Faith in Faithless Times

By Siby Varghese

April 1, 2016

Siby Varghese grew up in Saudi Arabia and India, experiencing first hand what it was like to have limits to freedom of religion. When he moved to Canada in 2011, he was shocked to see just how many Canadians didn't excersize their right to worship freely in public. Read his story here. 

Having spent my early years in Saudi Arabia and then India, where religion is part of the everyday fabric of society, it never occurred to me that in other parts of the world, religion could have a diminished public role But, even more so to redefine religion as a solely private pursuit is to reduce the social, public relevance of faith

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