Catholic Voices on tour

Trip aims to shed light on assisted suicide

Caption: Peter Nation, head of Catholic Voices Canada. Agnieszka Krawczynski / The B.C. Catholic.

A non-profit educational group has embarked on a tour to help ordinary lay people speak their minds about physician-assisted suicide. For full story see The B.C. Catholic website.


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