Canadian churches faced new restrictions as public health officials tried to contain a post-holiday surge of COVID-19.

Canadian churches faced new restrictions as public health officials tried to contain a post-holiday surge of COVID-19.
A new law in Quebec prohibits the wearing of religious symbols or clothing by some government employees, including public school teachers, state lawyers, judges and police officers.
Québec, a flourishing Catholic region for centuries, is now Catholicism’s empty quarter in the western hemisphere. There is no more religiously arid place between the North Pole and Tierra del Fuego; there may be no more religiously arid place on the planet. And it all happened in the blink of an eye.