Nearly 500 years after the Bishop of London burned copies of William Tyndale’s New Testament outside of St. Paul’s Cathedral, the church is once again at the center of controversy for blocking the reading of scripture. A man was apparently arrested outside St. Paul’s after reading the Bible aloud in public. The street preacher insisted to a police officer that he was “not committing a crime” as the arrest took place.
A video shows a bearded man with an American-sounding accent asking a policeman why he is being told to move on when other people are standing there talking. The police officer tells him, “I haven’t got a problem with what you are doing, but staff here have asked you to move off of the property.” When the preacher protests, the police officer says, “Then I will arrest you for a breach of the peace.” READ MORE
