{"id":26568,"date":"2026-05-29T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26568"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:54:30","slug":"a-dark-day-for-christian-freedom-northern-ireland-pastor-convicted-for-preaching-john-316-near-buffer-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-dark-day-for-christian-freedom-northern-ireland-pastor-convicted-for-preaching-john-316-near-buffer-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Dark Day For Christian Freedom\u2019: Northern Ireland Pastor Convicted for Preaching John 3:16 Near \u2018Buffer Zone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A district judge in Northern Ireland has convicted an elderly pastor of breaking the country\u2019s abortion buffer zone laws by preaching a sermon on\u00a0<a class=\"rtBibleRef\" href=\"https:\/\/ref.ly\/John%203.16;kjv1900?t=biblia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reference=\"John 3.16\" data-version=\"kjv1900\" data-purpose=\"bible-reference\">John 3:16<\/a>\u00a0on a public sidewalk across from a hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retired pastor Clive Johnston, 78, the former president of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, was convicted on two criminal counts and fined\u00a0\u00a3450 (British pounds) for a July 2024 sermon he delivered on the fringes of a buffer zone near Coleraine\u2019s Causeway Hospital. He is charged with \u201cconducting a protest\u201d that could influence a \u201cprotected person\u201d and failing to comply with orders to leave, according to U.K.-based Premier Christian News.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/harbingersdaily.com\/a-dark-day-for-christian-freedom-northern-ireland-pastor-convicted-for-preaching-john-316-near-buffer-zone\/\">harbingersdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A district judge in Northern Ireland has convicted an elderly pastor of breaking the country\u2019s abortion buffer zone laws by preaching a sermon on\u00a0John 3:16\u00a0on a public sidewalk across from a hospital. Retired pastor Clive Johnston, 78, the former president of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, was convicted on two criminal counts and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-dark-day-for-christian-freedom-northern-ireland-pastor-convicted-for-preaching-john-316-near-buffer-zone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018A Dark Day For Christian Freedom\u2019: Northern Ireland Pastor Convicted for Preaching John 3:16 Near \u2018Buffer Zone\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Uw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26569,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568\/revisions\/26569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}