Summer Tales 09 - The Church protesting the Church?
September 14th
A controversial pro-Israel event took place at Gloucester cathedral which saw the bizarre occurrence of an ordained Church of England Vicar protesting the proceedings. The event, billed as 'The Clash of the Kingdoms', saw a coming together of Christians from all over Gloucestershire to hear the message of David Silver. New Zealand born David Silver preaches the Christian message with a strong emphasis on Israel and the Jewish heritage of Christianity. Now living in Israel, Mr Silver is a Messianic Jew as he is both a Christian and also Jewish by race.
During the evening as a performing group came to the end of their piece there was a momentary lull. In this time a man from the back walked to the front wearing a dog collar and the congregation assumed he was the next item on the program. Without a microphone he started to loudly state certain facts which seemed to include numbers of deaths of innocent Gaza civilians. When understood that this was a protester everyone went into hushed conversation about what was happening and there was also a little applause. At this point several of the men who were involved with the running of the evening approached him and after a flurried discussion the man was escorted out.
One eye-witness commented: "I think it was very sad. He (the protester) had an opportunity to address it in the morning discussions times which were there for questions to be raised. He actually interrupted the act of worship in the church which was far worse than interrupting David (Silver)."
Read the news article from This Is Gloucestershire.co.uk
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