Douglas Todd
Douglas Todd is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS STORY: Canadian Catholic Diocese Faces Financial Crisis
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VICTORIA, British Columbia _ The Roman Catholic diocese of Vancouver Island is being forced to sell off land and assets to pay millions of dollars in debt incurred under the tenure of retired Bishop Remi De Roo. Monsignor Michael O’Connell, his voice breaking with emotion, read out a public letter […]
NEWS STORY: Asian Immigrants Changing Canada’s Religious Landscape
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ A river of immigrants from Asia is keeping Canada’s three largest cities from turning into enclaves of secularism. A major Statistics Canada survey released in mid-December reveals that strongly religious immigrants from Asia have swept into Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto, where they’ve been eagerly attending Buddhist, […]
NEWS FEATURE: The Tragic Intersection Where Violence and Nonviolence Meet
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ A Vancouver Starbucks manager, hailed as a hero after he sacrificed his life to save a female employee, was known to draw on his Buddhist belief in nonviolence to save even the life of a moth. At a Sunday (Feb. 6) memorial service, Ethel Wan-Sharp told […]
NEWS FEATURE: Historian Compares, Contrasts U.S., Canadian Religious History
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ Americans and Canadians can benefit from sifting out the subtle religious differences between their two nations, says one of the premier Christian historians in North America. Mark Noll, a professor at Wheaton College in Illinois who taught about Canadian Christianity this summer at Vancouver’s Regent College, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Author Beats the Ultimate Deadline
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ Death is the ultimate deadline. And Dennis Danielson heard it rapping hard on his door a year ago as he struggled to complete his soaring anthology, “The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining the Universe From Heraclitus to Hawking.” Months before the University of British Columbia literature […]
NEWS FEATURE: Influx of Asians Changing Face of Catholic Priesthood
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ Father Joseph Phuong Nguyen is one of the new faces of the Roman Catholic priesthood in North America. He was persecuted for practicing Christianity in Vietnam. He almost drowned escaping on a boat. He struggled to learn English so he could become a priest. His giant […]
NEWS STORY: Meeting Seeks to Redeem Legacy of Canada’s Church-Run Schools
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ Former staff members of Canada’s now-notorious residential schools for native Indians came from across the country earlier this month for the rare chance to say there’s more to their legacy than high-profile sex-abuse cases. “This has been something I’ve dreamed about for a long time. A […]
NEWS FEATURE: Canada’s Muslims Seek to Boost Influence
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ It’s almost impossible to find a Canadian Muslim who has been appointed a judge. And no Muslim is known to have been honored by the Canadian government with the prestigious title “Member of the Order of Canada.” Canada appears as well to have virtually no elected […]
NEWS STORY: Canadian Anglican Diocese to Vote on Declaring Bankruptcy
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ The Anglican diocese of Cariboo, British Columbia, will vote next month on a plan that would make it the first diocese in Canadian history to declare bankruptcy. Faced with daunting court costs from native residential-school lawsuits, priests and lay leaders in the sprawling British Columbia interior […]
NEWS STORY: Canada’s Catholic Schools Fight Bankruptcy in Sex Scandal Case
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ The future of two prestigious Greater Vancouver Roman Catholic schools has turned grimmer this month as the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear their appeal of a decision clearing the way to liquidate their assets. But Vancouver College and St. Thomas More Collegiate, both run […]
NEWS STORY: Jehovah’s Witness Official Deny Policy Change on Blood Transfusions
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Top Jehovah’s Witnesses in North America are denying a report out of Britain that the religion has ended a controversial policy forbidding members from accepting blood transfusions. Jehovah’s Witness officials in New York and Toronto said the faith’s leaders have made only a minor “procedural” change […]
NEWS STORY: Canada’s Churches Fight Membership Decline
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ The minister at Greater Vancouver’s largest mainline Christian sanctuary has kicked off the grandest building project in United Church of Canada history for one key reason _ survival. While hundreds of United Church congregations across the country have shut their doors or merged because of empty […]
NEWS STORY: De Roo’s Financial Decisions `Beyond Belief’
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ A national Roman Catholic commission has concluded former Victoria, British Columbia, Bishop Remi De Roo’s bad financial decisions were “beyond belief” as he embroiled the diocese deeper and deeper in a financial “debacle” that has left it facing possible losses of $17 million. De Roo, who […]
NEWS STORY: Anglican-Catholic Future: `A Note of Mystery’
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A historic meeting between the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches closed Friday (May 19) in Toronto amid a mixture of hope and ambiguity about whether the two denominations could ever achieve unity. Although Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey said the gathering confirmed the two “similar” churches would work toward […]
NEWS STORY: Top Anglican, Catholic Bishops Meet on Unity
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A historic meeting of the world’s top Anglican and Catholic bishops, set to begin Sunday (May 14) in Toronto, could be a major step toward the eventual healing of the 500-year-old rift between the two church bodies. The first-ever gathering of 26 high-level Anglican and Catholic bishops, including Archbishop […]
