In honour of the 85th anniversary of Lenin’s death, people planned to dress as mummies and gather at his mausoleum in Red Square to suggest that the ruthless tyrant should finally be buried in the ground. The timely gesture was thwarted, unfortunately, as Moscow police put the kibosh on festivities before they began.
Moscow police [...]

It’s getting harder to tell Hindu extremists from Muslim extremists.
Activists of a self-styled pro-Hindu moral brigade called Sri Rama Sene barged into a pub in the coastal city of Mangalore on Saturday and bashed up a few young girls for “violating traditional Indian norms”, police said Sunday.
At least two girls were punched and their hair [...]

Two journalists making a documentary on how the United Nations handles human rights issues were ejected from a UN meeting in Geneva earlier this week.  The subjects under discussion at the meeting were freedom of expression and “defamation of religion”.  The expulsion was ordered at the behest of the Organisation of Islamic Conference.
Two journalists from [...]

A Toronto man and woman had three daughters during a relationship that lasted about five years. After they separated (and later divorced), the children remained in the custody of the mother, while the father was supposed to have regular access and time alone with them.
Ten years later, Justice Faye McWatt has ordered the girls, [...]

For her rejection of the Islamist paradigm for women’s behaviour, Masoda Younasy was publicly denounced and threatened by many in Afghanistan, including some in her own family. Her life was in danger and she needed a place of refuge. Through the efforts of Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, Canada took her in.
This is another [...]

For over 25 years, many mail carriers at the post office in Cornwall, Ontario, departed for their daily rounds with the words, “Merci Seigneur pour la belle journée”. (In English, “Thank you Lord for the beautiful day”.) Following a mysterious human rights complaint, however, Canada Post management banned the phrase and threatened to discipline [...]

“Suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven” — Acts 9:3
This morning’s offertory hymn on The Conversion of St Paul/Third Sunday After the Epiphany at Christ Church, Windsor. Hymn #188 in The Book of Common Praise (1938), official hymn book for the whole of The Church of England in Canada (later Anglican Church [...]

The collect for today, the Conversion of Saint Paul, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
O God, who, through the preaching of the blessed Apostle Saint Paul, hast caused the light of the Gospel to shine throughout the world; Grant, we beseech thee, that we, having his wonderful conversion in remembrance, may show forth [...]

The collect for today, the Third Sunday After Epiphany, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
Almighty and everlasting God, mercifully look upon our infirmities, and in all our dangers and necessities stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle: Romans 12:16-21
The Gospel: St Matthew 8:1-13