(CHRISTIANITY TODAY) – The charges against two Illinois churches that were penalized last year for performing worship services amid lockdown orders in light of the COVID-19 outbreak have been dismissed.
For hosting services in May 2020, the city of Chicago charged Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church and the Philadelphia Romanian Church of "disorderly conduct" and "mob action."
Elim, however, hosted services with social distancing guidelines, such as spacing between participants and assessing worshippers' temperatures in May of last year when the rules went into force. The United States Supreme Court rejected to hear Elim's case in March, leaving the facility open to the potential of a temporary shutdown for holding services.
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