Update: Click here for the MP3 audio recording of Ray Penning's talk to MP's. You can play it online or right click the link to save it to your MP3 player.

(www.ARPACanada.ca) - May 11, 2010: The faith-based concerns of ARPA Canada were effectively communicated, Tuesday, May 4 and Wednesday, May 5, as representatives of Canada’s Reformed churches gathered in Ottawa to encourage and exhort Members of Parliament and Senators to heed the claims of Scripture and religious convictions of Canada’s electorate in public life.

Marci McDonald's recently-launched book "The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada" has been making headlines across the country. In this 400+ page book, McDonald attempts to make the case that the "Christian Right" in Canada is large, organized, has direct ties to Harper, and is something that all Canadians should fear. Alongside the many factual errors, one of its key weaknesses is they way that the author paints all conservatives with the same brush, lumping ARPA in with most other religious organizations that dare speak up in the public square and suggesting with the title that we all share a common view of the end times which motivates us to political action.

This spring, MP Rod Bruinooge introduced Bill C-510 which proposes to make it a crime to coerce a woman to have an abortion. Read more about this here. The law was inspired by Roxanne Fernando, who was brutally murdered for refusing to have an abortion. A new website has been created to tell Roxanne's story and build support for this bill. Check it out here. It includes a petition which is available here. Please take the time to print off copies and collect signatures. They can be handed in to either your local MP or Rod Bruinooge.

Christian Horizons, a faith-based ministry, employs over 2,500 people to provide housing, care and support to over 1,400 developmentally disabled individuals, and has done so for more than 40 years. This Christian ministry, which requires its employees to sign a Statement of Faith and a Lifestyle and Morality Policy, was the subject of a human rights complaint when a staff member resigned after she felt she could no longer live according to the commitment she made when she signed the policy.

ARPA Note: Kudo's to CLC for organizing this, to the Jubilee church in Ottawa for having a Reformed prayer service, and to the many MP's who bravely stood for life. Please send them a note of appreciation (their names are below).

By John Jalsevac: OTTAWA, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Under balmy skies that were greeted with prayers of thanksgiving by those recalling last year’s cold and blustery weather, thousands of pro-life Canadians gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa for the 2010 Canadian March for Life on Thursday - a crowd that Jim Hughes, president of Campaign Life Coalition, estimated at about 12,500 people.

If you live in Ontario, join thousands of others as you take a stand for the unborn in our nation's capital. Before the march for life, a special prayer service will be held at Jubilee Canadian Reformed Church (Meeting at Merivale United Church, 1876 Merivale Road, Nepean) at 10:00 am. Other marches are being held in cities across the country. Click here for more information.

The Alberta government's Ministry of Health and Wellness is asking Albertans for input into its plans for a new health act. You have an opportunity to get inolved by filling in their survey. Keep in mind the issue of abortion funding that we brought forward last year (see below).