The town of Brookville, Jefferson County, tried to shut down a church-run homeless shelter citing zoning code violations. Now it's paying the church and its lawyers $100,000 to settle a lawsuit.
"I'm just thankful," the Rev. Jack Wisor, pastor of First Apostles' Doctrine Church in Brookville, Pa., told the NYT. "I knew in my heart that once the truth was exposed, God would show we were doing the right thing."
The church sued the town in November, saying it was infringing on the church's religious liberty by forcing it to stop housing homeless people, according to the report.
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