Strippers picket church

 Ohio strippers are protesting outside a church whose members are trying to put their club out of business.

Bikini-clad protesters sit in deckchairs outside New Beginnings Ministries church, in Warsaw, during Sunday services.

They launched the picket after congregation members photographed strip club customers' number plates and asked if their wives knew where they were.

The Fox Hole club, which lies about nine miles from the church, has offered a truce, reports the BBC.

But the pastor has refused, saying "as a Christian community, we cannot share territory with the devil".

"Light and darkness cannot exist together so the Fox Hole has got to go," said Pastor Bill Dunfee.

Some strippers hold signs bearing Christian messages such as "Jesus loves the children of the world".

"Everybody has sinned, and that doesn't mean I'm not going to get into heaven," said Fox Hole stripper Laura Meske, 42.

"I believe in Jesus. I don't believe what they preach. They preach hate."

The confrontations between the two camps have so far been largely friendly, with Mr Dunfee and congregants greeting and chatting to the strippers outside the church.