WINNIPEG A constitutional challenge calling on the courts to strike down parts of the province’s public health act is back on the docket Monday. The challenge was launched by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms on behalf of seven Manitoba churches, a minister, a deacon and a man who was fined for attending an anti-lockdown rally in Steinbach. It will focus on the justification of the province’s lockdown measures. The centre argues Manitoba’s lockdown measures are unjustified and violate some charter-protected freedoms like religion, expression and peaceful assembly. The centre’s lawyers also argue the province failed to consider the societal consequences the lockdown measures brought about.
1 May 2021
A judge in Woolwich Township in Ontario, Canada, has ordered parishioners at Trinity Bible Chapel to be locked out of the church to prevent Sunday worship services.
Judge John Krawchenko ruled on Friday that the church, its pastors, and elders were in contempt of prior court orders to halt in-person worship by gathering as the church last Sunday.
A judge has just ordered to lock Trinity Bible Chapel s doors this Sunday to prevent us from gathering to worship Jesus. Unprecedented.
A sad day for Ontario.
The
Toronto Starreported on the development:
“The court granted interim relief in the form of an Order directing the Sheriff to lock the doors of the Church on a time limited basis,” Ministry of the Attorney General spokesperson Brian Gray said in an email. “The doors are ordered to be locked, before midnight May 1, 2021, for one week.” Next week, the matter returns to court “to speak to continuation or variance of the Order if appropriate,” Gray said.
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You likely remember Art Pawlowski, the pastor of the Cave of Adullam in Calgary, Alberta. Police showed up to shut down his service during Holy Week in the days leading up to Easter weekend earlier this month. Pastor Pawlowski gained fame after he sent the officers on their way with some choice language, ordering them to come back with a warrant if they dared show up again. Well, they have their warrant, and it informs police to be ready to arrest the pastor using anything necessary, according to Rebel News.
As Townhall reported about the initial incident:
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A Saskatoon church that was fined $14,000 for allegedly exceeding the worship services gathering limit has posted notices warning police and government officials against trespassing.
Fellowship Baptist Church on Taylor Street south of Aden Bowman Collegiate was issued the fine March 11, but the fine was omitted from the province’s daily COVID-19 update by mistake, the Ministry of Health explained in an email.
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The “no trespassing” notices posted on Fellowship’s entrances names police or “any other party acting on behalf of the government” without permission or a search warrant.
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A Saskatoon church that was fined $14,000 for allegedly exceeding the worship services gathering limit has posted notices warning police and government officials against trespassing.
Fellowship Baptist Church on Taylor Street south of Aden Bowman Collegiate was issued the fine March 11, but the fine was omitted from the province’s daily COVID-19 update by mistake, the Ministry of Health explained in an email.
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The “no trespassing” notices posted on Fellowship’s entrances names police or “any other party acting on behalf of the government” without permission or a search warrant.