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Finance chair says Canada has ‘no plans’ to change charitable status for faith groups

Finance chair says Canada has ‘no plans’ to change charitable status for faith groups

The Canadian government appears to have paused any consideration of removing charitable status for faith-based organizations after the chair of the House of Commons Finance Committee said there are “no plans to change that.” The assurance comes after months of concern among churches, legal advocates, and religious groups over controversial parliamentary recommendations that could have stripped faith-based and pro-life organizations of their charitable status.

Opinion

  • Why the United Nations needs saving

    Last week, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced that the UN could run out of money by July. The main reason is that the United States has virtually ended its contributions. Why should Christians care at this time of global crisis and the dissipation of alliances unlike anything the free world has experienced since the formation of the UN? Because the issues are not merely political they're theological.

  • A warning to awaken and become aware to the soul numbing hum

    Christian author and thought leader, Paul Kingsnorth has issued us with a clarion call to beware of "the Machine". Les Csorba adds that it does not seek our destruction, nor does it need our rebellion. It seeks something far more dangerous: our distraction. Its quiet ambition is to replace the sacred grammar of the human soul with its own version of transcendence. 

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