South Korea's defiant churches face backlash for hampering COVID-19 response

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South Korea's latest COVID-19 outbreak has triggered a public backlash against conservative Christian churches for defying government orders aimed at preventing the disease's spread.

SEOUL - South Korea’s latest COVID-19 outbreak has triggered a public backlash against conservative Christian churches for defying government orders aimed at preventing the disease’s spread.

Authorities said quelling the outbreak was hampered by some 650 church members and 7,700 protesters avoiding or refusing testing as of Tuesday, and more than 300 congregations breaching a ban on in-person gatherings. “Those radical groups are different from us,” Joo Ho-young, who leads the main opposition People Power Party, said last week. “Their extreme arguments made us look as if our party shares such thoughts, and that clearly makes it difficult for politically neutral people to support us.”

Jun was re-imprisoned on Monday for attending the Aug. 15 rally since it violated his bail in April from an indictment earlier this year for breaking election laws.

 

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