A Christian preacher from East London who was arrested last week and banned from preaching outside St. Paul’s Cathedral, says the U.K.’s Parliament needs to pass a new law protecting the right to proclaim the Bible in public. Allen Coote, a 55-year-old bus driver who was reported to authorities by church staff, is backing a new campaign stared by the U.K.-based religious freedom group Barnabas Fund to
urge the country’s Parliament to enact a new law to protect the right to publicly preach from the Bible, according to Premier. Martin Parsons, the charity’s head of research, has said, “One of the first aspects of freedom of religion to be established in England was the freedom to read the Bible in public. A Royal decree specifically forbade clergy from stopping anyone reading the Bible in public. Now St. Paul’s Cathedral is trying to stop someone reading the Sermon on the Mount in public.” READ MORE
