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Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tists claim they were de­nied ap­proval to host a planned march in San Fer­nan­do, ini­tial­ly be­liev­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) may have been a fac­tor.

How­ev­er, po­lice have since clar­i­fied that the de­ci­sion was due to a late ap­pli­ca­tion, not SoE re­stric­tions.

The clar­i­fi­ca­tion came as mem­bers of the faith pre­pared to com­mem­o­rate a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone—75 years since the re­peal of the 1917 Shouter Pro­hi­bi­tion Or­di­nance, which once out­lawed their re­li­gious prac­tices.