The Basilica Heritage Foundation has been formed to raise money to purchase the properties in the hopes that the site will still be used for Catholics, rather than be sold to secular organizations.
A total of 24 COVID tickets totaling $55,200 were recently dropped by the authorities, after they had been handed to three pastors of churches in British Columbia.
‘The obligation for Catholics to celebrate Sunday as a Holy Day by gathering together for Mass will be restored from the First Sunday in Lent, Sunday 6th March,” Bishop Hugh Gilbert announced.
‘WELCOME TO CANADA, WHERE THEY PADLOCK THE CHURCH ON THANKSGIVING,’ pastor Phil Hutchings wrote after his associate’s arrest on Thanksgiving for allegedly violating strict COVID measures.
Archbishop Kikuchi's July 12 directive asked athletes and any visitors to Tokyo to stay away from Catholic churches, referencing the 'important duty' of protecting those who 'have received God's gift of life.'