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Duo charged after large outdoor service at locked-up Church of God
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Duo charged after large outdoor service at locked-up Church of God
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Publishing date: May 14, 2021 • 28 minutes ago • 5 minute read • Henry Hildebrandt, pastor of the Church of God in Aylmer, leaves the church after attending it for about two hours with dozens of congregation members on Thursday May 13, 2021. They were there as a judge in nearby St. Thomas began deliberating whether to padlock the church as it continues to hold Sunday services in breach of Ontario s laws that limit gatherings to slow COVID-19 s spread. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press)
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The doors of Aylmer’s Church of God are getting padlocks.
After weeks of flouting Ontario’s emergency public-health laws with far-too-large Sunday services, Superior Court Justice Bruce Thomas had little choice Friday but to order the controversial Elgin County church locked up until Ontario’s pandemic restrictions are loosened.
The church, Hildebrandt and Wall were found in contempt of court in April for defying a court order to stop in-person services to meet COVID-19 restrictions. The last few Sundays, the congregation inside the church numbered up to 200, with no one wearing a mask or following physical distancing rules.
Hildebrandt has broadcast his sermons on YouTube and Facebook in a public display of defiance, the judge said.
This location has been the crucible of the contemptuous activity. This place is part of the fabric of their lives, but these regulations were put in place to protect the community and to save lives.
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