Memorial Mass for Lapu Lapu Victims as Anniversary of Vancouver Attack Nears

Victim of the Lapu Lapu day festival tragedy, AJ Sico (L), and his mother Jhosie Sico hold hands before a memorial mass at St. Andrew Parish church in Vancouver, on April 10, 2026. The Canadian Press/Ethan Cairns

Rev. Salvador Reyes says he is remembering the Lapu Lapu Day attack that claimed 11 lives in Vancouver not just with pain, but with love.

Reyes said in a sermon at a mass to mark the approaching anniversary of the attack that he visited the memorial to victims at Mountainview Cemetery earlier on Friday, passing the East Vancouver street where the car-ramming attack took place.