Worshippers wearing crowns and clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged or renewed wedding vows in a commitment ceremony at a Pennsylvania church, prompting a nearby school to cancel classes. Attendees gripped the guns, which they had been urged to bring unloaded to the church in the rural Pocono Mountains, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Philadelphia. A spokesman for the church, now headed by the Rev Hyung Jin Moon, said, 'Each of us is called to use the power of the "rod of iron" not to arm or oppress as has been done in satanic kingdoms of this world, but to protect God's children', citing the biblical Book of Revelation