Search for "cheap airline tickets to providence ri phone number 1-800-299-7264"

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…he truth. Truth really does have some kind of ontological, existential superiority over lies and this is written in the Bible, in the Old Testament in particular. In the end, the ways of truth always triumph over the ways of wickedness, guile and lies. And with each day that passes, the ways of truth are more and more triumphant even though we are still behind bars and are likely to be here a lot longer yet. Madonna performed yesterday (7 August)….

National Review’s Kevin Williamson Comes Out Against Daughters, Misunderstands Science

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…eived by many as espousing virulent, mean-spirited sexism; There is a non-trivial number of men who actually love their daughters and are neither disappointed they exist nor convinced that it means they’re low-status males; There is a non-trivial number of human beings who are unrepentant daughters and/or fallopian tube havers and/or cardigan wearers; There was a Republican president in recent memory who had two daughters; There are social conserv…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ing when and why the oracles at Delphi and elsewhere fell silent, in the period when Christians were making their first major inroads into the millennial religious structures of the Roman empire. In the late Roman period, religions did indeed die out, and downward trends in religious affiliation may have had something to do with that. Whether or not Christianity is the bird that the dinosaur of Greco-Roman religion evolved into (or even whether th…

Cruz and the Evangelical Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…e money raised by big evangelical donors. In the 2008 and 2012 Republican primaries, the endorsements of big name figures were overstated. In 2008, there was a protracted period of waiting for a group of influential leaders to endorse someone; endorsements (of Mike Huckabee) were too little and too late. (And see how much significance those endorsements had in Huckabee’s 2016 run—that is to say, none). Similarly, after Rick Perry’s post-prayer ral…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in the summer. Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein will make marriage equality a priority Martin McGuinness, leader of Sinn Fein, said the party’s first act in the next Assembly term will be to push for marriage equality, which has been rejected five times previously. Zimbabwe: Opposition leader says he will not persecute gays Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told reporters that while he doesn’t support homosexuality, “I will not persecute or prosecut…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nti-LGBT laws, including so-called “propaganda” laws that “arbitrarily restrict rights to freedom of expression and assembly and threaten the work of LGBT organizations and human rights defenders.” The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) released its in-depth 2015 report on state-sponsored homophobia this week, accompanied by a map of world laws. We see the analysis of the legal situation in countries as one…

Why the Church is Struggling to Hold Onto Millennial Catholics

By Kaya Oakes

…onaghan said in a statement this year that his intention in founding Ave Maria was to “help bring as many souls to heaven as possible,” which makes Ave Maria a natural setting for FOCUS. Ave Maria may be a small school, with just over a thousand students enrolled and some signs of financial problems, but Monaghan has ambitious ideas for what it might do to spread traditionalist Catholicism. He told the National Catholic Register that “you had no r…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…is now being examined in the lower house, is only a small step towards securing rights for homosexual families. They are particularly angry over the scrapping of a clause which would have allowed gay people to adopt their partners’ biological children – a proposal the prime minister, Matteo Renzi, was forced to dump under Catholic pressure. Taiwan: Religious Coalition Calls for McDonald’s Boycott over Coming-Out Ad The Alliance of Taiwan Religious…

Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy

By Katherine Kelaidis

…suggests that the culture-war mentality (not to mention the chilling authoritarianism) that we see present in the OCA Synod’s most recent statement is, at the very least, deeply influenced by traditional American Christianity, whether it be evangelical or mainline Protestant, Catholic, LDS, or another denomination. Christian nationalists are on the rise and statements like those released last week suggest that the OCA is looking for its place at…

Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community

By Andrea Malji and Amarnath Amarasingam

…esty International, said in a statement, “At this difficult time, the authorities should be bringing communities together and not deepening divisions between them.” Karu Jayasuriya, the current Speaker of the Parliament, tweeted, “Both Covid and racism are killer contagions, that sickens anyone who catches them. Ironically, we lock down on one, and open the floodgates to the other.” The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom a…