{"id":1920,"date":"2026-03-17T14:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:52:13","slug":"safer-places-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1920","title":{"rendered":"Safer Places of Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Noon-9-March-2026-resized.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Noon-9-March-2026-resized-1024x680.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Noon-9-March-2026-resized-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Noon-9-March-2026-resized-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Noon-9-March-2026-resized-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Noon-9-March-2026-resized-452x300.png 452w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Noon-9-March-2026-resized.png 1144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On <strong>March 9, 2026, an announcement was made at the BC Legislature<\/strong> by Premier Eby, Attorney-General Niki Sharma and Minister of Education Lisa Beare, with faith leaders in attendance. Students, educators and people attending faith services will soon see stronger protections that help ensure public spaces remain safe and respectful, with proposed laws extending safe\u2011access zones at schools and establishing new ones at places of worship. Learn more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gov.bc.ca\/33444\">news.gov.bc.ca\/33444<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 9, 2026, an announcement was made at the BC Legislature by Premier Eby, Attorney-General Niki Sharma and Minister of Education Lisa Beare, with faith leaders in attendance. Students, educators and people attending faith services will soon see stronger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}