Persecution: UK Pastor Convicted, Punished for Reading John 3:16, Preaching in Public Space

Persecution: UK Pastor Convicted, Punished for Reading John 3:16, Preaching in Public Space


The United Kingdom continues course in their quest to obliterate any remnants of freedom of speech for a people that once loved Christ.

Retired Pastor Clive Johnston was convicted of breaching a “safe access zone” outside Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, on July 7, 2024, under the Abortion Services Act of 2023.

Per Fox News, this law uses sweeping language to guard women seeking abortions. “Northern Ireland’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act prohibits ‘influencing,’ ‘preventing or impeding access,’ or ‘causing harassment, alarm or distress’ to a protected person within 100 meters (about 328 feet) of facilities where abortions are performed,” the outlet reported.

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Johnston was said to be “influencing” inside one of these zones, but he did not even mention abortion. He was reading John 3:16.

“It effectively redefines peaceful Christian witness as a form of unlawful ‘influence,’” he described to Fox News.

“If simply reading the Bible,

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