Posted: May 07, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 7
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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Tobias Tissen speaks at a protest supporting the seven churches fighting pandemic restrictions in court in front of the Law Courts in Winnipeg on Monday. (Winnipeg Free Press)
The Bible Baptist Church at 1203 Fourth St. in Brandon has been named as one of the churches in the provincial court case challenging provincial pandemic restrictions limiting their right to assembly.
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The Bible Baptist Church at 1203 Fourth St. in Brandon has been named as one of the churches in the provincial court case challenging provincial pandemic restrictions limiting their right to assembly.
Bible Baptist Church hosts Back the Blue event
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Bible Baptist Church of Crookston hosted a “Back the Blue” event April 18 for local law enforcement. Bible Baptist had this to say about the event: “The church believes that this is an important time to show our law enforcement officers and staff that they appreciate their service and their sacrifice. As the Bible says, we need to give “honor to whom honor” is due.”
The church served officers and their families from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office and the Crookston Police Department, including Sheriff James Tadman and Chief Paul Beirmeier, providing a special meal, along with a gift bag and commemorative coin for each officer. The church also gave away some bigger door prizes, including two shotguns and a new Blackstone griddle.
Posted: May 03, 2021 3:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 3
The Church of God Restoration in Manitoba, seen from above, on Nov. 22, 2020. The church and its pastor have been fined for breaking public health orders, including in December 2020, when more than 100 people attended a service while the area was in Code Red for having a COVID-19 test-positivity rate of 40 per cent.(Submitted)
Seven rural Manitoba churches hope to convince a judge that the province s lockdown measures are unjustified violations of Charter-protected freedoms of conscience, religion, expression and peaceful assembly and that the chief medical officer of health failed to consider the collateral social and health costs of locking down society.