Praising Christ under the palapas of a tiki bar in Florida
Pastor Steve Irwin immersed young Julia in the Gulf of Mexico and thereby baptized her. The young woman and her entire family came from Birmingham, Alabama, to join the ranks of the church on the beach at Woodlawn Church. (Pascale Lévesque/Le Soleil)
It’s half past midnight on Sunday at Sharky’s tiki bar in Panama City Beach, the beating heart of Florida’s Redneck Riviera. The last customers, tipsy, stagger towards the exit. It’s hard to believe that in less than eight hours, this place will be transformed into a place of worship where 500 faithful will come to sing and praise Christ. Pascale Lévesque was there.
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Quebec francization centers closed to new students
Annual funding for francization programs is usually based on data from the previous two years. But this time, the Legault government is instead relying on the figures for 2020 and 2021, pandemic years when demand was lower than currently.
(Frédéric Matte/Archives Le Soleil)
No beginners will be admitted to the three francization centers in Quebec for the next session. The doors could even remain closed to new, novice Miron language students until the end of the school year in June. Information from Olivier Bossé.
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Francine Ruel: an absent father to reimagine
After her courageous mother who raised her five daughters alone in My mother is a flamingo in 2013, then the story of his drug addict and itinerant son in the touching Anna and the child-old man published in 2019, the novelist Francine Ruel tackles, in My father is a carrier pigeon which appears today, to the story of her father whom she knew little since he left his family and almost never gave any sign of life again. Ian Bussières met her.
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