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Washington (AFP) - The United Methodist Church, which has some 10 million members around the world, repealed on Wednesday a ban on ordaining gay clergy and same-sex marriage. Church leadership, at a conference held in North Carolina, approved the moves in a 692-51 vote. The church removed its 1984 ban on the ordination of clergy who are "self-avowing practicing homosexuals." It also decided that clergy who perform same-sex marriages will not be subject to any penalties. Neither will clergy or churches which refuse to hold same-sex weddings. "Delegates and observers applauded after the vote," t...
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Cocullo (Italie) (AFP) - Les serpents, qui habituellement suscitent la peur des humains, sont au centre d'une antique procession religieuse qui se tient chaque 1er mai à Cocullo, un village perché dans les montagnes des Abruzzes, dans le centre de l'Italie. Chaque année, la statue de saint Dominique abbé (connu aussi comme saint Dominique de Sora) quitte l'église pour être portée en procession dans les ruelles de ce petit village après avoir été recouverte de serpents recueillis par des habitants les semaines précédentes. Saint Dominique abbé (951-1031), qui vécut dans la région autour de l'an...
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A Molotov cocktail was thrown at the only synagogue in Warsaw to have survived the Nazi onslaught during World War II, the police confirmed to the Polish news agency PAP following a report made to the police. The Israeli ambassador to Poland, Yacov Livne, published a photo on X, formerly Twitter, showing burn marks on the Nożyk Synagogue in the centre of the city. "Outrageous anti-Semitic attacks such as this can not be tolerated today," Livne wrote. "The perpetrators must be found and punished." Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorsk wrote on X that the synagogue's rabbi had written that so...
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The head of the Bavarian opposition party in the German parliament, or Bundestag, has called for tough consequences following a demonstration in Hamburg in which speakers called for an Islamist caliphate to replace German democracy. "Anyone who wants to introduce sharia [strict Islamic law] in Germany and declare a caliphate is an enemy of our democracy," Alexander Dobrindt, the head of the Bundestag's faction for Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), told the Bild newspaper. "The state must confront them with consistency and rigour," he said. More than 1,000 people attended the Hamburg rall...
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The head of the Bavarian opposition party in the German parliament, or Bundestag, has called for tough consequences following a demonstration in Hamburg in which speakers called for an Islamist caliphate to replace German democracy. "Anyone who wants to introduce sharia [strict Islamic law] in Germany and declare a caliphate is an enemy of our democracy," Alexander Dobrindt, the head of the Bundestag's faction for Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), told the Bild newspaper. "The state must confront them with consistency and rigour," he said. More than 1,000 people attended the Hamburg rall...
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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is carrying out searches on May 1 at Metropolitan Luka (Andrii Kovalenko) of the Moscow-linked Ukrainian church, a source in law enforcement agencies confirmed for the Kyiv Independent on May 1. Kovalenko is the metropolitan bishop of Zaporizhzhia and Melitopol of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). The source did not specify the reasons behind the searches. Chesno, a public transparency-focused Ukrainian NGO, accused Kovalenko of spreading pro-Russian propaganda and justifying Moscow's aggression against Ukraine. In 2023, Ko...
Kyiv Independent
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is carrying out searches on May 1 at Metropolitan Luka (Andrii Kovalenko) of the Moscow-linked Ukrainian church, a source in law enforcement agencies confirmed for the Kyiv Independent on May 1. Kovalenko is the metropolitan bishop of Zaporizhzhia and Melitopol of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). The source did not specify the reasons behind the searches. Chesno, a public transparency-focused Ukrainian NGO, accused Kovalenko of spreading pro-Russian propaganda and justifying Moscow's aggression against Ukraine. In 2023, Ko...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is carrying out searches on May 1 at Metropolitan Luka (Andrii Kovalenko) of the Moscow-linked Ukrainian church, a source in law enforcement agencies confirmed for the Kyiv Independent on May 1. Kovalenko is the metropolitan bishop of Zaporizhzhia and Melitopol of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). The source did not specify the reasons behind the searches. Chesno, a public transparency-focused Ukrainian NGO, accused Kovalenko of spreading pro-Russian propaganda and justifying Moscow's aggression against Ukraine. In 2023, Ko...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
The head of the Bavarian opposition party in the German parliament, or Bundestag, has called for tough consequences following a demonstration in Hamburg in which speakers called for an Islamist caliphate to replace German democracy. "Anyone who wants to introduce sharia [strict Islamic law] in Germany and declare a caliphate is an enemy of our democracy," Alexander Dobrindt, the head of the Bundestag's faction for Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), told the Bild newspaper. "The state must confront them with consistency and rigour," he said. More than 1,000 people attended the Hamburg rall...
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The head of the Bavarian opposition party in the German parliament, or Bundestag, has called for tough consequences following a demonstration in Hamburg in which speakers called for an Islamist caliphate to replace German democracy. "Anyone who wants to introduce sharia [strict Islamic law] in Germany and declare a caliphate is an enemy of our democracy," Alexander Dobrindt, the head of the Bundestag's faction for Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), told the Bild newspaper. "The state must confront them with consistency and rigour," he said. More than 1,000 people attended the Hamburg rall...
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