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The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, held 18-25 January, will draw together churches across the globe to reflect on the hope and joy in Matthew 2:2, “We saw the star in the East, and we came to worship him.” The proposed resources include an ecumenical opening prayer service, biblical reflections and prayers for eight days, and other elements of worship.

The Eighteenth World Day of Prayer and Reflection Against Human Trafficking will be held on February 8, 2022, with the theme: “The power of care: women, economy, human trafficking”. This year, the international committee of prayer has proposed, like last year, the online prayer marathon from 9:00 to 17:00 p.m. (Rome time), an opportunity to pray and to reflect on the proposed theme. You’re therefore invited to participate in the marathon by sending us a video, an interview, messages, dance, prayer, gestures, small shots of projects that reflect testimonies of care and empowerment of people who are victims of trafficking or groups at risk.

The CRC supports KAIROS and its members in an open letter sent to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, calling on him to re-open the investigation for crimes against humanity committed under the auspices of the War on Drugs in the Philippines. Such an investigation is needed to ensure international justice for the victims of these abuses and their families.  The letter also calls on Canada, as a state party to the Rome Statute, to publicly support the investigation and to provide any knowledge or resources necessary in order for it to be completed.  

Advent is such a hopeful season full of kairos moments. […] In spite of the on-going pandemic and its new variant accompanied by fresh anxieties, in spite of the disastrous floods experienced on our three coasts, in spite of the homeless folks couch-surfing or camping out on the streets, can we find hope? Can we find it in the young environmental activists who won’t back down? We hope so.

We are pleased to inform you of two recent congregational elections among the members of the CRC. Sr. Theresa Mahoney, OSU, and Sr. Diane Smyth, RSM, were respectively elected Congregational Leader of the Ursuline Sisters of Chatham and the Sisters of Mercy of Newfoundland.

From early October 26th to late October 29th, together, First Nation Peoples, Inuit, Métis, partners in the South and the North shared stories and struggles, recognized the moments of Life and acknowledged the darkness. All that makes up KAIROS, the movement of Indigenous, settlers and newcomers in Canada, people of faith or conscience all over the world, working for ecological justice and human rights came into stark relief via zoom. We celebrated!

It is with deep sadness that the Missionary Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate of St. Boniface, Manitoba, inform of the passing of their General Superior, Sister Léa Archambault, MO. Sister Léa passed away on Sunday, October 17th, 2021.