Churches must be allowed to reopen, MPs demand in letter to PM

May 27, 2020 by

by Christopher Hope, Telegraph:

The 20 MPs questioned why shoppers can go to a ‘busy supermarket’ but worshippers in need of spiritual sustenance cannot pray in a church.

Boris Johnson has been urged by a group of Conservative MPs to allow churches to open for prayer, weddings and funerals as soon as next month.

The 20 MPs, including former ministers and senior backbenchers, questioned why shoppers can go to a “busy supermarket” to buy food and drinks but worshippers in need of spiritual sustenance cannot currently pray in a largely empty church.

“Weddings (whether in the church porch or inside), christenings and other services are wanted; safely and soon”, the MPs said. “Ten can gather in a crematorium yet one cannot be in a church.”

The Government’s Covid-19 recovery strategy published earlier this month put churches and other public places of worship in the same bracket as pubs and cinemas, and said that (they) could not reopen until July 4 at the earliest.

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