12/01/2020 UPDATE: ARTICLE HAS BEEN UPDATED WIRH A SCREENSHOT OF THE TWEET AS GEORGINA SMYTH HAS LOCKED HER TWEETS TO PRIVATE Australian Journalist Georgina Smyth, reporting for CBC News Vancouver in Canada tweeted an ill-received video where she staked out churches, filming worshippers entering. After capturing people on video committing the crime of attending a…
Mary Margaret Olohan Attorney General William Barr emphasized in a Tuesday statement that “even in times of emergency,” federal law prohibits religious discrimination. The attorney general released a statement Tuesday on religious practices and social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. The statement comes after Barr intervened in a Mississippi church’s lawsuit against Greenville police who…
Chris White on April 21, 2019 Republish Reprint Sri Lanka blocked Facebook, Instagram and other forms of social media Sunday as the country investigates explosions that killed more than 200 people and injured another 400. The decision to block social media was taken in reaction to false news reports spreading on social media following the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck According to The New York Times: Islamic State suicide bombers attacked two Coptic churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday, killing at least 40 worshipers and police officers stationed outside in the single deadliest day of violence against Christians in the country in decades. The militants claimed…