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Tue Mar 29, 2016, 07:31 AM Mar 2016

Interfaith group shields churchgoers from protesters on Easter in Tulsa

POSTED 8:02 PM, MARCH 28, 2016, BY NADIA JUDITH ENCHASSI, UPDATED AT 08:11PM, MARCH 28, 2016

TULSA, Okla. – “Love is all you need.”

The famous Beatles’ tune was sung by an interfaith group near the doors of a church that was targeted on Easter in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

According to Facebook posts now going viral, the Fellowship Congregational Church UCC is “receiving nasty threats from close-minded and hateful people” and being protested with “vicious, ugly things shouted through a megaphone at everyone, more loudly at the children.”

So, the interreligious “wall of people” lined up on Sunday “to create a safe passageway,” “shield the family and children from the graphic posters and hateful comments that were being shouted at them” and greet the churchgoers – the footage of which is getting thousands of views.

http://kfor.com/2016/03/28/interfaith-group-shields-churchgoers-from-protesters-on-easter/

Videos at link. (Good people but their singing is awful.)

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