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Bishop Douglas Crosby, the new bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Hamilton, invites all people to celebrate with him a vigil of prayer for “the safeguarding of all nascent human life” on Saturday, November 27, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. in the Cathedral of Christ the King, 714 King Street West, Hamilton. This vigil is in union with the world-wide call for a vigil by the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI.
3000 babies’ lives saved — and 3000 women saved from the trauma of either their first or a repeat abortion — will be part of the good news that David Bereit, founder and national campaign director of the 40 Days for Life prayer vigils, will announce to the Halton Pro-Life Annual Respect Life Fundraiser Banquet on November 5. To learn more about the 3000 babies, click here.
Please come to the Banquet to hear how 40 Days for Life could save lives here in Halton.
To purchase tickets, please download our ticket order form. To take advantage of Banquet sponsorship opportunities to support the work of Halton Pro-Life, please download the sponsorship form.
Date: Friday, November 5
Time: 6 pm reception, 7 pm dinner
Place: Oakville Conference and Banquet Centre, 2515 Wyecroft Road, Oakville
Guest speaker: David Bereit, national campaign director and founder of the 40 Days for Life prayer vigils.
Entertainment: Canada’s newest country-singing star, Carly Taylor.
MC: broadcasting veteran Brian Salmon, GiantFM 91.7. For details, call Halton Pro-Life: 905.632.3232, e-mail haltonprolife@bellnet.ca
Tickets: $75.00 ($35.00 students) - click here for ticket order form
For sponsorship opportunities: click here for table sponsor form and details.
For details of banquet and 40 Days For Life, click here.
David Bereit, national campaign director and founder of the 40 Days for Life prayer vigils, will be the main speaker at Halton Pro-Life’s 2010 Respect Life Fundraising Banquet to be held on Friday, November 5, in the Oakville Conference Centre, 2515 Wyecroft Rd, Oakville (South West Corner of QEW and Bronte Road). For details of how to purchase tickets (at $75 each) or help us through sponsorships, please call 905.632.3232, e-mail haltonprolife@bellnet.ca or visit the Halton Pro-Life Resource Centre, Suite 39, 760 Brant Street, Burlington, Mailing address, PO Box 85601, Burlington, ON L7R 4K3.
For more on 40 Days For Life and the Banquet program, click here.
To order tickets, click here.
To sponsor a table, click here.
Linda appeared in court as scheduled on Sept 30 (see below) but her case was remanded until October 30. Defence lawyer Daniel Santoro will argue that the injunction under which she was arrested and kept in prison is “abusive” to her. For a full report, please visit the Lifesitenews website.
Linda Gibbons, who has spent more than eight years in prison for proclaiming outside abortion clinics the 
truth about abortion, will appear in court at 10 a.m., Tuesday, August 10, at the College Park provincial court, Yonge and College Streets, downtown Toronto, for a ruling by Madam Justice Mara Beth Greene. Pro-lifers are free to attend to show her support. For details of how and why she is being prosecuted, and what life has been like for her in prison, click here.
Pro-lifers need to express compassion for women in crisis pregnancies or who have had abortions as much as we express our commitment to the right to life of the child in the womb, said Dr. David Reardon of the Elliott Institute to the 2010 Alliance For Life Ontario conference.
That was the essence of his talk, entitled “Ending abortion with compassion.” He did not suggest that pro-lifers lack compassion for the women in crisis pregnancies, but by concentrating on the rights of the baby in the womb, we sometimes fail to express sufficiently our concern for and sensitivity towards women in difficulty.
He presented his talk in four themes:
Click here for a review of his talk.
One hundred students from Halton Catholic secondary schools went by bus to join 12,500 other pro-lifers 
in Ottawa for the March for Life. On the way back, some wrote their impressions of the march and the Youth Conference, where they heard Melissa Ohden speak about how she survived an abortion attempt and what it has mean tot her life. Here are their impressions, just as they wrote them. (Some preferred to remain anonymous, others are identified by first names only.) Congratulations to the teachers and chaplains who organized the trip. To read the students’ comments, click here.
”I believe that the most serious problem we face as a modern-day society is our inability to distinguish the value of a life,” : Samantha Pettinato, who has graduated this year from St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary School, Oakville, wrote in an essay for an English class this year, which she gave her Mary Muller (a past president of Halton Pro-Life) permission to send to us. Samantha decided for herself which side of the abortion fence she would be on. Her essay should be read by all young people struggling to determine whether they are pro-life or pro-choice. To read her essay, click here.
The recent Alliance For Life Ontario provincial conference certainly lived up to the promise of its theme: “Facing a changing world - making the case for the future of humanity.” This intensely educational conference delved into issues that underpin the culture of death, abortion and calls for legalization of euthanasia, and ended with a message of hope. Read more . . .