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A Canadian pastor remained behind bars Friday after holding church services in violation of COVID-19 public health orders.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police said pastor James Coates of the GraceLife Church in Edmonton, Alberta, was arrested after police and public health officials visited the church on Sunday and observed violations of the Public Health Act, which says the church cannot be at more than 15% capacity and congregants must physically distance and wear masks.

Mr. Coates had previously been charged on Feb. 8 with violating the order and was served an undertaking with conditions to comply, the CBC reported. He turned himself over to the police on Tuesday and is charged with two counts of contravening the Public Health Act and on one criminal charge for failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking.

A Canadian pastor remained behind bars Friday after holding church services in violation of COVID-19 public health orders. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said pastor James Coates of the GraceLife Church in Edmonton, Alberta, was arrested after police and public health officials visited the church on Sunday and observed violations of the Public Health Act, which says the church cannot be at more than 15% capacity and congregants must physically distance and wear masks. Mr. Coates had previously been charged on Feb. 8 with violating the order and was served an undertaking with conditions to comply, the CBC reported. He turned himself over to the police on Tuesday and is charged with two counts of contravening the Public Health Act and on one criminal charge for failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking.

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[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Not to deny your claim that Christianity is being persecuted, but right now any gathering is getting shut down. It's the whole intended point of the lockdown, to prevent the meeting of malcontents in private, and to force all dissident communication onto the internet where it could be monitored and interfered with easier. Those meetup threads were the thing that scared the jews so much, no wonder they all got such an immediate response of "fed honeypot" accusations.

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Interesting thought. Personally I think the satanic leadership is shutting down churches thinking they can win over God. God's children have been persecuted since the beginning. Satan loses.

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Satan works for God, it's stated that Satan is an agent of God who's job is to test the faith of men by tempting them to sin. If Satan loses that means that God lost, since they are on the same side.

Whites have been persecuted from the beginning, but most of them weren't Christian or Jewish, they were pagans, like the Egyptians, Sumerians, Persians, etc.

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Where is it stated that Satan is an agent of God?

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Wow... These myths and ignorance-based explanations for man's evil are so Middle Age.