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Cuts to Development and Peace: The CRC Request the restoration of funding

The CRC has written to the Honourable CRC Beverly J. Oda to express its growing concern about the continuing funding shortfall at the Canadian Catholic Organisation for Development and Peace and to request the restoration of crucial funding to this vital organisation.

The religious orders of Canada have supported the mission of Development and Peace from its very beginnings, both financially and through the active engagement of our members. We have never had any reason whatsoever to doubt that its projects in collaboration with trusted partners in the South are among the most carefully chosen and adapted to local needs.

It is most unfortunate that this work is now seriously threatened because of the CIDA cuts to Development and Peace over the next five years.

Open this PDF document : Letter to Bev Oda

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Living Life's End Lecture

Toronto: The Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute invites you to hear Susan Morgan, Community Chaplain with Saint Elizabeth Health Care, speak about “Living Life’s End.”  This is a free lecture and all are welcome. It will take place at Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street (at Queen’s Park Circle E.) on April 26, 2012, 7 pm.

As one of two Community Chaplains, Susan supports clients, their families and field staff in the Central Service Delivery Centre, York Region. Susan’s formative educational experiences include bereavement education and grief counselling, mindfulness stress reduction training as inspired by the ground-breaking work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, completion of the Contemplative End of Life Care program at the Institute of Traditional Medicine, and a Master’s degree in Divinity.

Susan has had a long-time association with Jean Vanier and L’Arche, an international organization of faith-based communities creating homes and day programs with people who have developmental disabilities. She worked with Jean to create two television series for the Vision television network on the body of his work and the spirituality of L’Arche.
   
 

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Justice Craft Seminar

Notre Dame, Ind. — Holy Cross' JusticeCraft, an intensive, weeklong seminar sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Cross and the Holy Cross International Justice Office, is seeking religious and lay participants who want to develop skills and strategies that enable them to lead and coordinate justice ministries in congregations, in parishes and on college campuses.

Reservations will be accepted through May 11 for this year’s program which runs June 3-10. JusticeCraft hosts participants from around the world, as well as an internationally recognized faculty, at Saint Mary’s, Notre Dame, Ind. To make a reservation, contact Dana Taylor at dtaylor@cscsisters.org.

For more information visit:
http://www.cscsisters.org/justice/justicecraft/Pages/default.aspx or http://www.holycrossjustice.org/JusticeCraft/JusticeCraft.asp.

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One Dollar for One World

"Ever since they found out how much the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) agreed to contribute to Development and Peace over the next five years, the members of this international cooperation organization have mobilized to carry out a number of initiatives and activities to express their disappointment."

The One Dollar for One World initiative is one important way for you to add your voice to that of others across the country calling attention to the grave injustice that is being perpetrated against Development and Peace’s partners.  An injustice, which is the direct result of changes in CIDA priorities and processes that are premised on the oxymoronic notion that competition is the new road to international cooperation, and about which the Canadian public was never advised or consulted.

You are invited to send a symbolic 1$ to your local MP with a request that the MP assist in having your dollar matched by CIDA and then forwarded to Development and Peace. For a detailed presentation of this initiative with a sample letter and a report form, open this Word document. The material is also available on the Development and Peace blog at: http://devpeacemembers.wordpress.com/take-action/one-dollar-for-one-world/

"The reduction of two-thirds of CIDA's subsidiary will have serious consequences for the poor and marginalized in many countries that we reach through our more than one hundred partners," said Michael Casey, Executive Director of Development and Peace.

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The SIGNIS-WACC Human Rights Award 2011

Brussels/Toronto, April 2, 2012 (WACC/SIGNIS) - The SIGNIS-WACC Human Rights Award 2011 has been given to VERDADES VERDADERAS (TRUE TRUTHS) a feature film by Argentinean filmmaker Nicolás Gil Lavedra on the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.

Verdades verdaderas tells the personal story of Estela de Carlotto, whose daughter Laura, arrested by the dictatorship when she was three months pregnant, was murdered after giving birth to her son in prison. The film lets us follow the experience lived by the leading character as she was transformed from a simple mother and housewife into a tireless fighter, the leader of a crusade for the recovery of the children stolen by the military dictatorship.

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This Week

 AprilAprAAAaaaprilaprilSundayMay 20, 2012MaMay 20, 2012: Celebration of the 46th World Day of Social Communications. Pope Benedict's message is entitled Silence and Word: Path of Evangelisation. The message is available on the Vatican website at: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/communications/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20120124_46th-world-communications-day_en.html

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