Judge drops noise charges against Richmond street preachers...

The following article is in reference to a group of friends who I occasionally go and preach with in Richmond, VA. They were cited for a noise violation for preaching the Gospel and sentenced to 60 days in jail (although the days were suspended).

Below is the article about their court case today. Pray for American Street Preachers, the persecution is getting worse and worse.

Also please feel free to visit their website at http://www.richmondbet.com

Judge drops noise charges against Richmond street preachers.
Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 - 03:26 PM

Richmond Circuit Judge Richard D. Taylor Jr. dismissed charges against three street preachers for violating the city noise ordinace, ruling that they had been cited under the wrong section of the city code.

Police had charged James Craft, 28; Matthew Ray, 25; and Ryan Walker, 24, of the Richmond Evangelical Biblical Team with violating a ageneral city ordinance involving offensively loud noise for two February inclidents in which they used amplifiers to preach at First Fridays and used megaphones to preach to bar-goers in Shockoe Bottom.

Taylor ruled that another section of the code, governing the use of amplifiers for religious speech, applied.