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Below you'll find many of our most recent posts, including selected articles from Faith Today. You can also select one of the options in the boxes to the top left of your screen to jump to other types of articles not included in the list below (e.g., Dispatches from Brian, EFC Updates, media releases, official statements, outgoing letters, research, etc.).

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Sanctity of Life
Religious Freedom
Care for the Vulnerable
11 June 2019

Three questions on the Ontario medical referrals decision

Lawyer Derek Ross explains the Ontario appeal court decision about doctors wanting to opt out of medically assisted dying.

TagsAssembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario, Christian Legal Fellowship, Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada, medical assistance in dying, Three questions series
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Religious Freedom
Sanctity of Life
Care for the Vulnerable
14 December 2018

Three questions on the forced medical referrals case

Lawyer Derek Ross explains a case that challenges the unusual Ontario policy preventing doctors from opting out of medically assisted dying referrals.

TagsAssembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario, Christian Legal Fellowship, Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada, medical assistance in dying, Three questions series
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Church & Mission
04 December 2018

Aid agencies look back and ahead: Successes and challenges of 2018 and beyond

Two of the key situations for aid agencies in 2018 have involved refugees – the Rohingya, a group who fled by the hundreds of thousands from Myanmar to Bangladesh, and also refugees from Syria...

TagsCanadian Foodgrains Bank, Compassion Canada, Emergency Relief and Development Overseas, Faith Today, Mennonite Central Committee, Rohingya, Syria, World Renew, World Vision
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Religious Freedom
Care for the Vulnerable
Sanctity of Life
01 February 2018

Ontario forced referrals case - CMDS leader Larry Worthen responds

An Ontario court decided Jan. 31 that doctors can be forced to refer patients who ask for euthanasia or other procedures that go against the doctor's conscience. The head of the Christian Medical...

TagsAssembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario, Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada, Conscience, Larry Worthen
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