In images, you would only expect to see in Communist China, Christians in the Canadian province of Alberta tried tearing down barricades that the police had put up around GraceLife church in Spruce Grove, AB to prevent people from attending this week’s Sunday service (April 11, 2021).
The church, that also had its pastor jailed for 35 days, has been holding services in defiance of the province’s lockdown that limits services to just 15% of capacity.
The RCMP, who were just obeying orders, responded by sending in dozens of police to rebuild the barricade.
The Blaze explains:
Hundreds of Canadian Christians gathered on Sunday at the GraceLife Church in Edmonton, Alberta. Government officials shut down the church for allegedly violating public COVID-19 health orders. Authorities erected a chain-link fence to prevent the house of worship from reopening last week. On Sunday, worshippers tore down the barricade, but were quickly met by a large contingent of riot police.
Alberta Health Services physically closed the GraceLife Church, preventing access to the building. AHS said the church would remain closed until the GraceLife Church “can demonstrate the ability to comply with Alberta’s chief medical officer of health’s restrictions.” The Royal Canadian Mounted Police even closed off the access roads in front of the church to the public.
Approximately 400 people gathered outside the church on Sunday, according to the Edmonton Journal. The Christians were not able to get inside the church, so they sang hymns and listened to Bible readings outside the building.
Lawyers with the Justice Centre, a non-profit legal organization, that has been representing the church in its fight against the government, has repeatedly asked the province’s health department for its evidence that lockdowns actually work. To this point health officials have refused to provide the scientific evidence or as most suspect, likely do not have any.
In fact, the science says that lockdowns don’t work:
READ: Blue States’ COVID Restrictions Are Killing Jobs, But Not The Virus
READ: Lockdowns Not Linked With Lower COVID Death Rates, New Study Finds
READ: New study: Coronavirus lockdowns don’t save lives
READ: COVID-19 death rate is 75% lower in states that didn’t lock down: WSJ
READ: The Results of Europe’s Lockdown Experiment Are In
READ: COVID Lockdowns Have No Clear Benefit vs Other Voluntary Measures, International Study Shows
READ: California Has the Strictest Lockdown in the US—and the Most Active COVID Cases (by Far)
READ: Britain Leads the World: Harshest Lockdown in West, But Significant Death Rates
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