There are countries where the church has suffered some persecution in the covid-19 pandemic. In the United States, some have even gone to jail for allegedly violating health protocols, as is the case of a deacon from a church in the United States who was imprisoned for singing outdoors without a mask.
The event had approximately 200 people, and Gabriel Rench, who was arrested, offered some statements about what happened:
We had sung the Psalm in the past under the same resolution [with a mask] and they didn’t arrest us, they didn’t warn us … We were simply taking our constitutional liberties to do what we are allowed to do according to the Constitution: worship.