Youth Activism
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Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 7:36 in
Announcements, Features, Pro-Life, Youth Activism | Author:
Pauline Kosalka When then 12-year-old Lia Mills posted her speech about abortion on YouTube, she got millions of news.
The pro-life movement has taken advantage of the rising popularity of social media to spread its message and gain supporters. During the U.S. March for Life in January 2013, pro-lifers used these platforms to spread information and report on the event attended by hundreds of thousands of participants, which the mainstream media ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jan, 2013 at 10:06 in
Pro-Life, Youth Activism | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Oliver Capko
A British Columbia campus pro-life group has won its fight to become a recognized club. Protectores Vitae, formed by students, and led by president Oliver Capko at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in the Greater Vancouver Area, obtained legal representation from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms and announced, on Dec. 3, that it would take the Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) to court because it was denied club status by the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Nov, 2012 at 9:48 in
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Interim Staff Genevieve Umeh (right) and Joann Rajanayagam (left) of McMaster Lifeline receive the pro-life club award from Dan Di Rocco, representing The Interim and Niagara Region RTL.
For the past 15 years the National Campus Life Network CLN Symposium has been bringing together university students from across Canada for a weekend featuring speakers to provide information and knowledge to equip them to bring the pro-life message to their university campus. This year’s ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Nov, 2012 at 9:08 in
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Interim Staff For the past 15 years the National Campus Life Network CLN Symposium has been bringing together university students from across Canada for a weekend featuring speakers to provide information and knowledge to equip them to bring the pro-life message to their university campus. This year’s symposium – the organization’s 15th – was held at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto, Sept. 28-30.
Theresa Gilbert, NCLN’s president, told The Interim “The symposiumm, in 1997, was actually the birthplace of the National Campus Life ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Oct, 2012 at 7:36 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Youth Activism | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Alexandra Jezierski organized Letters for Life
A Grade 12 student achieved her goal of sending 100,000 letters to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and MPs asking them to support Motion-312. Alexandra Jezierski from Kingsville, Ont., launched the campaign to support MP Stephen Woodworth’s private members motion that would start a debate on when human life begins. Her inspiration was the Teenage Life Club in the United States, a group of teenage girls aiming ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Jul, 2012 at 12:06 in
Abortion, Announcements, Features, Politics, Youth Activism | Author:
Pauline Kosalka A group of young pro-lifers are using a defining campaign of the old pro-abortion movement to spread the message that abortion kills unborn babies across Canada.
In 1970, a group of pro-abortion feminists from the Vancouver Women’s Caucus met in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery to begin a journey across Canada in a caravan. Using images of coffins and coat hangers, participants aimed to eliminate Canada’s abortion laws and win the “right” ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Jul, 2012 at 11:53 in
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Jessica Lamb Walk. Pray. Eat. Sleep. Yes sleep is the last thing you think about and have time for on Crossroads.
Crossroads is a pro-life group that organizes walks across the U.S., Canada, and Ireland. Its mission is to share the gospel of life in the streets like the first apostles. Crossroads started as a response to John Paul II’s call to the youth to rebuild the culture of life, at the Denver World Youth ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Apr, 2012 at 8:04 in
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Pauline Kosalka The Youth Conference occurring in Ottawa the day after the National March for Life promises to be a valuable experience for young people interested in learning about pro-life issues and becoming more involved in the pro-life movement.
According to the Campaign Life Coalition website, the youth conference will take the form of “an intensive workshop for young people, designed to arm youth with expert knowledge and the necessary communications strategies to go back into their communities, tackling the culture of death head on, and transforming it into ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Apr, 2012 at 8:03 in
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Interim Staff At the Youth Banquet during the National March for Life, young people will have the opportunity to listen to keynote speaker Rev. Patrick Mahoney, a prominent member of the American pro-life movement. Rev. Mahoney is the president of the Christian Defense Coalition, a national ministry challenging Christians to live out their faith in the public square. Rev. Mahoney is an ordained minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, as well as a Christian ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2012 at 5:32 in
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Patrick B. Craine Special to The Interim After a Calgary policeman arrested a pro-life activist Feb. 4 over his use of graphic abortion signs, the police service have dropped the charges and issued an apology, returned his signs, and pledged to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Francisco Gomez, a staff member with the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform, was leading the group’s regular “Choice” Chain at a busy Calgary intersection when an officer approached and asked them to take the signs down because they were “distracting” and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Mar, 2012 at 6:45 in
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Interim Staff A pro-life sidewalk demonstration that forces passers-by to face the truth about what “choice” means is coming to Toronto.
The Canadian Center for Bioethical Reform (CCBR) uses three feet by four feet signs with graphic images of aborted babies under the question “Choice?” in order to engage the public in a conversation about abortion by showing what the euphemism of choice is really about: the killing of an unborn child.
Campaign Life Coalition ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2012 at 11:14 in
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Patrick C. Craine Special to The Interim After denying a pro-life group official club status in 2010, Carleton University’s student union is proposing a referendum to ban pro-life groups from the campus altogether.
The question asks: “Are you in favour of banning groups such as Lifeline, the Genocide Awareness Project, Campaign for Life Coalition and other organizations that use inaccurate information and violent images to discourage women from exploring all options in the event of pregnancy from Carleton University?”
The question was proposed by Shelly Melanson, a former National ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2011 at 8:14 in
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The National Campus Life Network is dedicated to promoting the pro-life activism on university and college campuses. Recently, NCLN held its annual symposium at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto, bringing together 35 representatives from pro-life clubs across the country. Students from existing clubs were present as were students who are working to form new clubs at their universities. This was the 15th annual symposium.
In a brief interview with The Interim, Rebecca ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Nov, 2011 at 8:00 in
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On Oct. 22, more than 2000 people turned out for the Defund Abortion Rally at Queen’s Park organized by Campaign Life Coalition Youth.
Eight speakers made the case against funding abortion insisting that the procedure is not medically necessary and highlighting what real health care is not covered by public funds.
Campaign Life Coalition has calculated that the direct costs of abortion are at least $30 million and that the real direct and indirect ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2011 at 10:25 in
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John Henry Westen A Montreal priest has turned away young pro-life pilgrims from entering the city’s basilica because their message in defense of the unborn was too political.
Wearing stylish jeans and a white button-down shirt, Fr. Robert Gagne, insisted that the young people walking across Canada to promote the pro-life message could not enter the famous Basilica to pray because of the ‘pro-life’ message emblazoned on their T-shirts.
The historic Notre Dame Basilica, run by the ... (Continue reading)
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