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The UNODC 2024 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons shows the number of victims identified in 2022 and beyond is 25-per-cent higher than pre-pandemic levels.

The CCCB officially announced on Dec. 30 that Archbishop Richard Gagnon, 76, will retire as bishop of Winnipeg after Pope Francis accepted his resignation request and that Chatlain, currently Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, will be his successor.

Health Canada’s new annual report about medical assistance in dying (MAiD) revealed that euthanasia now accounts for nearly five per cent — 15,343 people — of the nation’s total fatalities (326,571) in 2023.

Toronto Catholics welcomed Cardinal Francis Leo back to Toronto following his journey to Rome earlier this month where he was elevated to the College of Cardinals.

The 600 young adults attending Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO)’s 2024 Rise Up conference in Calgary from Dec. 29 to Jan. 1 will be implored to “take courage” and navigate the secularized world as bold disciples of Jesus Christ.

The enduring legacy of the Sisters of Providence, who founded the original St. Paul’s Hospital in 1894, was front and centre Dec. 6 as Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller blessed the cornerstone for the new St. Paul’s Hospital being built in False Creek Flats.

A vibrant coloured illustration of the Nativity is among the Christmas stamps issued by Canada Post this year, continuing a tradition in place for 60 years.

While the Church is marking Advent and preparing for Christmas, artist Steven Knight is finding himself immersed in work more evocative of Holy Week and Easter, and struggling with the realization that one of his works needed to be completely remade.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh declared today in a letter shared to social media that he and his party will join Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives and Yves-François Blanchet’s Bloc Québécois in bringing down the Liberal Government with a non-confidence vote.

Offering spiritual nourishment to Calgary Catholics leading up to Christmas was just one of the key aims of the diocesan Advent retreats hosted early in December.