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People attend an outdoor worship service in May 2021 held at the Church of God of Aylmer in Ontario, Canada. | Herbert Hildebrandt
A Canadian congregation has been charged with violating lockdown rules when it held multiple outdoor worship services with more than 10 people in attendance after its church building was shut down by the government.Â
The Church of God in Aylmer, Ontario, held two services, one on May 16 and the other on May 23 attended by hundreds of people, that violated the Reopening Ontario Act because it exceeded the capacity limit.Â
Also known as the Roadmap to Reopen, Step 1 of the program involves allowing outdoor gatherings of no more than 10 people and non-essential retail being allowed at 15% capacity.
AYLMER, ONT. A local newspaper editor is speaking out after Aylmer police laid an assault charge against a 48-year-old man in connection with an altercation on Sunday. Brett Hueston says the man had crossed a public road in front of the controversial Church of God Restoration (COGR) in the town’s north end. Hueston was stationed there, not far from the police. It all happened minutes after the (COGR) held an indoor service. In a video posted to the church’s YouTube page, unmasked parishioners and visitors, including independent federal MP Derek Sloan and independent MPP Randy Hillier, could be seen at the front of the congregation.
AYLMER, ONT. The Aylmer Police Service has laid charges after an investigation into a reported gathering at the Church of God Restoration (COGR) Tuesday evening. Police said they received a public complaint about a large gathering at the church around 8:20 p.m. Aylmer Police Chief Zvonko Horvat says officers responded and observed 18 vehicles parked in the lot. “Those that were in the church came outside. That’s when the officers engaged those that were inside and issued four provincial offence notices.” According to police, none of the 18 individuals were practicing social distancing. The four people charged face counts under the Reopening Ontario Act for individual – fail to comply with a continued section 7.0.2 order.
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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.