UBC’s new president will address the BC Leadership Prayer Breakfast Friday morning (March 24) at Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Dr. Santa Ono will address the 1,000 people – largely from the business and professional community – who attend the event. The… Read more →
Cancer has touched us all in some way. Research figures say 50 percent of us will wrestle with some form of cancer in our lifetimes. The other 50 percent may know cancer in a different way – through the struggle… Read more →
José Figueroa is a free man, just in time for Christmas. Matthew Claxton of Langley Advance was on the scene when it happened December 23. He wrote: José Figueroa broke down in tears as he took his first steps outside of a… Read more →
A number of Pacific Theatre artists will be producing and acting in Vancouver Fringe Festival shows, from September 10 – 20. Andrea Loewen, director of marketing and publicity at Pacific Theatre, says on Soul Food Vancouver: We have a ton… Read more →
Mikhail Lennikov has lived in First Lutheran Church (at 42nd and Wales in East Vancouver) for more than five years. While his hosts would like to see him go free, they have also grappled with the significance of sanctuary in… Read more →
Archbishop Michael Miller’s Christmas message to his Roman Catholic flock this year is that “the Holy Family was a refugee family”: Soon after the splendour of that glorious night in Bethlehem, the gospel presents the Holy Family on the sorrowful road of… Read more →
“I never dreamed it would come to this – if we had only used common sense José wouldn’t have had to seek sanctuary.” So says Karl Keller, the long-time pastor of Walnut Grove Lutheran Church, referring to his parishioner José Figueroa, who… Read more →
