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Newfoundland’s new premier Roger Grimes “led a successful campaign to strip Newfoundland’s churches of their power over the province’s school system,” reports CBC news.  https://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/02/04/grimes_010204

The Winnipeg Sun reported that Henry Freitag, is taking legal action to stop the Lord’s Prayer from being recited in Ontario’s provincial legislature. Freitag, a Jew, says the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer each day before the legislature sits is religious indoctrination and violates the freedom of religion provision of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He was successful in having the prayer removed from Penetanguishene council meetings by court order.

North Carolina’s Duke University now allows homosexual union ceremonies to be held in its chapel even though the state and the United Methodist Church, with which the institution is affiliated, do not recognize same-sex unions.  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0014629.html

Cybercast News Service reports that a San Francisco pastor who was threatened at home – and had his church firebombed by homosexual activists – continues his ministry to homosexuals, warning about the moral and physical consequences of their behaviour.  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive