Canadian Armed Forces prayer ban

McCaig urges government to go ‘back to the drawing board’ on military prayer rules

Bishop says government ‘refused’ dialogue

Paul Schratz · August 24, 2026

Canadian military Bishop Scott McCaig says he wants the federal government to go “back to the drawing board” with its new policy on prayer in official settings.

Editorial

Freedom denied

August 22, 2026

Doubtless according to plan, bureaucratic banishment of public prayer by Canada’s military chaplains went virtually unnoticed amid the perpetual media crisis that filters into Canadian summer consciousness.

How Bubble Bureaucrats ban Christian prayer

Joseph Woodard · August 21, 2026

While completing my last term as a citizenship judge in 2018, I got an email from Ottawa with the directive: “Every citizenship ceremony will (now) be opened by a First Nations Elder, offering a Native Spirituality Prayer.”

Descending from ambiguity to incoherence

Moral vision needed

Quinton Peralta-Greenough · August 19, 2026

Despite the calls of several Conservative Members of Parliament, including Andrew Lawton, new military personnel instructions from the current Liberal government are not novel attacks on religious freedom.