RELIGION HEADLINES
Written by on December 3, 2024
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(SRN NEWS) – Germany is famous for its Christmas markets that date back to the Middle Ages, but it seems the LGBT agenda has come for them as well. In Berlin, there’s now a gay Christmas market that offers rainbow pierogi and entertainment by drag queens. There’s also another Christmas market that specializes in pornography. Berlin features the largest LGBT community in Germany. Meanwhile, the Christmas markets are also under tight security. In 2016 a Muslim extremist plowed through a crowd of market-goers in Berlin with a truck, killing 13 and injuring dozens.
Hong Kong’s top court has upheld earlier rulings that favor the granting of subsidized housing benefits and equal inheritance rights to gay couples. The Court of Final Appeal’s dismissal of the government’s appeals ends some years-long legal battles between homosexuals and Hong Kong’s Housing Authority. Asia is generally a socially conservative region but relentless pressure by LGBT activists and the United Nations is making inroads. Gay marriage has been legalized in Taiwan and Thailand. Hong Kong has yet to do so.
Human rights activists, religious freedom groups and some members of Congress are urging FIFA not to pick Saudi Arabia as the site of the 2034 World Cup soccer tournament. The decision by FIFA member federations on December 11th has been seen as inevitable since last year despite the kingdom’s record of persecuting Christians and other groups. Saudi Arabia ranks 13th on Open Doors’ annual World Watch list, which ranks the countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian. Saudi Arabia observes strict Islamic law.
After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed its new self to the world over the weekend. Rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy good-as-new stonework have erased somber memories of its devastating fire in 2019. Images broadcast live of a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron showed the inside of the iconic church as worshippers might have experienced it back in medieval times. Gaping holes that the blaze tore into the vaulted ceilings, leaving charred piles of debris, are gone, now filled in with new stonework.
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