Canada
Scouts Canada and Girl Guides of Canada offer the Religion in Life badge. Different faiths develop their own programs which are approved by Scouts Canada (which also administers the program for Girl Guides of Canada).
Each program has multiple age stages and a badge can be earned for each stage with the border color indicating the stage. The emblem on the badge indicates which faith.
- Stage 1 - Ages 7–9 - yellow border
- Stage 2 - Ages 10–12 - green border
- Stage 3 - Ages 13–15 - blue border
- Stage 4 - Ages 15 and up - red border
- Stage 5 - adult - purple border
Currently recognized programs are
- Anglican Church of Canada
- Apostolic Church of the Pentecost
- Canadian Baptist Ministries
- Canadian Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches
- Canadian Armed Forces (Protestant)
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
- Christian Science
- Church of the Nazarene
- Congregational Christian Church of Canada
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Evangelical Church of Canada
- Free Methodist Church of Canada
- Lutheran Churches of Canada
- Moravian Church of Canada
- Orthodox Church
- Pentecostal Assemblies
- Polish National Catholic Church of Canada
- Presbyterian Church in Canada
- Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- Roman Catholic Church in Canada
- Salvation Army
- The Standard Church
- United Church of Canada
The above all have the same badge of a circle around a Greek alpha and omega. The following all have different badges.
- Bahá’í Faith - nine pointed star
- Buddhist Faith - wheel of the law
- Canadian Unitarian Council - flaming chalice
- Hindu - om
- Islam in Canada - Allah in Arabic above a crescent moon and star above Allah in English
- Jewish Religion - Menorah
- Sikh - Khanda
- Zoroastrianism - Fravashi
Read more about this topic: Religious Emblems Programs
Famous quotes containing the word canada:
“I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)
“What makes the United States government, on the whole, more tolerable—I mean for us lucky white men—is the fact that there is so much less of government with us.... But in Canada you are reminded of the government every day. It parades itself before you. It is not content to be the servant, but will be the master; and every day it goes out to the Plains of Abraham or to the Champs de Mars and exhibits itself and toots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)