Churches face 'devastating' taxes in Canada
Luke Randall
Christian charities across Canada could be faced with “devastating” consequences if never-seen-before recommendations to end religious privilege exemptions are implemented. The proposal is the latest in an extensive list of liberal policies adopted by the North American country in recent times.
Each year, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance compiles a report ahead of the annual budget announcement and has this year called for the removal of charitable status from anti-abortion organisations and for national income tax laws to be amended to remove charitable status from organisations which primarily exist to “advance religion,” which could see churches targeted.
Canada could arrest people before crime committed
Legislation being proposed by the Canadian government is potentially ‘fascist’, psychologist and author Jordan Peterson is warning.
Writing in the UK’s Telegraph online, he declares: ‘New legislation proposed by the government mandates the generation of a soon-to-be giant bureaucracy to monitor and punish in an extra-judicial manner so-called “crimes of hate”, soon [to be] defined as any speech or act that the bureaucrats and corporations in charge of the definition themselves object to.
letter from Canada
Welcoming refugees: an act of grace
Hospitality appears to be one of many natural outpourings in response to encountering the saving grace of Christ.
In Acts 16 Lydia, the seller of purple goods, opens her home to Paul and Silas after the Lord opened her heart. Only a few verses later, the Philippian jailer is washing the wounds of Paul and Silas and bringing them into his home to feed them, all the while rejoicing in his new-found faith in Christ. Something happens when we meet Jesus; we begin to love our neighbour.
