Posted on 04/09/07
Quebec Mennonites moving to Ontario for faith-based teaching
TORONTO -- Keith Wedel is uprooting his family today and moving them to a new province so his children can have the religious education he wants for them.The pastor of a Mennonite Church in Roxton Falls, a small town in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, will make the 21/2-hour drive across the provincial boundary to the Ontario town of Alexandria. There, thanks to different laws, he will have more freedom to provide his children with an education - including a biblical account of creation - in a private Mennonite school staffed by Mennonite teachers.
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