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.
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.
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Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief public health officer, does not receive a ministerial ‘rubber stamp’ on lockdown measures, the province’s lawyer says. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Seven Manitoba churches are back in court today in their legal fight over the province’s right to impose pandemic restrictions on them.
Seven Manitoba churches are back in court today in their legal fight over the province’s right to impose pandemic restrictions on them.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, a Calgary-based advocacy group, represents seven Manitoba churches in their fight against pandemic orders that restrict church gatherings: Gateway Bible Baptist Church, Pembina Valley Baptist Church, Redeeming Grace Bible Church, Grace Covenant Church, Slavic Baptist Church, Christian Church of Morden, and Bible Baptist Church. Three individual applicants on the
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Premier Brian Pallister speaks at an earlier press conference. (Screenshot: Manitoba Government/YouTube)
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A number of Manitoba churches are taking the province and Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin to court this week.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is representing a long list of churches in the lawsuit, which includes Gateway Bible Baptist Church, Pembina Valley Baptist Church, Redeeming Grace Bible Church, Grace Covenant Church, Slavic Baptist Church, Christian Church of Morden, Bible Baptist Church. A church minister, a deacon, the owners of a restaurant in Winkler, Manitoba, and an individual fined for attending a rally in Steinbach, Man. have also joined the suit.