VANCOUVER -- Three Christian churches are appealing a B.C. Supreme Court judge������Ƶapp ruling in favour of the prohibition on in-person religious gatherings in this province.

The day Presentation Manor went into lockdown for COVID-19 was Charles Hendrick������Ƶapp birthday, but he wasn’t there to celebrate. He had died the previous October of pancreatic cancer.

MOUNT OF BEATITUDES, Israel -- The palm tree fronds in the convent garden of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary rustle loudly in the brisk wind of an early spring dust storm, but, stepping into the chapel of the Church of the Beatitudes, there is silence.

Think back a year ago … to an Easter Sunday that reverberated with fear and anxiety as the world������Ƶapp people tried to grasp the enormity of COVID-19.

VANCOUVER -- B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson has upheld the public health order banning in-person religious services in British Columbia.

Restrictions on places of worship in grey lockdown zones will be loosened and churches will be able to host services with up to 15 per cent of their capacity as of March 15.

Toronto������Ƶapp Cardinal Thomas Collins is sending a clear message to Queen������Ƶapp Park: It������Ƶapp time for a “fair and equitable approach to the return to worship.”

As Quebec movie theatres welcome up to 250 patrons as pandemic protocols begin to loosen, churches remain limited to only 10 people — including the presiding priest — at worship services.

VATICAN CITY -- For believers, the ability to practice their faith and receive spiritual guidance are "the highest of essential services," and pandemic practices over the past year have shown they are not automatically super-spreader events, the Vatican foreign minister said.

VATICAN CITY -- Two days after the Iraqi government announced stringent COVID-19 precautions, including the closure of mosques and churches “until further notice,” the prime minister met with the Vatican nuncio to discuss preparations for the scheduled visit of Pope Francis.