{"id":676467,"date":"2021-08-23T16:51:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=676467"},"modified":"2021-08-23T16:51:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:51:20","slug":"canadian-pastor-who-faces-4-year-jail-sentence-for-inciting-church-warns-americans-the-enemy-is-not-hiding-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-pastor-who-faces-4-year-jail-sentence-for-inciting-church-warns-americans-the-enemy-is-not-hiding-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Pastor Who Faces 4-Year Jail Sentence For \u2018Inciting\u2019 Church Warns Americans: \u2018The Enemy Is Not Hiding Anymore\u2019"},"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\">36<\/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-who-faces-4-year-jail-sentence-for-inciting-church-warns-americans-the-enemy-is-not-hiding-anymore%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=676467&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/og-default.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Polish-Canadian pastor who faces a potential four-year jail sentence for holding church services in Calgary, Alberta, is warning Americans that the tyranny he saw growing up in communist Poland has spread to Western countries.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Artur Pawlowski, 48, recently spoke to The Daily Wire as he lingered in the Portland, Oregon, area following an attack on a prayer rally he arranged on the banks of the Willamette River. The event, which he organized with local churches, made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wheres-your-god-now-police-stand-by-while-portland-antifa-assaults-christian-worshippers-maces-pastor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headlines<\/a> when black-clad members of Antifa rushed in to deploy tear gas, destroy sound equipment, assault worshipers, and scoff that God had abandoned them.<\/p>\n<p>Pawlowski, who was maced in the face,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/brownshirts-of-biden-and-fauci-pastor-maced-at-portland-prayer-rally-alleges-police-complicit-in-antifa-ambush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> that Portland police watched the incident from their cars and did nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The clash with Antifa marked a poignant episode in Pawlowski\u2019s speaking tour throughout the United States, during which he has been urging Americans to vigilantly guard the religious liberty he claims is quickly vanishing in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cGestapo Psychopaths\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, when a public health inspector arrived at his church with armed police during Holy Week to inspect the sanctuary during a service, Pawlowski drew international attention when he forcefully&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sickening-polish-pastor-who-threw-gestapo-calgary-police-from-church-gets-another-visit-kicks-them-out-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ejected<\/a>&nbsp;them.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities returned weeks later with a court order and Pawlowski threw them out a second time, rebuking them for disrupting worship again and urging them to contact his lawyer. In response,&nbsp;Court of Queen\u2019s Bench Justice David Gates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/calgary-court-issues-warrant-permitting-police-to-do-anything-necessary-to-enter-pastors-church-arrest-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">authorized<\/a> police and health officials \u201cto use such reasonable force as they deem appropriate to gain access\u201d to Pawlowski\u2019s church and \u201cto do anything necessary\u201d to arrest him if he fails to comply.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=f2Xbo-RB70A&#038;feature=oembed\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=f2Xbo-RB70A&amp;feature=oembed<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Within days, a motorcade of Calgary Police pulled over Pawlowski and his brother on their way home from church. As they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nazi-cowards-calgary-police-arrest-polish-pastor-who-refused-to-allow-police-health-officials-to-disrupt-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cuffed them<\/a> in the middle of a busy highway and dragged them into police vans, Pawlowski called the officers \u201cGestapo psychopaths,\u201d a reference to the Nazi secret police.<\/p>\n<p>Pawlowski, whose grandmother once hid under a mattress while a Nazi soldier raped another girl above her,&nbsp;does not use the term lightly.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH (arrest begins at 1:45 mark):<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=hq-cHqBAjZk&#038;feature=oembed\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=hq-cHqBAjZk&amp;feature=oembed<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in Poland behind the Iron Curtain,\u201d Pawlowski said. \u201cI grew up under communism, socialism, under the boots of the Soviets in a country where you had absolutely no freedoms. No freedom of speech, no freedom of religion, no freedom of association, no freedom of the press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor disagreeing with government, for just simply sharing your heart about something that you have seen or heard, you could be tortured, arrested, beaten, sentenced to years in jail time \u2014 just because you had a different opinion than the State government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Poland, if you listened to another source of information that was coming outside of the communist-approved mainstream media, you could go to prison for five years. If you were caught possessing a pamphlet that was not approved by the government, you could go to jail for a year or two,\u201d Pawlowski continued.<\/p>\n<p>He remembered that \u201cbefore they would sentence you, you would be tortured, beaten by the police.\u201d Lawlessness reigned and the Constitution of the Polish People\u2019s Republic became a mere piece of paper. \u201cThere was nothing that resembled justice and rule of law at all. It was 50,000 communists ruling, enslaving 36 million Polish people at that time. So what I see right now is a similar approach. One law at a time, one infringement on our rights at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dark-days-church-arsonists-plunging-canada-toward-kristallnacht-levels-of-evil-journalist-warns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Dark Days\u2019: Church Arsonists Plunging Canada Toward \u2018Kristallnacht\u2019 Levels Of Evil, Journalist Warns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mQ1RXXdl_PA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech<\/a> in Tennessee, Pawlowski explained that he loves and respects the police who uphold the law, but warned that officers who enforce unjust decrees are acting like those who enabled the Nazi regime. \u201cWhen you choose to break the law, you\u2019re no longer an officer of the law,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re becoming a Gestapo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pawlowski and his brother were released&nbsp;on bail after spending three days in jail, during which time some prison authorities allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-jailed-alberta-pastor-released-on-bail-recounts-harsh-imprisonment-and-blasts-evil-canadian-politicians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mistreated<\/a> them, mocked their faith, and unnecessarily prolonged their incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>The orders under which he was charged have since been rescinded, but a judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/judge-finds-canadian-pastor-guilty-of-contempt-for-holding-worship-services-other-pastor-has-jail-sentence-extended\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> Pawlowski guilty of contempt in June and he still potentially&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6261812956001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faces<\/a>&nbsp;four years in jail for allegedly organizing an illegal in-person gathering,&nbsp;inciting or inviting others to attend an illegal gathering, as well as promoting and attending the gathering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA Boiling Frog\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pawlowski claims he has been warning of diminishing religious liberty in Canada for decades. He noted with painful irony how he was convinced to immigrate to the country from Greece in 1995 because the embassy promised him it was the freest country in the world. In his early 20s at the time, he had a thriving business in Athens but had grown weary of the corruption in Greek society.<\/p>\n<p>By 2005, a year after he became a Canadian citizen, Pawlowski said authorities had already begun to harass him. His fines, court cases, and arrests <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/holy-post\/calgary-street-preacher-plees-for-the-same-tolerance-city-hall-has-offered-occupiers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piled up<\/a> as he preached in the open air outside Calgary City Hall and fed the homeless through the charity he founded. Offenses included reading the Bible aloud, using a megaphone, and stretching an extension cord across a city sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2009, a concerned provincial court judge <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicexchange.com\/calgary-church-loses-charity-status-opposition-to-abortion-homosexuality-cited-as-reasons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck down<\/a>&nbsp;several of the city\u2019s infractions against Pawlowski and his ministry, ruling that \u201cthe City\u2019s attempts \u2026 to limit the scope of the efforts by the accused to minister to his congregants, fall precariously close to being excessive and, to any reasonable observer, an abuse of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) stripped Pawlowski\u2019s church of its tax-exempt status, alleging it spent more than 10% of its time engaged in vocal opposition to divorce, homosexuality, and abortion, which a CRA agent deemed excessively political, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/holy-post\/calgary-church-loses-charitable-status-for-its-non-partisan-political-activities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move from CRA earned a rebuke from Frederick Henry, the Roman Catholic bishop of Calgary at the time, who defended Pawlowski and accused government authorities of displaying what he described as the \u201cheight of hypocrisy.\u201d Henry himself was subjected to an audit in 2004 after he refused to recant public criticism of then-Prime Minister Paul Martin for supporting abortion and same-sex marriage despite claiming to be Catholic. The audit found the government owed him $70.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-democrat-suggests-stripping-catholic-church-of-tax-exempt-status-if-biden-denied-communion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Democrat Suggests Stripping Catholic Church Of Tax-Exempt Status If Biden Denied Communion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After tussling with them for a decade, Pawlowski said he finally achieved victory in court against the authorities in 2015 and had all of his permits restored. When COVID-19 hit, however, they fixed their attention on him again. Less than a month into the pandemic, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/canadian-police-fine-preacher-feeding-homeless-for-coronavirus-health-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit with a fine<\/a> when police alleged that more than 15 people showed up to his outdoor service where he was preaching the Gospel and feeding the homeless.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the gathering was against the public health mandates of Alberta, which as of August 20 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/covid-19-alberta-data.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seen<\/a> 242,997 COVID-19 cases and 2,343 deaths out of a population of more than 4 million.<\/p>\n<p>By the time state action against Pawlowski culminated in his arrest in the middle of the road, several other churches and pastors had been swept up into Canada\u2019s COVID-19 crackdown. The first to draw international attention was Pastor James Coates of Edmonton, whose church was forced underground after Coates was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/canadian-pastor-held-in-solitary-confinement-after-defying-covid-19-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> and police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/police-shut-down-church-of-alberta-pastor-who-was-imprisoned-for-holding-church-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barricaded<\/a> their building behind three layers of fencing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Fox News host Tucker Carlson while her husband was spending more than a month in the maximum-security Edmonton Remand Centre, Erin Coates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0ywfs4rQipQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> she no longer recognized her native Canada. \u201cWe\u2019re like a boiling frog,\u201d she observed. \u201cFor a while, I think our freedoms have just been slowly stripped from us and so slowly over time that we didn\u2019t even realize it. And so when a health order is put in place that takes away your freedoms, it\u2019s not shocking to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou Are Losing Your Liberties\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pawlowski said his speaking tour is intended \u201cto let Americans know that what\u2019s happening in Canada has already started to happen here, and is going to happen in the United States if Americans will not rise up.\u201d Because of their country\u2019s unique role in history, he warned that how Americans respond will bear consequences for the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need your help,\u201d he said. \u201cThe free world is looking at this great American eagle, is waiting for that eagle to start flapping its wings. We need your help. And you have rescued us before. You came to the rescue during the Second World War, and I believe it\u2019s time for America to come to our rescue once more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By sharing his story of what has happened to him through the years, Pawlowski hopes \u201cto awaken as many people as possible that you are losing your liberties left and right. Canada used to be a free nation. It is no longer a free nation. It is under a totalitarian medical regime. And we need to rise up, stand up, and push this great evil away or else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/were-not-ready-pastor-andrew-brunson-predicts-worsening-religious-persecution-in-u-s-regardless-of-election-outcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018We\u2019re Not Ready\u2019: Pastor Andrew Brunson Predicts Worsening Religious Persecution In U.S. Regardless Of Election Outcome<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo as a father, as a patriot, as a lover of my country, Canada, I want to stand up and say, \u2018Hey, I have seen this movie before. It does not end well. Wake up.\u2019&nbsp;Government should never have this enormous power to do whatever they want without accountability. That\u2019s communism, that\u2019s fascism,\u201d he added.&nbsp;\u201cRight now, what we\u2019re seeing is a repetition of history. And I hope that every man that values his family and his country would rise up and stand up and bring attention to what is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Enemy Is In Your Face\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Days after the assault on his rally in Portland, Pawlowski joined a group of Christians who gather weekly outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in nearby Salem to sing worship songs and pray against abortion. Members of Antifa, most of whom were masked and clothed in their signature black, assembled across the road to scream curses at them through megaphones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe enemy is not hiding anymore,\u201d he said during a Facebook live stream&nbsp;of the event. \u201cThe enemy is in your face. The enemy is challenging you, just like the Philistines challenged the army of God. And, at that time, what they needed was David to come to understand that their God is bigger than the enemy\u2019s god. His God was a lot bigger. And if God is for us, who can be against us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pawlowski, though sober, remains hopeful that as evil becomes more brazen, more people will wake up to stand against it. Contrasting them with his fellow Canadians, he said he has been \u201cgreatly encouraged\u201d by the Americans he has met throughout his tour who \u201care fired up for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re patriots, they\u2019re vocal Christians, willing to stand up and do what\u2019s right,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m on fire right now. I\u2019m meeting unbelievably beautiful, amazing lovers of this country everywhere I go.\u201d He noted he has even met some politicians who are committed to resisting tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that greatly encourages me and actually puts more faith in me, because now I feel I\u2019m not alone, I\u2019m not the only one. There are many who think like me. Actually, there are millions like me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the potential jail sentence that awaits him in his home country, Pawlowski remains unafraid. \u201cHistorically speaking, everyone that wanted to change something from tyranny to something that is free and beautiful had to face difficulties. \u2026 And I decided that if no one else wants to pay the price, I\u2019m willing to pay that price. I\u2019m willing to be the voice for the voiceless, for the millions of people that are terrified, afraid of the tyranny. They\u2019re afraid to lose their jobs. They\u2019re afraid to lose their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if I am to be the one that will become that voice for those millions of people, so be it, and I\u2019m willing to pay the price for it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/our-country-is-slipping-pastor-whose-church-was-locked-by-police-warns-of-growing-state-tyranny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Our Country Is Slipping\u2019: Ontario Pastor Whose Church Was Locked By Police Warns Of Growing State Tyranny<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polish-Canadian pastor who faces a potential four-year jail sentence for holding church services in Calgary, Alberta, is warning Americans that the tyranny he saw growing up in communist Poland &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676467","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\/676467","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=676467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676467\/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=676467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}