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Pope Francis Quotes Buddha at Interreligious Event in MongoliaIn his speech, Pope Francis twice cited the Dhammapada, the most widely-read Buddhist text that is a collection of sayings of the Buddha.... "The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind, the fragrance of those who live according to virtue spreads in all directions,’” the Pope said, quoting the Dhammapada.... In his speech, Pope Francis quoted another line attributed to the Buddha: “‘The wise man rejoices in giving, and by that alone does he become happy.”The Pope also cited the writings of Mahatma Gandhi on having “purity of...

An Illinois art teacher has been fired after parents made school officials aware of social media posts that read “Hail Satan” and indicated the teacher is “violent and hurtful.” During a special board meeting Sunday, officials with the District 33C Board of Education in Homer Glen, located about 30 miles southwest of Chicago, dismissed a teacher who was identified by conservative influencer Libs of TikTok as “Kris Martin.” Video from the meeting shared by Libs of TikTok showed the decision was made to dismiss art teacher Kristopher Martin "effective immediately." A statement provided to a local Patch reporter said officials...

Last month, New Mexico’s pro-abortion Governor Lujan-Grisham’s taxpayer funded abortion hotline was caught referring women to The Satanic Temple Health (TST Health) abortion clinic. New Mexico Alliance for Life released its findings through public records that the hotline is sending women to what is advertised as “the world’s first religious abortion clinic.” The pro-life groups released new records to LifeNews today confirming Lujan-Grisham’s taxpayer funded abortion hotline continues referring women to the Satanic abortion business. “This week, New Mexico Alliance for Life obtained additional documents from an open records request from the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH), further confirming...

The Satanic Temple has placed at least one pro-abortion billboard in Arkansas. The billboard comes as the group has dropped its lawsuit against Lamar Advertising Company over a set of pro-abortion billboards the company rejected in 2020. In 2020 the Satanic Temple proposed four billboard designs that falsely claimed The Satanic Temple’s “religious abortion ritual averts many state restrictions” on abortion and that “abortions save lives.” The group reportedly wanted Lamar Advertising Company to place the billboards near pregnancy resource centers in Arkansas. Lamar Advertising Company understandably rejected the billboard designs for being “misleading and offensive.” The Satanic Temple sued...

A conflict between The Satanic Temple and musician and Christian activist Sean Feucht is poised to escalate as the Temple prepares to host its first Let Us Burn concert in the Indiana State Capitol on Sept. 28 at noon. The concert is meant to offer an alternative to Feucht’s Christian-themed Let Us Worship concerts being held at or around state capitols. Shortly after announcing the Let Us Burn concert, the Temple received a cease-and-desist letter from Feucht’s lawyers demanding it stop using the tour logo in promoting the event, citing trademark infringement. “Your use of the “Let Us Burn” and...

(RNS) — Like many Republican presidential candidates, Vivek Ramaswamy has been outspoken about the role of faith and society. An enthusiastic second-generation Indian American, Ramaswamy also isn’t shy about talking about his own faith. “I’m a person of faith. Evangelical Christians across the state are also people of faith,” he said in a July interview with NBC News. “We found commonality in our need to defend religious liberty, to stand for faith and patriotism and stand unapologetically for the fact that we are one nation under God.” To reach evangelical Christians, the largest religious group skewing Republican, Ramaswamy has affirmed...

Public school students were instructed to create a kachina doll representing spirits worshiped by Native Americans, which one boy’s parents say violates their Messianic Jewish beliefs.LEXINGTON, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) — Parents of an Ohio fifth-grader say their son’s First Amendment rights were violated when he was coerced during class into making a pagan idol, that is, the likeness of a spirit worshiped by Native Americans. Students at one of Lexington Local Schools’ elementary institutions were instructed in class to make a Kachina doll, used by the Hopi Indians as a “sacred object” to teach children about spirits believed to have “special...

In this video, Bodie Hodge reveals the horrifying reality of Satanism; an active religion with about 100,000 adherents worldwide. Some Satanists teach Satan as the god figure while others teach a form of atheism using Satanic imagery. They are inconsistent within themselves and arbitrary at a foundational level.

(Catholic World Report) — The people of Salem were told they could save their souls and lives by confessing to be a witch. Today, teenage girls are told they will feel much better about themselves once their breasts are removed. And so-called adults call it “affirmative care.” For the last couple of years, J.K. Rowling has been the victim of a witch hunt. The author of the Harry Potter series has been harassed, hounded, shouted down, and targeted with numerous death threats. Rowling is not being hunted down by church folks with pitchforks. Instead, the woman who did more to...

The Satanic Temple filed suit last week in an Illinois federal district court challenging the city's exclusion of its clergy from delivering an invocation before Chicago City Council. The complaint (full text) in The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Chicago, (ND IL, filed 5/3/2023) alleges in part: 2. The City of Chicago has a longstanding practice of inviting clergy to open each meeting of its City Council with a prayer. 3. Plaintiffs, The Satanic Temple Inc. (“TST”), and Adam Vavrick, an ordained minister of the Satanic Temple and a leader of TST’s Illinois congregation, seek to take part in...

CNA Staff, May 4, 2023 / 16:30 pm A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that The Satanic Temple must be allowed to hold its “After School Satan Club” in a public middle school in Pennsylvania’s Saucon Valley School District. U.S. District Court Judge John Gallagher, sitting in Allentown, issued the preliminary injunction just days after The Satanic Temple held its second annual conference called “SatanCon” in Boston, which was heavily protested by Catholics. The Satanic Temple, which, according to its website, denies the existence of God and Satan, is a political activist group known for protesting religious symbolism in...

Furious Christian groups are attempting to shut down the 'largest Satanic gathering in history' after hundreds of The Satanic Temple's members descended on Boston. The annual SatanCon festival arrived in town on Friday to celebrate the organization's 10-year anniversary, kicking off with a bizarre opening ceremony that saw speakers tear up the bible and perform 'un-baptisms'. But the arrival of the Devil worshippers on the East Coast has sparked backlash from religious groups, with crowds gathering Saturday to stage a series of demonstrations across the city and combat the hellish three-day event with 'intense prayer'. It comes after Dr Jaymz...

An Oregon woman has sued an influential Buddhist monk and trusted mentor over a litany of alleged sexual offenses including rape and pressuring her to keep an unwanted pregnancy. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche, who also goes by Choying Rabjam, also allegedly asked her to sit in his lap and 'suck his tongue like a lollipop,' echoing accusations against the Dalai Lama earlier this week. Rachel Montgomery, now 30, has filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual battery and sex trafficking in 2011, when she was just 19 years old. The two met when Montgomery was a teenager who studied under...

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What a strange commentary on our times. One of the only prominent American voices reacting with the appropriate degree of disgust to a horrifying video of the Dalai Lama appearing to abuse a young boy is rapper Cardi B. If you haven't seen the viral footage of the Dalai Lama's February event in northern India – you should. It's shocking and the world cannot look away. The video shows the 87-year-old spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, considered by his followers to be the living embodiment of the virtues of the religion and the reincarnation of the living Buddha, kissing a...

Members of American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) Student Action questioned the educational value of these clubs and the threat they pose to students.(LifeSiteNews) — Two volunteers from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) Student Action project spoke out last week against the increasingly popular “After School Satan Clubs” popping up at public schools across the country. The remarks were made during a school board meeting in Chesapeake, Virginia, where one of the Satan clubs was recently permitted to form, sparking backlash from the community. “The primary and basic...

ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 18, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). The walls of Sacred Heart Church, located in downtown Bordeaux, France, were vandalized with satanic graffiti and communist and anarchist symbols the night of March 12-13. In addition, the vandals burned trash on the church’s esplanade. The news was confirmed on March 13 by Constance Pluviaud, head of communications for the Archdiocese of Bordeaux. “On the night of March 12-13, the door and some of the walls of the façade of the Church of the Sacred Heart were defaced with graffiti. A trash fire in front of the church was...

'Holy Greta!': 'Climate Religion' Skewered as Thunberg Gets Honorary Doctorate in TheologyThe award has triggered a powerful backlash among Thunberg's compatriots on social media, some of whom point to it as proof that environmentalism is a religion, whereas others argued that it debases the honorary doctorate as such.The theological faculty at the University of Helsinki has decided to elevate eco-activist Greta Thunberg to an honorary doctor.The higher educational institution has voiced plans to lionize 30 "highly meritorious people from around the world" by granting them honorary doctorate degrees in 2023, which it dubbed the "jubilee year of the promotion."

We are in the midst of transitioning from an objectively true, historically consistent, analogue world and into a world that is subjectively purposed, revolutionary, and digital in construct. In fact, more so than ever before, we are in a period of time where the “what is” is being demonized and the wizard’s trick of “what it should be” is being lauded as a preferred pathway to the real. A hyperreal world of dreams, visions, technology and digital realization is in many ways attempting to take the place of what mankind has always called “reality.”

The “largest Satanic gathering in history” is set to take place in Boston, Massachusetts this spring and will require attendees to wear masks and be vaccinated against COVID-19. The controversial convention, dubbed “SatanCon 2023,” is scheduled to take place on April 28-30 and will be hosted by The Satanic Temple in commemoration of the organization’s 10 year anniversary. According to local reports, SatanCon 2023 is themed after an ancient springtime German holiday known as “Witches Night” or “Hexennacht.” Tickets for the “weekend of blasphemy and remembrance” have reportedly all been sold out.