Europe’s Invisible Circle Tightens The Noose On Christians

Why?

Why has Europe taken such a ridiculously hard stance against free speech and Christianity? Why have they decided that the murder of the unborn is so important that prayer is more dangerous than the scissors and forceps that are used to tear apart a life?

The truth of it is stunning. No matter what Democrats or those blind morons on the left want to call the living being inside of a woman’s womb, the act of killing that child is MURDER.

The left has trained many in society to behave like trained seals concerning this death sentence for the unborn. The accepted name for this intentional murder is abortion. The very name is thrown around so indiscriminately in today’s dumbed-down and numbed-down society that the fact that it is murder is glossed over. The green-haired nose-pierced screamers who have no concept of self-worth are being willingly used by the elites on the left, like pawns on a perverted chessboard. They are liberal zombies in every realistic sense, but they don’t live in reality, so they are unfazed by truth.

How bad has it become? It’s dangerously bad.

So bad that many countries in Europe have set up 100–250-meter perimeters around abortion clinics to protect anyone entering from hearing any whispers of truth concerning the most significant decision of not only their life, but also the unflourished life they are about to snuff out.

A meter is 1.09 yards, which means if you even wanted to pray silently, you couldn’t get within over a football field away from one of the left’s protected death clinics without facing criminal charges and being arrested.

In February, police in Scotland arrested 74-year-old grandmother Rose Docherty for holding a sign within 200 meters of Queen Elizabeth University Hospital that read, “Coercion is a crime; here to talk, only if you want.”

She was detained for several hours before being charged and released on bail.

British Army veteran Adam Smith-Connor was convicted in October 2024 for silently praying near an abortion clinic in Bournemouth, where his unborn son had been killed years earlier. The court found Smith-Connor guilty of a “disapproval of abortion” despite him only thinking about his son.

Smith-Connor is a man who served 20 years in the Army Reserves, including a tour in Afghanistan, defending the freedoms that UK authorities are now systematically undermining.

For his service, he received a conditional discharge and was ordered to pay £9,000 ($12,000+) U.S. Dollars in prosecution costs.

In February, while in Munich for his Security Conference Speech, Vice President JD Vance addressed the situation.

“Adam was found guilty of breaking the government’s new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person’s decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one-off, crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person. But no.”

Vance then mentioned Scotland’s Safe Access Zones Act, which created 200-meter buffer zones. The government warned residents, “that even private prayer within their own homes might be considered breaking the law.”

He then correctly added, “In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”

Now, Clive Johnston, 76, a retired Baptist pastor and former president of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, is standing trial on Wednesday at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court in Northern Ireland, facing criminal charges that should alarm every Christian in the West.

Johnston is facing two charges under Northern Ireland’s Abortion Services Safe Access Zones Act for conducting a religious service based on John 3:16 near Causeway Hospital in Coleraine on July 7, 2024.

Really, give me a break.

Prosecutors are accusing Johnston of “influencing a protected person, either directly or indirectly,” by holding a “protest” near a hospital. This activity allegedly violated a 2023 law that prohibits “anti-abortion protests and other behaviors” within buffer zones of 100 to 250 meters from the entrances of abortion providers.

The retired pastor is also facing charges for failing to leave the area when ordered by police.

Here’s the problem: there was no protest. According to The Christian Institute, the religious liberty nonprofit defending him, this prosecution is particularly diabolical because Johnston never mentioned abortion during his service, and no anti-abortion signs were present.

Approximately a dozen people attended the Sunday service held on a patch of grass, separated from the hospital entrance by a dual carriageway. Johnston led the hymns on a ukulele and preached one of the most well-known verses in the Bible, John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”

But apparently, UK authorities decided that preaching the Gospel near a hospital that performs abortions equals an anti-abortion protest.

Simon Calvert, the deputy director of The Christian Institute, criticized the prosecution as

“A shocking new attempt to restrict freedom of religion and freedom of speech in a region where open-air gospel services are an integral part of the culture.

Christians are pro-life. But preaching the good news about Christ is not the same thing as protesting against abortion. The Police and the Public Prosecution Service are overstepping the mark.”

“If the Gospel can be banned in this public place, where else can it be banned? There is a vital principle at stake.”

If convicted, Johnston faces a criminal record and fines totaling thousands of pounds.

Aaron Thompson, Johnston’s defense barrister, argued in court that the buffer zone legislation conflicts with the protections for religious expression and freedom of conscience established under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Thompson also disclosed that Johnston has hired John Larkin KC, the former Attorney General of Northern Ireland, to join his legal team.

His defense rightly argues that buffer zone laws designed to prevent harassment at abortion clinics are being misused to criminalize religious expression unrelated to abortion.

Johnston expressed his gratitude for the support he has received from Christians around the world.

“I am grateful for the kind messages of support I have received from members of the public both here and abroad, and for the prayers being offered up to God about this case by many Christians. I look forward to defending myself in court.”

Here’s a question everyone should be asking: What are Democrats and leftists so afraid of regarding this murderous procedure? They seem so fearful that an unborn child might be saved after a conversation with a caring Christian that they establish a football-field-sized perimeter to ensure that nothing— not even common sense—can be discussed with a woman who may think this is her only option.

This is a blatant abuse of power. This type of perimeter is not enforced around any Christian churches. Yet, these palaces of the perverse are considered sacred by liberal Democrats and the far left and protected by farcical laws that threaten free speech as we know it.

Everyone, regardless of your political affiliation or beliefs about abortion, needs to oppose this. Free speech is a fundamental right. If this type of intimidation is allowed to be disguised as law, then nothing will be spared.