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They sat together in the hall of the London courthouse all day waiting for their names to be called.

Not a word came out of Steven Ravbar, 50, and Matthew Carapella, 32, two London men known for their aggressive street preaching on London street corners and unexpected visits to local churches.

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The pair made their first court appearances on mischief charges Monday, a formality to begin the criminal court process.

The charges stem from an incident on April 7 when two men disrupted a sermon at Elmwood Avenue Presbyterian Church.

The pair face a spate of nuisance charges under the newly-strengthened municipal bylaw, at the provincial offences court.

Since then, they’ve all but disappeared from downtown street corners where they would wear sandwich boards and chastise women for everything from what they wore, to the length of their hair, to having tattoos.

Frequently, they would call women “whores.”