A Manitoba church that was fined for holding Sunday service despite bans on religious gatherings in the province, says it plans to continue church services this weekend because spiritual support should be considered “essential.”
The Church of God Restoration near Steinbach, Manitoba, was given a $5,000 ticket—the maximum allowed under the province’s public health act—after holding an in-person service days after the province had banned all faith-based gatherings amid a spike in COVID-19 cases.
