The Pilgrim Church Council has suspended all on-site activities until further notice. This includes: Sunday worship services, Bible study, Lenten suppers and Vespers, church committee meetings, choir rehearsals, bell choir rehearsals, Sunday school, confirmation and other youth activities. Some activities are now being held online.

Pilgrim News Volume 68, № 3

In 2006 my daughter and I flew to Spain to attend a Buddhist Retreat in Pego. I learned that while we were in Pego Pablo Picasso’s famous painting Guernica would be on display at a museum in Madrid for the first time in more that 20 years. One of Picasso’s best-known works, Guernica is regarded by many art critics as one of the most moving and powerful anti-war paintings in history. Painted in 1937 it was representative of the Spanish Civil War which took place between 1936–1939. The painting has come to symbolize the clash between the ideologies of liberalism, socialism and communism versus conservatism, traditionalism and fascism. Spain at the dawn of the 20th Century was caught in a crisis of identity and purpose.