It's Happening Across the World

May 5, 2020

"...it is very alarming, not only for your country but for the whole 'free' world." - A message from Australia lamenting America's church shutdowns.

Shutdown protests are taking place all over the world, but especially in former Soviet Eastern Bloc countries where people still remember the terrible consequences of letting governments trample individual freedom.

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Yesterday, we received an email from a reader in Queensland, Australia, asking for verification about the outrageous order against churches in Kansas City, Missouri.

The Mayor demanded churches record the names and contact information of everyone who attended a "religious gathering" so that the Kansas City Department of Public Health could "quickly trace, test, and isolate individuals." The reader was stunned that such a thing could happen here in America, but one line of the reader's email really struck home —

"... it is very alarming, not only for your country but for the whole 'free' world."

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In a subsequent email, I will share with you the good news. After we shined the light on this violation, yesterday, May 4, the Mayor reversed the order to make it voluntary for "religious gatherings."

Meanwhile, people around the globe have been uploading live footage of "COVID Shut Down Protests," because the mainstream media across the world is refusing to report these civil disobedience protests.

Mainstream media, including Fox News, is hiding from you that hundreds and hundreds of protests against draconian lockdowns have been happening for weeks around the world! What is perhaps MOST striking about these protests outside America is that, with the singular exception of Canada, these protests have been happening mainly in formerly oppressed areas like Soviet Eastern bloc countries, as well as currently oppressed places like Hong Kong and even Beirut, Lebanon.

In addition to the US protests happening in nearly every major state capital, the list of cities in foreign countries seeing large protests includes:

Poznan, Poland * Stuttgart, Germany * Munich, Germany * Berlin, Germany * Belgrade, Serbia * Kiev, Ukraine * Maribor, Slovenia * Ljubljana, Slovenia * Chayanda, Russia * Lagos, Nigeria * Brasilia, Brazil * Hong Kong * Hyderabad, India * Ontario, Canada * Alberta, Canada * Manitoba, Canada * Vancouver, Canada * Toronto, Canada, Tel Aviv, Israel * and even * Beirut, Lebanon

And no wonder, because these people know personally what happens when you allow a government to squash your right to attend church.

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These people have personally and in their own lifetimes, experienced the forced closure of churches. And as in Kansas City, MO, many of these former Soviet subjects have had their contact information "reported" to the government. These people have been "traced," "surveilled," and they have experienced neighbors, family and even their churches "turning them in" to authorities for refusing to comply with orders to abandon their faith.

Tyranny rarely starts with an iron fist, but instead with a velvet glove. Promises are made that the "new normal" will be even healthier, safer, more productive, and better than ever before. The people of Eastern bloc Europe can tell you personally how tyranny starts in tiny increments, like restricting your ability to go to church, "for a little while."

They can tell you how Bibles are restricted, then banned outright. (Have I mentioned that some local orders also demand Bibles be removed from any church that wants to hold limited services, under the guise that handling the Bibles might spread the virus?)

These former Soviet bloc protestors can also tell you what happens next — all religious freedom is eventually and permanently banned, and anyone who dares refuse is imprisoned, tortured, beaten, and even killed.

  • In Maine, where we will be filing suit today, people are banned from attending church.
  • In Kentucky, all attendees of a "parking lot church" have been put under the equivalent of house arrest.
  • In Florida, a pastor was arrested for opening his church to the 900 impoverished families he feeds every week.
  • In Chincoteague Island, VA, police cars have remained stationed around a church as a warning to residents not to attend.
  • In Chicago, IL, we are representing Romanian pastors who came to America for religious freedom, but now find themselves "criminals" for exercising their religious freedom.

All of the above are clients Liberty Counsel is representing, yet this is only a small sample of the hundreds upon hundreds of American pastors from nearly 40 states of this once-free union who have desperately called Liberty Counsel for help in defending their religious freedom.

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Which brings me back to the email from Australia, and the worldwide protests. America has always been the shining beacon of freedom to the entire world. Where we lead, others have followed.

For 244 years, we led the world to freedom, including religious freedom. Yet now, governors and mayors are stealing those freedoms and America's light to the world has grown dimmer to some who watch from abroad.

These protests across America and around the world are not simply a cry for freedom; they are also a cry for America to return to the days as a shining light, a beacon of hope, and not only a symbol of freedom, but the example of freedom.

The work we are doing is not simply for us and not simply for the Americans scattered across 50 states and territories: but for the entire world.

"Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm." – Ephesians 6:13

Finally, please be in prayer for all of our attorneys and staff here at Liberty Counsel as we carry on this fight for Christ's Liberty. Pray also, that the "Great Awakening" will continue, so that every heart shall hear our Lord's call and accept His grace.

"be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong." 1 Corinthians 16:13

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Yours for liberty!

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman

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