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Josiah Neufeld

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Whose Christianity will shape Alberta’s future?

Whose Christianity will shape Alberta’s future?

One morning in May, John Pentland, a minister at Hillhurst United Church in Calgary, opened his newspaper and read about a group of Albertans who were...

02.10.2026 10

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The Confession booth on wheels

GRUNTHAL — Last Sunday, David Balzer parked his vintage 1978 Triple E Surfside camper trailer on a church lot in town and, like an itinerant priest...

21.09.2026 10

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What would you do to escape?

I used to have a meaningful job, a loving family and a strong community. All that changed overnight. There was a regime change. I lost my job and...

02.09.2026 20

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Quakers have fought slavery. Now some want to abolish prisons.

A few weeks ago, the erstwhile punk-rock-poet John Samson Fellows taught an auditorium full of people how to fold a paper cup. With each fold, he...

07.08.2026 40

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A Winnipeg mosque that mends lives

The Masjid Bilal is a chunky grey building just off Logan Avenue surrounded by warehouses and railyards. It looks more like a bunker than a mosque. ...

20.07.2026 50

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Archdiocese of Winnipeg funding multiple projects in reconciliation efforts with Indigenous Peoples

About 100 kilometres north of Winnipeg, on the eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg, a village is being built where Indigenous girls, women and two-spirit...

03.07.2026 50

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An aging congregation bets its future on the next generation

A dwindling congregation that owns a red brick church building in South Osborne, Winnipeg has found a creative way to keep its doors open while...

24.06.2026 50

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In Winkler, pride finds a place in church

On Saturday morning, the day of Winkler’s first Pride celebration, Erika Enns Rodine, a Mennonite pastor wearing a white T-shirt with a...

16.06.2026 40

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Winkler’s first Pride draws stories of pain and hope

Sebastian Saunders is both excited and nervous about returning to Winkler to tell his story at his hometown’s first Pride event. To get through his...

13.06.2026 50

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Palestinian Christians seek solidarity amid war and displacement

Christians in Palestine are crying out to their spiritual siblings worldwide for solidarity and support as they face death, displacement and...

28.05.2026 50

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Winnipeg Muslims shaken, weighing safety after deadly U.S. mosque shooting

Muslims in Winnipeg are shaken and weighing safety precautions after gunmen opened fire at a U.S. mosque Monday, killing three people. Two teenage...

20.05.2026 40

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High cost of compassion threatens to shutter Christian home for people with HIV in Winnipeg

Days after Manitoba declared a public health emergency over rising HIV rates, a Christian home for people living with the immunodeficiency virus is...

19.05.2026 40

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Winnipeg exhibit helps tell story of Sikh immigrant who put life on line

On an unseasonably warm winter day in January 1916, a 27-year-old man walked into the enlistment office in Winnipeg and volunteered to fight in the...

13.05.2026 40

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Wab Kinew is just getting started

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