by CCRL | Nov 23, 2021 | Issues, Media Watch, News
Toronto, ON November 23, 2021 – The CCRL has launched a Church Attacks Database, accessible from www.ccrl.ca which catalogues attacks against Catholic churches in Canada ranging from the breaking of stained-glass windows, to acts of desecration and church burnings,...
by CCRL | Jul 30, 2021 | Issues, Media Watch, News
Toronto, ON July 30, 2021 – On June 22, the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) decried the burning down of two Catholic Churches in British Columbia on June 21, National Indigenous People’s Day. On July 1, Canada Day, the League issued another press release Burning...
by CCRL | Jul 1, 2021 | Issues, News
Toronto, ON July 1, 2021 – On June 22, the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) decried the burning down of two Catholic Churches in British Columbia on June 21, National Indigenous People’s Day. In less than ten days, two more churches in BC have been attacked in...
by CCRL | Jun 22, 2021 | Issues, News
Toronto, ON June 22, 2021 – The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) laments the loss of two century old Catholic churches in the Okanagan region of British Colombia, destroyed by suspected arson in the early morning of June 21. The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL)...
by CCRL | May 25, 2021 | Issues, News
Toronto, ON May 25, 2021 – The CCRL welcomes the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) granting St. Mary Cathedral’s appeal, released on Friday, May 21. The litigation arose after a difficult pastoral decision made by the Archbishop in order to...
by CCRL | Apr 1, 2021 | Events, Issues, News
Toronto, ON April 1, 2021 – Last year in our Holy Week message of 2020 we at the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) asked our supporters and friends to place crucifixes in their windows and on their front porches to demonstrate a public witness to our faith from Holy...