Vicar pleads not guilty to blocking road and says her Christian faith made her do it As His follower, I must also be prepared, in some small way, to lay down my life to save the lives of others
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A 78-year-old vicar has pleaded ‘not guilty’ to a charge of obstruction after she was arrested trying to stop people going to work at the Ministry of Defence headquarters at Abbey Wood, in Bristol.
Rev Sue Parfitt said her Christian faith drove her to sit in the road and lock arms with a fellow campaigner on December 11 last year, in a protest about the Ministry of Defence’s contribution to the climate change, carbon emissions and the ‘catastrophic climate emergency we face’.
Christian climate activists mount guerrilla poster campaign CHRISTIAN CLIMATE ACTION
Richmond upon Thames, Outer London. See gallery for more images
POSTERS linking Christ’s birth with the climate emergency have been springing up all over the country.
They are the work of members of Christian Climate Action, the Christian arm of Extinction Rebellion. The posters have been put up in bus stops and over the top of other advertising. They depict a manger scene, and say: “A child is born. What kind of future do we want for our children? Will you talk about climate action with your family this Christmas?”
Extinction Rebellion blockade leads to arrests at MoD Abbey Wood in Bristol - as it happened
Protesters from XR and Christian Climate Action have descended on the Ministry of Defence base this morning
Protesters from Extinction Rebellion Bristol and Christian Climate Action blocked access to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) site at Abbey Wood near Bristol this morning (Friday, December 12).
The blockade was intended to draw attention to what the protestors describe as the government’s “dangerously inadequate response” to the climate emergency.
Protestors arrived at around 7am and prevented entry to three access roads to the building with a blockade.