Iranian memorial in Prince George

An Iranian memorial was held on February 7th, 2026,

at St. Michael and All Angels, Prince George.

"Friends, you are all warmly welcome to St, Michael and All Angels for this Memorial.

In this Sacred space, we are gathered in grief, to honour the many thousands of people who have been recently murdered by the Islamic Regime. They are the ones who have paid the ultimate price in their struggle to be free.

As a holy place, we strive to leave our politics outside the door and we bring inside, all our deeply felt human emotions ; grief, pain, love, hate, anger, confusion and despair.

We bring in the whole of our humanity, and we place ourselves into the loving hands of the Creator of the Universe. Our compassionate God has the capacity to tenderly safeguard all of our strongest emotions be they positive or negative.

Whether we are Christian, Baha’i, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, or of no faith; by birth we are all children of the God of Love; and as such we belong to one another in an inseparable familial bond. We are called on, to take care of one another. 1Corinthians 12:26 When one (family) member suffers, all suffer together.

We are gathered to honour and pray for all those who have died recently and over the past 47 years; for all who have been seriously injured, tortured or imprisoned unjustly, and for those who have had to leave their country and loved ones behind, to find a future of freedom for themselves.

Hopefully a poem, by the great 14th century Persian poet Hafez will bring us some comfort,

HAFEZ wrote…..

“I once asked a bird,

how is it that you fly

in this gravity of darkness?

The bird responded,

Love lifts me up.”

So, when you leave this sacred space, please give your sisters and brothers around you two simple gifts;

The gift of Love and the gift of hope.