{"id":1262233,"date":"2022-02-01T16:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T21:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1262233"},"modified":"2022-02-01T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T21:39:06","slug":"canadian-pastor-jailed-for-defying-lockdown-sings-amazing-grace-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-pastor-jailed-for-defying-lockdown-sings-amazing-grace-at-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Pastor Jailed for Defying Lockdown Sings \u2018Amazing Grace\u2019 at Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcanadian-pastor-jailed-for-defying-lockdown-sings-amazing-grace-at-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1262233&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/153516626_107261528079907_704415261307666877_n-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Pastor Tobias Tissen, a Canadian pastor who was arrested and jailed for two days in October after he defied coronavirus-related public health orders to hold church services, visited the U.S.-Canadian border on Sunday to sing \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d and show his opposition to rules that prevent unvaccinated persons from crossing the border.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s now not possible for the unvaccinated to cross border travel.<\/p>\n<p>In response earlier today at the border between Manitoba and the states, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TissenTobias?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TissenTobias<\/a> and his church friends sang Amazing Grace.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UPKf52j9xU\">https:\/\/t.co\/UPKf52j9xU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZgYla2R6qV\">pic.twitter.com\/ZgYla2R6qV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Efron Monsanto  (@realmonsanto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmonsanto\/status\/1487967198018617349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Tissen, an outspoken critic of masking and vaccine mandates, was the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/rural-canadian-pastor-spends-extra-night-jail-refusing-condition-stop-church-gathering\"><span>subject<\/span><\/a><span> of an arrest warrant last May for defying a Manitoba provincial ban on public gatherings of more than five people. His Church of God Restoration, which has a congregation of about 200, accumulated hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for violating the ban to hold services and events.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In November 2020, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/winnipeg.ctvnews.ca\/one-person-fined-after-rcmp-block-drive-in-church-service-near-steinbach-man-1.5209383\"><span>shut down<\/span><\/a><span> a drive-in prayer service by physically blocking the entrance to the church parking lot. A hundred congregants showed up anyway and were dispersed by the RCMP, except for one \u201cadult male\u201d who refused to leave and was fined $1,296.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tissen racked up several of those $1,296 personal fines himself, while the church was repeatedly fined $5,000 for holding events. Tissen considered the fines unjust and vowed to fight them in court. His supporters questioned the absurdity of banning \u201cdrive-in\u201d services in freezing cold weather where all of the attendees sat in their own tightly-sealed cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight I was fined more then 17k for attending and leading church when the province thinks I should Quarantine.<br \/>If there is anything essential to a pastor, it is to be at church.<br \/>Other people are exempt for &#8220;essential&#8221; reasons. Nothing is more essential then our souls. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mfww7N0cMv\">pic.twitter.com\/mfww7N0cMv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tobias Tissen (@TissenTobias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TissenTobias\/status\/1481868228745859072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Tissen kept a lower profile after a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/winnipeg.citynews.ca\/2021\/10\/19\/steinbach-pastor-tobias-tissen-arrested\/\"><span>warrant<\/span><\/a><span> was issued for his arrest in May 2021, by which time the pandemic restrictions had been adjusted to allow church services \u2013 provided the church required all attendees to be vaccinated, or else limited attendance to 33 percent capacity. Six other churches joined Tissen in protesting this restriction as a violation of their religious freedoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have no authority scripturally based and based on Christian convictions to limit anyone from coming to hear the word of God,\u201d Tissen testified in court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tissen accused the authorities of intimidating his family while they tried to carry out the warrant for his arrest:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(1\/2)<br \/>My wife and children were pulled over tonight on their way to the caroling event and they asked if I was in the car. Since I wasn&#8217;t there the delayed my wife and came up with two bogus fines of not having the registration present and an outdated address on the driver&#8217;s. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fRgcDTHAnB\">pic.twitter.com\/fRgcDTHAnB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tobias Tissen (@TissenTobias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TissenTobias\/status\/1474604908355768321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The RCMP finally arrested Tissen in October 2021 during a traffic stop. The Church of God Restoration denounced his arrest as an \u201cegregious violation of his constitutional rights\u201d and warned Canada was \u201con a dangerous path.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A pastor from the sister Church of God in Ontario uploaded video of Tissen\u2019s arrest to social media:<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Video of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TissenTobias?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TissenTobias<\/a> getting arrested in Steinbach, Manitoba earlier tonight under the direction of &#8220;Christian&#8221; Police Chief Harold Laninga of the Steinbach <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rcmpmb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rcmpmb<\/a>. What a disgrace. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/standwithGod?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#standwithGod<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j0Jd5fs28i\">pic.twitter.com\/j0Jd5fs28i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pastor Henry Hildebrandt (@aylmerpastor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aylmerpastor\/status\/1450285604927950853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cThis whole court system makes me laugh because it\u2019s turning out to be more and more of a joke,\u201d Tissen said after his arrest, suggesting he eluded custody for so long because most Manitoba police officers did not want to arrest him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tissen was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/steinbachonline.com\/local\/pastor-tobias-tissen-released-from-custody\"><span>released<\/span><\/a><span> after two days in jail on a promise to pay $1,000 in fines and refrain from organizing further events that violated public health orders. He was explicitly given permission to hold religious services and perform his duties as a pastor. Tissen called this adjustment to the conditions of his release \u201cmiraculous\u201d and said he would not have left jail unless his religious freedom was protected.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cIn Ephesians, it says that we\u2019re fighting against spiritual wickedness in high places and principalities and powers. That\u2019s it, right now, what we see. And they\u2019re after all of us who are giving to God what belongs to God and to Caesar what belongs to Caesar. But now, Caesar wants that which belongs to God. And as Christians, we just cannot. We cannot comply with that,\u201d he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/rural-canadian-pastor-spends-extra-night-jail-refusing-condition-stop-church-gathering\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> after his release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tissen\u2019s supporters credited his arrest and release as a watershed moment in Canadian resistance to some of the world\u2019s strictest coronavirus lockdowns and mandates, leading up to the massive convoy of truckers currently protesting vaccine mandates in Ottawan, to the great <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/29\/trudeau-flees-ottawa-as-freedom-convoy-makes-its-way-to-canadas-capital-city\/\"><span>discomfort<\/span><\/a><span> of leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tissen, an enthusiastic supporter of the Freedom Convoy, dedicated his performance of \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d at the border post in Emerson, Manitoba, on Sunday to the truckers. A semi truck boasting a Canadian flag and a sign reading \u201cMandate Freedom\u201d was parked outside the border crossing.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amazing time right at the border singing for the truckers and cheering them on as they turned around!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ConvoyForFreedom2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ConvoyForFreedom2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bIQyItySYU\">pic.twitter.com\/bIQyItySYU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tobias Tissen (@TissenTobias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TissenTobias\/status\/1487981867450224646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Tissen <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/canadian-pastor-jailed-for-church-sings-amazing-grace-at-us-border-as-huge-protests-continue-in-ottawa\"><span>observed<\/span><\/a><span> that he only needed his Canadian passport to cross the border before vaccine mandates were imposed, \u201cbut now that\u2019s not good enough.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnyway, while we\u2019re here, we want to do something interesting. Want to try to do something that I don\u2019t know was ever done over here, right in front of the border. And that is, we want to sing \u2018Amazing Grace.\u2019 I\u2019m here with some friends,\u201d he said with a chuckle before mounting a podium adorned with signs reading \u201cThe Church Must Gather\u201d and \u201cGod\u2019s Justice Is Coming.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Tobias Tissen, a Canadian pastor who was arrested and jailed for two days in October after he defied coronavirus-related public health orders to hold church services, visited the U.S.-Canadian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}