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Hill Xmas-th.jpg (21032 bytes) 'The lights are on but nobody's home'

Christmas lights are aglow on Parliament Hill but with the Jan. 23 federal election campaign in full swing,  the House of Commons is closed for business for several more weeks.
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File photo		 Fr. Richard Renshaw, CSC, former assistant general secretary of the Canadian Religious Conference, said in a CBC radio interview Dec. 4 that he is gay. He also criticized the new Vatican document on homosexual ordination as “humiliating” and “insidious.”
cpt demo-th.jpg (44075 bytes) Peace acitivists, including at least two Roman Catholic nuns and an Anglican priest who is also a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), marched to the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa Dec. 6. The group of about 50 urged the U.S. and Britain to end their occupation of Iraq. They also held a vigil in a local church in support of the CPT members being held captive in Iraq, including Harmeet Sooden and Jim Loney, both of Canada,Tom Fox of the U.S., and Norman Kember of
England.
baldwin-dec6-th.jpg (31515 bytes) The Rev. Bill Baldwin, an Ottawa Anglican priest and member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), says Canadian Jim Loney, one of four CPT members being held captive in Iraq, was to have been his replacement. Baldwin completed two assignments with the organization this year on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. 
 

                                                                Photos from previous weeks