For our faith-based readers and history buffs too---NUMBER 32-- one of our most widely traveled and very popular series here at Everything Croton-----SEVERAL ARTICLES BELOW.....CLICK ON THE PHOTOS AND LINKS:
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VATICAN HONORS MACHAERUS EXCAVATOR, Professor Győző Vörös, member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts and frequent BAR author, has received the highest pontifical award for his archaeological work at Machaerus, King Herod’s palace-fortress east of the Dead Sea in modern-day Jordan. Machaerus is the place where Salome danced before her stepfather, Herod Antipas, and where John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded....READ MORE FROM BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY HERE.
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FREE SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS - OHIO PROFESSOR WHO REFUSED SCHOOL ORDER ON TRANSGENDER STUDENT'S PRONOUNS WINS IN COURT PLUS LEGAL DECISION LINK; read more here.
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Follow-up to historic Brooklyn church vandalism last week/BENSONHURST, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A 29-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested in connection with an arson last week at a Brooklyn synagogue and for vandalizing a church a week earlier. According to police, 29-year-old Ali Alaheri was taken into custody around 6 p.m. Friday. MORE FROM ABC7 EYEWITNESS NEWS HERE.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help restore the church.
MORE ON THIS FROM THE POST https://nypost.com/2021/05/22/nyc-man-busted-for-vandalizing-church-also-torched-yeshiva-cops/
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TO SEE THE LAST EDITION OF THIS SERIES, NUMBER THIRTY-ONE, FOR OUR FAITH BASED READERS---AND HISTORY BUFFS TOO--HISTORIC BROOKLYN CHURCH, VANDALISM, DR. VODDIE BAUCHAM, HAMILTON'S GUNS SELL FOR $1.15 MIL, COLUMBUS STATUE VANDALIZED AGAIN; READ MORE AT https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/05/number-thirty-one-for-our-faith-based.html
UPDATED: CALIFORNIA CHURCHES WIN AGAINST NEWSOM https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/05/amen-complete-reversal-califonia.html
THANK YOU! REQUIRED READING! LEGAL DECISION----THAPAR, Circuit Judge. Traditionally, American universities have been beacons of intellectual diversity and academic freedom. They have prided themselves on being forums where controversial ideas are discussed and debated. And they have tried not to stifle debate by picking sides. But Shawnee State chose a different route: It punished a professor for his speech on a hotly contested issue. And it did so despite the constitutional protections afforded by the First Amendment. The district court dismissed the professor’s free-speech and free-exercise claims. We see things differently and reverse. READ IT AT https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/21a0071p-06.pdf
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