Project Advance launches 2015 campaign

Leader wants five per cent increase in participation

Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, greets members of organizations that will receive Project Advance funds: Sig Stark (left) and Scott Barber of L'Arche, Chris McKinnon of Signal Hill Life Education Society, Maureen Fadum and (far right) Della Oberhoffner of Domestic Abuse Services, Sharon and Dan Dobin of Sancta Maria House. Alistair Burns / The B.C. Catholic.

For 30 years Carrie Tinson has diligently counselled her fellow parishioners to give to the annual fundraising campaign of the Archdiocese of Vancouver. For full story see The B.C. Catholic website.


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Pope speaks on ISIS killings

Coptic Orthodox priests in Amman, Jordan, remember 21 Egyptian Christians beheaded by Islamic State militants in Libya, where the Egyptian nationals had been working. CNS photo / Jamal Nasrallah, EPA.

Pope Francis voiced his distress at the news of a reported mass execution of Ethiopian Christians in Libya at the hands of ISIS, pleading that their deaths may not go ignored. For full story see The B.C. Catholic website.

New Evangelization Summit reaches 3,000

Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, SJ, of Ottawa, and Mission of the Redeemer Ministries co-founder Michael Dopp, who organized the event, shared a letter from Pope Francis extending his Apostolic Blessing. Deborah Gyapong (CCN).

The first New Evangelization Summit (NES) here April 24-25 reached more than 3,000 people across North America through top Catholic speakers who shared the urgent need to evangelize. For full story see The B.C. Catholic website.