Churches hold Palm Sunday services despite state bans on gatherings

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'We don't get our rights to worship freely from the government we get those from God,' said the Rev. Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 'We'd rather obey God than man.'

"We don't get our rights to worship freely from the government we get those from God," said the Rev. Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana."We'd rather obey God than man."Spell held another massive service at Life Tabernacle despite being charged multiple times last week for violating the state ban.

Police are arresting and fining people for violating social distancing ordersDespite several clusters of Covid-19 sicknesses traced to congregations -- at least 70 cases were traced to a single church in Sacramento, California -- other states are also allowing services to continue. "Churches by and large do the right thing, they want to protect their parishioners," Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson told reporters Sunday.

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