{"id":61467,"date":"2012-04-10T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patrimoine-religieux.qc.ca\/a-sector-in-danger\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:29:09","slug":"what-is-happening-to-our-changing-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrimoine-religieux.qc.ca\/en\/what-is-happening-to-our-changing-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Happening to Our Changing Churches?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nearly ten years after completion of the vast inventory of places of worship in Quebec, the question of the status of churches and chapels is acute: what is happening to this religious heritage increasingly abandoned by the\u00a0cult?<\/p>\n

In this document, the Qu\u00e9bec Religious Heritage Council has\u00a0 made a provisional assessment of the situation, which for the first time provides a comprehensive overview of the situation in Quebec.<\/p>\n

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