AYLMER, Ontario, January 29, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Police in a small Ontario town have been going door to door and fining members of an evangelical community who have dared to go to church on Sundays.
Footage emerged of the police trudging through the snow to deliver a ticket to a member of a Church of God community in Aylmer, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else’s name. The film was published on Twitter by Herbert Hildebrandt, the son of the Aylmer Church of God Pastor Henry Hildebrandt.
Tonight, under cover of darkness @AylmerPolice went from house to house handing out $880 tickets for going to church this past Sunday.#standwithGod @ezralevant @randyhillier @DerekSloanCPC @KarahaliosPC @PoliceOnGuard @TGranicAllen @aylmerpastor @aigkenham @benshapiro pic.twitter.com/z0P4N9r5cX
— Herbert Hildebrandt (@herberandt) January 27, 2021
“Tonight, under cover of darkness @AylmerPolice went from house to house handing out $880 tickets for going to church this past Sunday,” Herbert Hildebrandt tweeted.
The church-goers were in violation of Ontario’s “Emergency Orders” measure meant to contain the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus through suspending the rights of Ontarians to, among other activities, attend public worship in groups larger than 10.
According to their Facebook page, the Aylmer Police Service identified
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