Over the course of the pandemic, we’ve heard about some of the people who refused to follow public health rules. There are the anti-maskers, the people who can’t seem to stay two meters apart from others and those that set up illegal gyms for their workouts.

And then there are the religious institutions. Public-health officials in Canada and the United States have intervened to shut down different religious groups that persisted in holding gatherings despite legal orders to ban them.

While a few pastors publicly repeated conspiracy theories about COVID-19, other pastors took a different approach. To engage with the skeptics in their congregations.

In today’s episode, the National Post’s Tyler Dawson takes a closer look at churches and COVID conspiracies.

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