Todd Bentley (right), founder of Abbotsford's Fresh Fire Ministries, prays during a revival meeting in Lakeland, Florida. PHOTO: LARA MERZ PHOTOGRAPHY
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LAKELAND, FL—A miracle-filled “outpouring” led by British Columbia-based evangelist Todd Bentley is getting attention from thousands of people worldwide. Many claim miraculous healing; others are skeptical.
A tattooed and lip-studded ex-biker, Bentley heads Fresh Fire Ministries in Abbotsford. On April 2, he began what was supposed to have been five days of services at a charismatic church in Lakeland, Florida that would be broadcast around the world on God TV. But sensing the power of God in their midst, organizers soon decided to keep meeting indefinitely.
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WINNIPEG, MB—Samuel Golubchuk, an 85-year-old Orthodox Jew whose last months of life in Grace General Hospital ignited a national debate over end-of-life care, has left behind some unanswered ethical questions.
Golubchuk died on June 24, almost seven months after doctors recommended that he be removed from life-support system because he wasn’t likely to recover and was barely conscious.
Golubchuk’s children took the case to court, saying that turning off the machines that kept their father alive would violate his Orthodox Jewish beliefs.
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TORONTO, ON—Members of a pro-life group and an atheist club at York University are challenging a motion the York Federation of Students (YFS) recently passed to exclude pro-life groups.
In late May the YFS voted unanimously to deny “resources, space, recognition or funding” to any clubs or individual students “whose primary or sole purpose is anti-choice activity.” The motion states that excluded activities include any that seek “to limit the individual’s right to choose what they can or cannot do with one’s own body.”
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