To some people, Canada seems like the land of American civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr.’s dreams. But a group of race relations activists in Ottawa contend that this belies the truth, and that…
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Govt Urged to Improve Services for Non-Christian Inmates
Religion can be a key element in the rehabilitation of inmates. However, for minorities, changes to prison chaplaincy services during the Conservative government made following their faith at federal prisons a challenge. For this reason…
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Conservatism Persists in Chinese Canadian Churches
Political discourse often speaks to the social conservatism of immigrant groups. However, the results of the recent federal elections show that we need a better understanding of how immigrant groups are mobilized and integrated into formal spheres…
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First Impressions of a ‘Christian Country’
It was in September 2014, a month before our landing in Canada, when a fellow, Pakistani-born Canadian made a long-distance call to my husband suggesting that we carry a baptism certificate from a Roman Catholic…
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“If you are a guest in my home, there are certain rules of courtesy”
Interfaith dialogue, as we have known it, that peaceful, sanguine and polite discourse, is dead.Yes, dead.The day of treating everyone like equals with equal truths in the marketplace of ideas is… over.The day of fascination…
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