Northern Ireland finds pastor guilty for holding short Sunday service too close to abortion clinic

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In March 2025, we told you about Clive Johnston, a retired Baptist pastor who was charged in Northern Ireland for preaching the gospel too close to an abortion clinic.

He was just found guilty of preaching a sermon that never even mentioned abortion in a park that was just a little too close to an abortion mill.

The United Kingdom will make sure to keep the proclamation of truth at least 100 meters away from all altars of Molech!

Here's the BBC on the verdict:

A retired pastor has said it is a 'very dark day for Christian freedom' after being found guilty of breaching abortion buffer zone laws by preaching biblical verses near a hospital ...

Johnston was convicted of doing an act in a safe access zone with the intent of or being reckless as to whether it had the effect of influencing a protected person attending the premises. He has been fined £450.

He was also found guilty of failing to comply with a direction to leave a safe access zone.

The court was told that at least one protected person was attending the hospital on the day.

"Protected person" refers to a mother with the desire to kill their child. Apparently John 3:16 within earshot was too offensive?

The Abortion Services Act of 2023 made it illegal to pray, preach, or attempt to interfere with women going into clinics to kill their children. Opponents were worried that the law was worded so vaguely that anyone could be arrested for saying anything that the authorities deem thoughtcrime.

Here's Pastor Johnson on his conviction and £450 fine:

And more from Ciarán Kelly, the Director of the Christian Institute, who represented Johnson in court:

The UK has charged numerous Christians for praying near abortion clinics, even silently in their own heads, in just the past few years.

Only the God that Great Britain now hates can save her from ruin.


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