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Anger over lives lost as Jehovah's Witnesses shift on blood transfusion
By Giselle Wakatama

The daughter of a Jehovah's Witness who died after refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds in 2019 has expressed anger after the church altered its longstanding opposition last week.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/jehovahs-witness-blood-transfusion-doctrine-change/107184942

#Health #Surgery #Blood #ReligionStateRelations #GiselleWakatama

Plymouth Brethren fights to establish fifth church in Kyneton
By Tyrone Dalton

The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, through the applicant Kyneton Gospel Trust, wants to build a church for 45 of its members in a housing development, 87 kilometres north-west of Melbourne.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/council-new-plymouth-brethren-church-kyneton-macedon-ranges/107072910

#Churches #ReligionStateRelations #RegionalDevelopmentandPlanning #TyroneDalton

Where the Teacher Is a Hero

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/opinion/poverty-america-arkansas.html

Where the Teacher Is a Hero

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/opinion/poverty-america-arkansas.html

https://www.europesays.com/people/168733/ Mamdani’s Judicial Panel Appears to Be Missing Something: Jewish Members #AppointmentsAndExecutiveChanges #CourtsAndTheJudiciary #Discrimination #JewsAndJudaism #mamdani #Mayors #NewYorkCity #ReligionStateRelations #Zohran #ZohranMamdani

Jews targeted by antisemitism regardless of views on Israel, inquiry told
By Jesse Thompson

A recent wave of antisemitism has been far-reaching, even targeting Jewish people who are critical of the Israeli government, a royal commission probing the phenomenon has heard.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-23/antisemitism-royal-commission-anti-israel-jews-targeted/106948762

#RoyalCommissions #ReligionStateRelations #Judaism #JesseThompson

https://www.europesays.com/iran/191850/ Mourners Chant ‘Revenge’ at Funeral Prayers for Iran’s Slain Supreme Leader #Ali #demonstrations #FuneralsAndMemorials #Grief(Emotion) #Iran #khamenei #Mojtaba(1969) #ProtestsAndRiots #ReligionStateRelations #TehranIran

https://www.europesays.com/news/45263/ As Blockbusters Loom, Monkey Business at the Supreme Court #CitizenshipAndNaturalization #CourtsAndTheJudiciary #DecisionsAndVerdicts #FederalReserveSystem #Gorsuch #Headlines #InterscholasticAthletics #JohnGJr #JusticeDepartment #LawAndLegislation #MonkeysAndApes #NeilM #News #PoliticsAndGovernment #Posner #ReligionStateRelations #RichardA #Roberts #SupremeCourt(US) #TopStories #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment

https://www.europesays.com/news/45192/ Bible Passages May Soon Be Required Reading in Texas Public Schools #Bible #BooksAndLiterature #Education(K12) #GreatHeartsAcademies #Headlines #Minorities #News #ReligionStateRelations #TeachersAndSchoolEmployees #Texas #TopStories

https://www.europesays.com/news/43406/ A Diocese Tries to Protect Its 29-Foot Jesus From Trump’s Border Wall #CustomsAndBorderProtection(US) #DonaldJ #FreedomOfReligion #Headlines #IllegalImmigration #LasCruces(NM) #MountCristoRey(SunlandPark #News #NM) #ReligionStateRelations #TopStories #trump #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment

A Diocese Tries to Protect Its 29-Foot Jesus From Trump’s Border Wall

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/us/politics/border-wall-catholic-church-mount-christo-rey.html

https://www.europesays.com/people/106206/ Pentagon Again Revises Religious Categories for Troops #AnthonyJ #Chaplains #ChristiansAndChristianity #Curtis #DefenseDepartment #John(1960) #Lee #MichaelS(1971) #Mormons(ChurchOfJesusChristOfLatterDaySaints) #PeteHegseth #ReligionStateRelations #RepublicanParty #Tata #UnitedStatesDefenseAndMilitaryForces #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment

https://www.europesays.com/es/592379/ El papa León se prepara para enfrentar la política polarizada de España #abascal #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #ES #España #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #LatestNews #LatestNews #LeoXiv #News #Noticias #NoticiasDestacadas #NoticiasDestacadas #Popes #ReligionStateRelations #RomanCatholicChurch #Santiago #Spain #Titulares #ÚltimasNoticias #ÚltimasNoticias #Vox(SpanishPoliticalParty)

https://www.europesays.com/news/35453/ Are Texans Ready for Talarico’s Kind of Christianity? #Abbott #Austin(Tex) #BaptistChurches #Bible #ChristiansAndChristianity #Cornyn #GregoryW(1957) #Headlines #James #John #Ken #MidtermElections(2026) #News #Paxton #PresbyterianChurch #ReligionStateRelations #Talarico #Texas #TopStories

https://www.europesays.com/2999155/ Trump Administration Pushes Narrative of Christian Nation at Prayer Rally in D.C. #AmericansUnitedForSeparationOfChurchAndState #ChristiansAndChristianity #Conservatism(USPolitics) #dc #Død #Hegseth #Johnson #marco #Mike(1972) #NationalMall(Washington #pentagon #Pete #PeteHegseth #ReligionAndBelief #ReligionStateRelations #Rubio #SecretaryOfDefense #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment #WashingtonDc

https://www.europesays.com/people/75270/ Trump Administration Pushes Narrative of Christian Nation at Prayer Rally in D.C. #AmericansUnitedForSeparationOfChurchAndState #ChristiansAndChristianity #Conservatism(USPolitics) #DC #hegseth #johnson #marco #Mike(1972) #NationalMall(Washington #pete #PeteHegseth #ReligionAndBelief #ReligionStateRelations #rubio #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment #WashingtonDc

https://www.europesays.com/news/29920/ Trump Administration Pushes Narrative of Christian Nation at Prayer Rally in D.C. #AmericansUnitedForSeparationOfChurchAndState #ChristiansAndChristianity #Conservatism(USPolitics) #DC #Headlines #hegseth #Johnson #Marco #Mike(1972) #NationalMall(Washington #News #Pete #ReligionAndBelief #ReligionStateRelations #rubio #TopStories #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment #WashingtonDC

Trump Administration Pushes Narrative of Christian Nation at Prayer Rally in D.C.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/us/trump-prayer-rally-national-mall.html

https://www.europesays.com/africa/235259/ With Algeria Visit, Pope Leo Returns to His Augustinian Roots #Africa #Algeria #AugustineOfHippo(354430) #ChristiansAndChristianity #DonaldJ #Francis #LeoXIV #MiddleEast #pope’s #ReligionAndBelief #ReligionStateRelations #RomanCatholicChurch #Trump #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment

https://www.europesays.com/people/54875/ Vance Says Pope Leo Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs #DonaldJ #JD #JamesDavidVance #JDVance #LeoXiv #Popes #ReligionStateRelations #RomanCatholicChurch #Trump #UnitedStatesInternationalRelations #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment #Vance

https://www.europesays.com/news/22756/ Trump Administration Casts Host of Policies Under Biden as Anti-Christian #AttorneysGeneral #Biden #Blanche #ChristiansAndChristianity #DonaldJ #FederalBureauOfInvestigation #FreedomOfReligion #Garland #Headlines #JosephRJr #JusticeDepartment #MerrickB #NationalSchoolBoardsAssn #News #PlacesOfWorship #ReligionStateRelations #SchoolBoards #SouthernPovertyLawCenter #Todd(Attorney) #TopStories #trump #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment

https://www.europesays.com/africa/202402/ In Angola, Pope Leo XIV Faces the Legacy of Colonialism #Africa #angola #Baptism #ChristiansAndChristianity #EvangelicalMovement #InternationalRelations #LeoXIV #Luanda(Angola) #PoliticsAndGovernment #pope’s #priests #ReligionStateRelations #RomanCatholicChurch #Slavery(Historical)

More views of SA Liberal candidate emerge against Islam and trans agenda
By Evelyn Leckie

More views by Liberal Party candidate and evangelical Christian Carston Woodhouse emerge with the Adelaide man saying Islam is "poisonous and wrong" and the trans agenda is"insanity". Warning: This story contains content some readers might find distressing.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-11/sa-liberal-candidate-carston-woodhouse-islam-transgender-issues/106440958

#StateandTerritoryElections #ReligionStateRelations #GovernmentandPolitics #LGBTQIA #Islam #GenderEquality #EvelynLeckie

How Trump Took Up the ‘Christian Genocide’ Cause in Nigeria

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-christians-trump.html

Protester Nekima Levy Armstrong Who Interrupted Minnesota Church Service Is Arrested, Officials Say

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/nekima-levy-armstrong-arrest-minnesota-church.html

Mamdani Is First New York Mayor to Use the Quran at His Swearing-In

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/nyregion/mamdani-quran-inauguration-muslim.html

Trump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/admin/trump-administration-religion-christmas.html

What to Know About U.S. Military Action in Nigeria

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/world/africa/trump-nigeria-military-christians.html

What to Know About U.S. Military Action in Nigeria

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/world/africa/trump-nigeria-military-christians.html

Immigration Crackdown Creates Fault Lines Among Baptists

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/southern-baptists-immigration-trump.html

Pope Leo Appoints Bishop Ronald Hicks to Succeed Timothy Dolan

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/bishop-ronald-hicks-cardinal-timothy-dolan-archbishop-new-york.html

Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/massachusetts-church-ice-nativity-scene.html

Supreme Court Questions N.Y. Ban on Religious Exemptions for Vaccines

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/nyregion/ny-school-vaccinations.html

What to Know: Trump Labels Nigeria’s Christian Violence a ‘Genocide’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/world/africa/nigeria-trump-genocide-claims.html

What to Know: Trump Labels Nigeria’s Christian Violence a ‘Genocide’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/world/africa/nigeria-trump-genocide-claims.html

Texas Governor Declares Muslim Civil Rights Group a ‘Terrorist Organization’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/texas-abbott-cair-terrorist-group-muslim.html

Pope Leo Doesn’t Want to Be the Anti-Trump. But He Is.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/opinion/trump-pope-leo-maga-christianity.html

Pope Leo Doesn’t Want to Be the Anti-Trump. But He Is.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/opinion/trump-pope-leo-maga-christianity.html

Prison Guards Shaved His Dreadlocks. The Supreme Court Will Decide if He Can Sue.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/supreme-court-dreadlocks-prisoner.html

Bishops With Ties to Trump Commission Criticize Treatment of Immigrants

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/trump-bishops-communion.html

A Muslim Mayor in New York City? Voters Say Yes, Emphatically.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/politics/mamdani-muslim.html

Mamdani Is Making Overtures to Jewish Leaders. Some Are Listening.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/nyregion/mandani-jews-israel-palestine.html

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/world/europe/uk-abortion-farage.html

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/world/europe/uk-abortion-farage.html

Amid the Gaza War, Israel Is More Divided and Isolated Than Ever

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/world/middleeast/israel-challenges-gaza-war.html

Amid the Gaza War, Israel Is More Divided and Isolated Than Ever

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/world/middleeast/israel-challenges-gaza-war.html

Behind Charlie Kirk’s Spiritual Journey That Fused Christianity and Politics

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/us/charlie-kirk-christian-faith-politics.html

Where Charlie Kirk Stood on Key Political Issues

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/us/charlie-kirk-views-guns-gender-climate.html

'The emperor has no clothes': Comedian Maz Jobrani hits back at Trump
By Nassim Khadem

Iranian-American comedy veteran Maz Jobrani believes the US president is trying to censor free speech in the United States, and he intends to hit back.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-13/iranian-american-comedian-maz-jobrani-jokes-about-donald-trump/105611144

#Comedy #WorldPolitics #Entertainment #TVComedy #StandUpComedy #ComedyMovies #War #Censorship #ReligiousDiscrimination #GenderDiscrimination #Discrimination #ReligionStateRelations #Race #GovernmentandPolitics #NassimKhadem

How Pope Francis Catalyzed the Catholic Right in the U.S.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/pope-francis-catholic-conservatives.html

'They tell you you're worthless, then tell you they can help you': The 'harmful' practice still legal despite promised ban
By Briana Fiore

An alleged conversion therapy event divided this country town, but despite promises to outlaw the practice, it's still legal in this state.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-17/conversion-therapy-still-legal-in-wa-lgbtqia-community-concerned/103472100

#LGBT #ReligionStateRelations #SocialPolicy #BrianaFiore