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Six people, including one from London, face new charges in connection with a large service at Aylmer’s Church of God on Sunday, the town’s police said Tuesday.
Officers responded to the John St. North church about 10:30 a.m. Sunday after receiving more than a dozen complaints about the service.
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A “large number of participants” entered the church for the service in direct violation of COVID-19 rules set by the province that cap religious services at 10 people, police said.
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LONDON, ONT. Despite new provincial regulations surrounding attendance limits on religious services, Aylmer s controversial Church of God held a defiant service, Sunday morning. It was April 16 when Premier Doug Ford announced indoor religious services must be capped to a maximum of ten people. This was the first Sunday where the new rules took effect. While many church pastors in London Ont., chose to forgo indoor services all together during lockdown, The Church of God had some of its biggest numbers of attendees yet. Dozens of people were inside the church, without masks and sitting or standing close together. Roughly 200 cars were seen in the parking lot.
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AYLMER, ONT. The Aylmer Police Service has laid charges after an investigation into a reported gathering at the Church of God Restoration (COGR) Tuesday evening. Police said they received a public complaint about a large gathering at the church around 8:20 p.m. Aylmer Police Chief Zvonko Horvat says officers responded and observed 18 vehicles parked in the lot. “Those that were in the church came outside. That’s when the officers engaged those that were inside and issued four provincial offence notices.” According to police, none of the 18 individuals were practicing social distancing. The four people charged face counts under the Reopening Ontario Act for individual – fail to comply with a continued section 7.0.2 order.