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Aylmer police have charged the Church of God with breaching Ontario’s emergency COVID-19 rules, officials with the church say.
Controversial pastor Henry Hildebrandt livestreamed to Facebook from his home and church Wednesday evening, showing two Aylmer police officers trying to hand over a summons, the order for the Church of God to appear in provincial offences court next month.
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Police allege the Church of God violated the Reopening Ontario Act, the provincial rules governing the COVID-19 lockdown, by playing host to a public event that exceeded the permitted number of people. At the Dec. 27 worship service, “a large number of people” were outside their vehicles and sitting together, police say.