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Despte Macron’s ban on social media posts and news about the jihad violence in France, reports continue to leak out of the country. Rumble is currently unavailable in France. ... A 16th century church in France is set ablaze and burns to the ground during the riots that have engulfed France, spurred on by groups of migrant men. ... A 16th-century church was attacked and set on fire in Drosnay in the North-Eastern region of France as fresh violence erupted in the country recently. A video showing the church engulfed in massive fire has surfaced online.

In Germany, architecture is being "de-Christianized". Entire new neighbourhoods and urban areas are being built without a church in them: churches are just not planned in the projects, as if nobody even thought of them. The German Catholic news site Kreuz reports on this phenomenon with examples from an article by architecture critic Dankwart Guratzsch in the daily Die Welt. In Stuttgart, a large new district was built for 12,000 residents without a church. In Hamburg, another new neighbourhood for 12,000 residents was created without a church. Not only that: to realize this project, 19 churches were closed down, probably...

The Dechristianization of Western Europe is obvious from its contemporary way of life. It is obvious from reading any newspaper or watching any television programme in Western Europe. It is obvious from the sight of thousands of former Protestant and Catholic churches all over Western Europe, already converted to secular uses, or else newly up for sale. Little wonder that the political leaders of the ‘European Union’ refused to mention the Christian roots of Western Europe in their recently-written Constitution for that Union, for most of them seem not even to have known that these roots exist.

Most 'spiked' stories of 2003 Posted: December 31, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Back in the old days of newspapering in America – when reporters and editors still used typewriters, pencils and paper to craft their stories – news articles were carried by copy boys from one editor to another. The couriers picked up the copy in one wire basket and brought it to a desk on another. At each stage of the article's development, there would be new scrutiny. Spelling would be checked. The writing would be reworked. Potential legal problems would be considered. Headlines would be...