‘It would be a shame’ if public prayer can’t continue in Quebec, Way of the Cross participants say

A day after Quebec passed its expanded secularism law banning collective public prayer, hundreds of people walked silently through the streets of Montreal to honour Jesus’s last day on Earth, as they do every Good Friday in a procession known as the Way of the Cross.

Both first-time and repeat participants said it would be unfair if such events couldn’t continue under the new law, which stipulates that collective public prayer is only allowed if a permit is obtained from the municipality.