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The government of Quebec has just published a major report on “secularism” (Pour une laïcité québécoise encore plus cohérente: bilan et perspectives, August 2025--French only). It is essentially a 288-page plan to push religion further out of public life, with recommendations that could directly affect pro-life, pro-family, and Christian organizations.

Highlights:

• Abortion is explicitly addressed in several places. The term “anti-choice” (that is, “anti-choice-to-kill-your-unborn-child,” in other words pro-life) appears seven times in the document. On page 11, it even recommends “cutting off funding” for pro-life groups. It should be noted that Quebec Life Coalition (mentioned twice in the report, on page 193) has never received government funding, being in open opposition to the pro-abortion, secularist regime. What is really being targeted here are community-based pro-life organizations, such as pregnancy help centers or the Knights of Columbus, explicitly mentioned on page 192 of the report.
• Religious conscience rights will have less and less protection in health care, education, and the public service. Pro-life and Christian groups in Quebec will likely face increasing financial and legal pressure as religion is gradually pushed out of public funding and public visibility.
• Expanded ban on religious symbols: Beyond teachers and other authority figures, educators in daycares and subsidized childcare would be prohibited from wearing visible religious symbols.
• End of prayer rooms: CEGEPs and universities would no longer be able to set aside prayer rooms for students.
• Municipal control of public prayer: Cities would gain new powers to restrict or regulate prayer gatherings in public spaces (e.g., street prayers, vigils).
• Tightening of religious accommodations: Requests for schedule changes or exceptions for religious reasons could be refused much more easily.
• Cutting off funding: The government would gradually abolish tax exemptions and public subsidies for religious organizations, including schools and charities, unless they “secularize.”
• Defunding religious schools: Private religious schools would lose public funding unless they renounce their religious character.

And perhaps the most troubling, because it targets our children:

• New “right to secularism”: Every state employee would have the “right” to a secular workplace—thus opening the door to complaints whenever religion manifests itself in any form—and every child would now have the “right” to a secular education. But then, if every child in Quebec has this “right,” what happens if their parents are “terrible far-right religious extremists”—say, simply sincere pro-life Christians? Will child protection services have to intervene? Will homes be monitored to ensure no crucifix or statue of a saint enters the field of vision of these “poor children”? And what about regular attendance at Mass? If this right is taken literally, should we conclude that minors could no longer be admitted to religious worship, and that parents would be forbidden to initiate their children into their faith before reaching the “age of reason”? Asking the question is answering it.

This is nothing less than an explicit exclusion of religion and traditional morality from Quebec’s institutions and public (and eventually private) life.

At Quebec Life Coalition, we had already raised the alarm months ago—first with our petition against banning public prayer in Quebec (over 13,000 signatures), then with our Open Letter to JD Vance (and the accompanying report) on the repression of pro-life and Christian speech in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada. Now, with this report, the Quebec government is stepping on the gas.

Forget the pretty words “secularism” or “neutrality.” I now call it by its real name: State atheism. Every religion, including Christianity—the faith that founded and nourished Quebec for centuries—is now suspect. Parents who teach the faith to their children are suspect. Faith-based schools are suspect and cannot count on the Quebec state.

This, my friends, is persecution. And we must respond.

A few years ago, when the Quebec regime used covid as a pretext to close churches (while keeping pot shops and Costco open), Quebec Life Coalition joined a worldwide campaign of prayer against lockdowns and church closures, which we called locally Le Québec prie (Quebec Prays).

Today, another kind of lockdown is being prepared: not the closing of churches, but the locking down of society itself, by branding religion as a “disease” to be eradicated, and believers as “contaminated” to be quarantined.

That is why we are relaunching Le Québec prie:

Every Wednesday at 6 pm, Christians across Quebec are invited to gather in groups throughout the province to pray the Rosary publicly. We will not be driven from the public square like lepers!

To find a prayer group near you (they exist worldwide, including in Canada), visit: https://public-rosary.org/

There are also Telegram groups: for Canada https://t.me/CanadaPrays, and for Quebec https://t.me/lequebecprie.

Join a Le Québec prie group today to call on Heaven’s help to push back against Quebec’s pro-abortion State atheism.

(Photo: a Quebec Prays group in Beaumont, 2022.)

Keep Promoting Our Petition for Post-Abortion Support

The secularism (State atheism) report shows that Quebec’s pro-abortion regime hates that we speak about the harmful effects of abortion on women, falsely claiming that we spread “fake news.” Please keep promoting our petition for recognition in Quebec of post-abortion syndrome and for the creation of a real support program for women in distress. This psychological wound—very real—is still being ignored by our leaders and their compliant media.

👉 Sign the petition here
📄  Read the full supporting report here

Thank you for your continued support!

For Life,


Georges Buscemi
President, Quebec Life Coalition

40 Days for Life in Sherbrooke, Qc — September 24th-November 2nd

The 40 Days for Life consists of 40 days and 12 hours per day of sidewalk vigils, usually in the vicinity of an abortion facility, to witness on behalf of the unborn child to passers-by and to offer help to women who are considering aborting their babies. The 40 Days begins on September 24th and ends on November 2nd. More details to come.

For more information or to register, contact Brian Jenkins at (438) 930-8643.