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Public Health says officials and religious leaders are partnering together in hopes of reducing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. We are trying very hard to reach out from the government perspective, but also from more local, trusted leaders, Dr. Joss Reimer, medical lead of Manitoba s Vaccination Task Force, says in a Wednesday press conference. We hear a lot about the different questions that people have or concerns that they have, that are not consistent with the science, but make people feel anxious, nonetheless.
During the conference, Reimer said that Mennonites in southern Manitoba particularly have less trust in the vaccine.
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MEMBERS of a Winnipeg Mennonite church are inviting other faith groups to join them as they call for a halt to the Line 3 pipeline construction through Indigenous territory in Minnesota.
MEMBERS of a Winnipeg Mennonite church are inviting other faith groups to join them as they call for a halt to the Line 3 pipeline construction through Indigenous territory in Minnesota.
The invitation was made by a group of 10 people from Hope Mennonite Church, Mennonite Church Manitoba congregation.
They are asking people to send a letter to TD Bank, one of the main financiers behind the Enbridge-owned pipeline, to warn about the environmental danger the pipeline poses and call attention to the violation of treaty rights of Indigenous groups.
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Critics of Manitoba s pandemic restrictions rallied outside the Winnipeg Law Courts on Monday afternoon, the first day of a hearing in a legal challenge of Manitoba s pandemic health restrictions.(Cameron Macintosh/CBC)
As a group of seven churches are challenging Manitoba s public health restrictions in court this week, saying they violate religious freedoms, many faith leaders are pushing back at that notion, saying they don t feel the same way. I ve heard a lot of other fellow Christians say that this doesn t really represent most of us in Manitoba, and most of us in southern Manitoba, in terms of how we feel about these things, said Michael Pahl, executive minister of Mennonite Church Manitoba, an association of more than 30 congregations.
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A former church minister in Morden is pushing back on churches arguing for freedom from COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
A former church minister in Morden is pushing back on churches arguing for freedom from COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
In a series of tweets sent out Monday, Michael Pahl, executive minister for Mennonite Church Manitoba, called on Christians in his southern Manitoba community to continue to follow public health orders, as a way to show love for their neighbours.
Unlike what some churches are claiming in a Winnipeg courtroom this week, about how their freedoms are being restricted through limits on in-person gatherings, I can freely proclaim and live out the good news of Jesus, of God’s reign of love and justice and peace come near, Pahl posted on Twitter.