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Nineteen people with developmental disabilities and their assistants live in homes run by L’Arche Greater Vancouver, an organization founded on principles of intentional community and family-like living. When the COVID-19 … Continued
Project Advance is in its final push as 2020 comes to a close. In a year so unlike other years, the archdiocese’s main fundraising campaign has changed its goals from supporting capital projects … Continued
Grade 12 students Hannah Sergent and Bianka Kliman were so inspired by a film shown in their social justice class that they launched a fundraiser for refugees that collected $771 … Continued
With the pandemic competing with the Grinch to snuff out Christmas cheer this year, the Archdiocese of Vancouver wants to rewrite the ending of the Christmas 2020 story as one … Continued
About 150 Catholics gathered across from Holy Rosary Cathedral Sunday afternoon, praying for churches to re-open after the B.C. government suspended all religious services. Tim Bonner said he was disappointed … Continued
Although the COVID-19 pandemic is taking a financial toll on the Archdiocese of Vancouver at every level, with donations down and some parishes reducing staff, finance officials are also reporting … Continued
Mass attendance in the Archdiocese of Vancouver has plummeted by about 80 per cent since spring, when a 50-person limit was set on gatherings in B.C., a survey by The … Continued
This story was corrected to clarify churches were not closed by the government earlier in the year. The B.C. government has closed churches to public worship, just as local parishes … Continued
COVID-19 has hit Columbus Residence, a long-term care home on West 69th Avenue in Vancouver. An outbreak was declared on the second floor of the facility Nov. 13 and at … Continued
The Delta Hospice Society is considering taking its case to determine society membership to the Supreme Court of Canada after a dismissal by the B.C. Court of Appeal Nov. 13. … Continued