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‘May God Help Us’: Ontario Christians Pray For Police As They Kick Them Out Of Church, Lock Doors

"Locking the doors of churches in Canada is a poignant symbol of our democracy under threat."

Jon Brown
‘May God Help Us’: Ontario Christians Pray For Police As They Kick Them Out Of Church, Lock Doors
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A group of Christians in Aylmer, Ontario, were forced to worship outside Sunday after police seized their building during a worship service, evicted them, and locked the doors last week.

Pastor Henry Hildebrandt of the Church of God in southwestern Ontario, most of whose congregants come from the Mennonite tradition, preached an open-air service after Ontario Superior Court Justice Bruce Thomas ordered their church facility locked until the provincial gathering limit for indoor church services increases to 30% capacity or more, according to CBC News.

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