AfD seeks to revise church payments to ensure public funds are not used to promote “rainbow ideology”
Alternative for Germany (AfD) party leader Ulrich Siegmund moved quickly to advance a platform that targeted more than $50 million in annual public payments to the Catholic and Protestant churches after the right-wing party scored a decisive first-place finish in Saxony Anhalt’s state election on September 6th, 2026.
Fireworks blast kills 11 people and injures more than 80 during patron saint festival in central Mexico
A cache of fireworks stored beside a parish church exploded on the night of Sept. 5, 2026, collapsing a wall and a concrete slab during a patron saint celebration in Santa MarÃa Canchesdá. The blast killed at least 10 people and sent dozens more to hospitals, including two priests.