A Christian evangelist is praising a recent court decision which overturned federal convictions against him for preaching on a public sidewalk near the Liberty Bell.

In 2007, the president of Repent America was arrested by a U.S. park ranger after rejecting a verbal permit to move to a free-speech zone away from where he had been preaching. But a three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit unanimously overturned convictions against Michael Marcavage in a recent ruling.

"The only thing that I was guilty of that day was preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and against the mass murder of children in the womb," Marcavage contends...