At least two statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary have been attacked in recent days in the U.S., while churches have also come under attack, with one being set alight while parishioners prepared for Mass. The Catholic News Agency reported that last Saturday morning, the Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Ocala, was set aflame […]
Not the result they were praying for in Brussels, to put it mildly: “Poland’s incumbent President Andrzej Duda has narrowly beaten challenger Rafal Trzaskowski in Sunday’s presidential vote. The National Electoral Commission said Mr Duda had won 51.2% of the votes. It is Poland’s slimmest presidential election victory since the end of communism in 1989. […]
If you are a daily reader of Gript, you’d have encountered this conclusion, about the recent surge in Coronavirus in the US, on our site two days ago: You can see that the surge in hospitalisations is more recent than the surge in cases, and that makes sense. Some people who were diagnosed three weeks […]
Some of the world’s best known writers and thinkers have signed an open letter in Harper’s Magazine expressing concern about ‘cancel culture’ and a growing intolerance of opposing views. “The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted,” they write. The letter says “censoriousness is also […]
One of the more unusual things that’s been happening in the (increasingly ignored) world of Coronavirus recently is that the massive surge in cases in the United States has not, as yet, been accompanied by a surge in deaths from the virus. This has prompted some people – in and outside of science – to […]
Gun violence has exploded in New York city after authorities disbanded a special anti-crime unit on June 15, with three times as many shootings from the same period in 2019, according to police statistics. The New York Post revealed that the disturbing figures also revealed a “shocking rise in gunfire” as the number of incidents […]
Kanye West for President? Come off it. There’s no way they’re going to elect a loudmouthed celebrity with a big twitter following and no prior political experience, is there? They can’t? Can they? Yes they Kanye. https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1279575273365594112 The single biggest thing going against him, believe it or not, isn’t that he’s a pop star with […]
The Chinese embassy has released a statement saying that it wishes to express its “grave concern and strong opposition” to a statement recently published by Minister Simon Coveney. It says that the Minister’s statement made “groundless accusations” against China’s new security legislation for Hong Kong. Minister Coveney had said that he was “concerned” about the […]
Confession: When yours truly woke up this morning, it was not my intention to write not one, but two stories about paedophilia in the one day. It’s a messed up world, folks. But them’s the breaks: British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been charged with playing a role in the “sexual exploitation and abuse” of multiple […]
A wedding in the eastern Indian state of Bihar is being described as a “super-spreader” event after the groom died and between 80 and 100 guests tested positive for Covid-19. Some 350 people attended the wedding in breach of Covid-19 regulations. The groom (30), who was said to have displayed symptoms of the virus before […]
More than 260,000 people have signed an online petition calling for a new movie called Habit to be scrapped because it ” depicts Jesus as a lesbian woman”. The petition on Change.org was started by a woman identified only as Vivian N, who says the film is “blasphemous” and “Christianophobic garbage”. “A new blasphemous Hollywood film […]
Police in Hong Kong have confirmed that nearly 200 people in the region have been arrested less than 24 hours after the new National Security Law was imposed on Hong Kong by China. The law, which aims to clamp down on the protests that have been occurring in the city over the last year, was […]