mainse
On Sept. 25, Rev. David Mainse passed away at the age of 81 following a five-year battle with leukemia. Mainse was the founder of Crossroads Christian Communications and longtime host of Canada’s longest running daily television program, “100 Huntley Street.”
100 Huntley Street had its origins as a 15-minute, weekly show on a Pembroke TV station in 1962 and his local media ministry grew into an international multimedia ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Nov, 2017 at 8:07 in
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Interim Staff As Mother Teresa said on Parliament Hill in 1988, “The beautiful thing about the Pro-life movement is that its ordinary people doing extraordinary things for God.”
In this the 150th anniversary of the founding of Canada, numerous publications have issued their own lists of prominent Canadians. Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign Life Coalition offers this partial list of some of the outstanding pro-life people he has met from across the country - living and deceased. This is by no means ... (Continue reading)
More than 34,612 emails and 1,078 letters of support were sent to Ontario Court Justice Rick Libman in support of Mary Wagner. We excerpt some of the communications below. For the story about the letters and Wagner's sentences, see 'Outpouring of support for Wagner' HERE.
I wholeheartedly support the efforts of Ms. Mary Wagner to protect the rights of unborn children – to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Sep, 2017 at 9:29 in
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Carolyn Cole
Over the years Cole was involved with Campaign Life Coalition, Show the Truth, LifeChain, the Windsor Essex Right to Life Association, Windsor’s Walk for Life, and the National March for Life in Ottawa. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she served as subscription manager for The Interim.
In 1991, she was among 19 arrested for praying outside the Morgentaler abortuary. The 19 were found guilty of obstructing ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Sep, 2017 at 18:11 in
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Interim Staff More than 11,000 emails and 200 letters of support for Mary Wagner were sent to Campaign Life Coalition's office.
On August 15, Ontario Court of Justice judge Eric N. Libman found Mary Wagner, 43, guilty of mischief and breach of probation. She was convicted on charges arising from her Dec. 12, 2016, arrest at the Bloor West Village Women’s Clinic, where she had tried to persuade women to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Jul, 2017 at 9:42 in
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Robert Walley (right) receives the Adam Exner Award from the Catholic Civil Rights League, represented by board members (front from left ) Charles Lewis, Alexander MacDonald, and Tanya Granic, and CCRL president Phil Horgan (back left and executive director Christian Elia (back right).
Former religious freedom ambassador discusses the public square
The Catholic ... (Continue reading)
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