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  VANCOUVER A battle between the province and religious leaders is playing out before the chief justice of the B.C. Supreme Court this week, as three Fraser Valley churches challenge the constitutionality of public health orders. Abbotsford’s Immanuel Covenant Reformed Church, the Free Reformed Church of Chilliwack and Langley’s Riverside Calvary Chapel contend orders prohibiting in person religious services violate their rights. “The practice of their faith together is extremely important,” said lawyer Paul Jaffe, who represents the churches. “It reflects a deeply-held fundamental tenet of their faith.” Inside, he told Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson the public health orders, as they relate to religious groups, are “arbitrary, overbroad and disproportionate.”

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