Nigel Farage, the Reform U.K. member of Parliament for Clacton, has expressed support for a British church fighting a local council’s bid to ban its street preaching ministry, meeting with the church’s pastor to discuss their case.

Bread of Life Community Church, based in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, shared a photograph of Farage meeting with Pastor Stephen Clayden and said the pair discussed “Jesus, evangelism and the Bible.”

“Bread of Life Community Church is grateful for his support,” the church said in a Facebook post. The church is challenging a Community Protection Notice, or CPN, a legally binding civil order under U.K. anti-social behavior laws, served on the congregation by the Safer Colchester Partnership.

The notice prohibits the church and all its members from using amplification during its weekly outreach in Colchester city center. Breaching a CPN is a criminal offense.

In compliance with the notice, preachers had stopped using microphones and were instead relying on unaided voice projection, The Telegraph reported, saying the council’s notice cited complaints from members of the public who said they were told they were “going to Hell” and exposed to language “likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.”

The church has rejected those claims and maintains that authorities are targeting the substance of its message rather than its method.

More than 11,000 people have signed a petition calling on Colchester City Council to withdraw the notice. The petition states that no evidence of harassment has been produced and calls the church’s outreach the peaceful exercise of free speech and religious practice.

The advocacy group Christian Concern said the CPN is unprecedented because it targets the entire church and its membership rather than individual preachers.

Bread of Life Community Church says it had preached in Colchester for six years without any formal complaints until local officials began applying pressure.

Wardens initially asked church members to stop or reduce their amplification, despite there being no ban on amplified sound in the Public Space Protection Order, or PSPO, covering the area. The council then reportedly raised concerns not only about volume but also about doctrinal content, including references to judgment and hell.

A non-legally binding Community Protection Warning followed in November 2025, along with threats of fines, before the legally binding CPN was issued.

Pastor Clayden was quoted as saying that the church records and livestreams all of its outreach activity and that no evidence of harassment exists. Preaching takes place outside a closed retail unit, not near active businesses.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/nigel-farage-sides-with-street-preachers-in-row-over-evangelism.html

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A Catholic priest said that while seeking treatment for a hip injury at a Canadian hospital, medical workers twice offered him the option of assisted suicide, despite knowing that he was religiously and morally opposed to the practice.

Fr. Larry Holland, 79, fractured his hip after falling in his bathroom on Christmas Day 2025 and subsequently went to Vancouver General Hospital to seek treatment for his injury, The B.C. Catholic, the official media outlet of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, first reported. However, despite the priest’s assertion that his condition is not and never was fatal, he says a doctor had raised the possibility of him taking his own life through Canada’s taxpayer-funded and government-run Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program in the event his injury worsened.

“I think I was very shocked. It is such a sensitive subject,” Holland told The B.C. Catholic about being given the option of MAiD, in an interview published Tuesday. “There are some things you just don’t talk about to some people.”

The priest told the outlet that the doctor said to him that MAiD is “something they have to discuss with someone who’s been given a terminal diagnosis.” Holland had at the time known made his moral opposition to euthanasia — which Catholic doctrine explicitly forbids.

After weeks passed, a nurse would also offer MAiD to Holland, he told The B.C. Catholic, adding that the nurse’s offer appeared to come out of a sense of “false compassion.”

Vancouver Coastal Health, the taxpayer-funded government health authority that operates Vancouver General Hospital under Canada’s single-payer healthcare system, told The B.C. Catholic that its hospital’s “staff may consider bringing up MAiD based on their clinical judgment, provided they possess the necessary knowledge and skills to do so.”

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2026/05/02/canadian-priest-says-hospital-asked-him-to-consider-assisted-suicide-twice-after-broken-hip/

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doctors and nurses in canada trained to suggest to elderly and infirmed patients, "why not kill yourself?"

canada sounds like a very sick place

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she should just say everyone except for white males

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i remember being taught in school how the nazi's euthanized the disabled and how horrible it was to treat people this way

today, these ultra left governments are really doing the same thing, but it is now being described as humantarian