U.S. Senator Requests Canada Investigated for Religious Freedom Violations over Alberta Pastors Arrests
(Global News) A U.S. senator has asked that Canada be investigated for violating religious freedom over the arrests of Alberta pastors accused of flouting COVID-19 restrictions.
In a letter released Thursday, Missouri Republican Josh Hawley asked his country’s Commission on International Religious Freedom to consider putting Canada on its special watch list.
“I am troubled that our Canadian neighbours are effectively being forced to gather in secret, undisclosed locations to exercise their basic freedom to worship,” Hawley wrote.
“Frankly, I would expect this sort of religious crackdown in Communist China, not in a prominent western nation like Canada.”
Hawley refers in his letter to the arrests of Alberta pastors James Coates and Tim Stephens.
Coates spent a month…
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There’s apparently at least one moral and intelligent man governing us, thank God.
This is awesome! Hold Canada accountable!
The pandemic is over anyways, look at the weekly deaths listed by the CDC.