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In FLI Live! Kelly Shackelford spoke with California worship pastor Sean Feucht and Destiny Church’s Pastor Greg Fairrington from Rocklin, CA on the church during times of crisis.

Churches and religious organizations are being ruthlessly singled out and attacked during this period of crisis through vandalism and destruction, rather than treasured like they should be.

As Americans, we may think religious oppression is something that happens in China or North Korea, or in other places too far away to affect our own freedoms. In this edition, we’ll examine 5 recent images from right here the U.S. that pose an important question: Is America is already trotting down the road to religious oppression and tyranny?

Nowhere in the Constitution do we find the power of government officials to tell churches and people of faith if they can sing or lift their voices in worship. But California Governor Newsom somehow discovered the authority to meddle with church worship, and this is just the latest incident in a growing list of brazen abuses of power under the guise of a “new normal.”

Over the July 4th weekend, First Liberty President and CEO, Kelly Shackelford delivered an inspiring speech at Gateway Church in Dallas. Watch the video below, as Kelly offers a timely message of hope, strength and courage to all of us during this definitive moment in our country’s history.

Recently, some of the most appalling examples of discrimination and hateful vitriol against houses of worship has occurred in New York, arguably the state hardest hit by the viral outbreak. But bigotry by government officials in the Empire State runs deep—and it’s existed for a very long time.