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How a Reactionary Peruvian Movement Went Multinational
​Last spring, the Mayday USA tour—a traveling road show of Christian parents’-rights activists campaigning against gender and sexual expression in children—brought its message to five American cities. Each of its appearances, in highly visible public arenas such as Times Square in New York City and Discovery Green in Houston, was something between a political rally, a Christian tent revival, and a college-football tailgate party. Music pulsated from the sound system, hands were held aloft in praise, and speakers assured the crowd that they were a righteous silent majority, fed up and ready to roar. Invoking Jesus’s love, activist influencers and charismatic pastors unleashed a barrage of alarmist rhetoric aiming to channel parental anxiety into a broader Christian-supremacist project. (The Nation; 1.13.26) READMORE>>>>>

October 27, 2025: Kuwait Times reported: New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani was boosted by prominent US leftists at a get-out-the-vote rally Sunday, as the Democratic socialist and Donald Trump foe closed in on the city’s top job. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke ahead of Mamdani, who has gone from an outsider to the unpredictable race’s frontrunner — and a standard bearer with them on the Democratic Party’s left. Sunday’s rally at a Queens stadium came after early voting in the city of 8.5 million began the day before, with Election Day scheduled for Nov 4 and the new mayor taking office in the New Year. Ocasio-Cortez, whose congressional district contains portions of Queens, said that on election day “we will send a loud message to President Donald Trump that his authoritarianism is no good here,” sparking chants of “AOC”. Sanders, of Vermont, said “people all over the world are paying attention to what will happen here on Tuesday”. “These are not normal times... this election takes place at a time when we have a president who has given a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top one percent,” he said. “Donald Trump is paying attention to this election.” “She’s there for working people,” Mamdani said of AOC, after struggling with a defective teleprompter. The senator (Sanders) dared to stand alone for so long. I speak the language of Democratic socialism only because he spoke it first.” 

November 12, 2025: SBC7NY reported: Police in Queens are searching for the vandal who targeted three churches in Queens with anti-Christian messages. The vandalism all took place on Sunday, October 5 during the early morning hours. And in one case, the suspect also broke two statues. The vandal was spotted on video painting anti-Christian statements on the facade of The Refuge Church of Christ on Mott Avenue at 1:40 a.m. The next target for the vandal was The City of Oasis Church of Deliverance also on Mott Avenue at 1:44 a.m. The last known vandalism happened at 2 a.m. at St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church on New Haven Avenue.

​April 17, 2024: Life News reported: A diverse coalition of religious groups was at the New York Court of Appeals yesterday to continue their fight against the state’s abortion mandate. In Diocese of Albany v. Harris, a group of Anglican and Catholic nuns, Catholic dioceses, Christian churches, and faith-based social ministries sued New York after it mandated that they cover abortion in their employee health insurance plans in violation of their religious beliefs. After state courts left the mandate in place, Becket, Jones Day and Tobin and Dempf, LLP, asked the Supreme Court to step in. In 2021, the Justices reversed the lower courts’ rulings and told them to reconsider the case. When the New York State Department of Financial Services initially proposed the abortion mandate, it promised to exempt employers with religious objections. However, after facing pressure from abortion activists, New York radically narrowed the exemption to cover only religious groups that both primarily teach religion and 
​primarily serve and hire those who share their faith. This exception does not apply to most religious ministries that seek to serve all people, regardless of faith. For example, the exemption doesn’t extend to the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm and their Teresian Nursing Home because they serve the elderly and dying regardless of religious affiliation.  

April 28, 2024: CBS News reported: Christians all over the world marked Holy Thursday, which commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ.
Archbishop of New York Timothy Cardinal Dolan blessed cases of free food and the New Yorkers receiving it. "It's a day, for me, to celebrate the fact that the teaching and work of Jesus continues," Dolan said. "This is a time to kind of affirm and celebrate the great works of charity, assistance, community involvement."

December 25, 2024: Audacity reported: Westchester County Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Joseph K. Spano announced that His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan of the New York Archdiocese held mass at the Westchester County Department of Correction. The mass was attended by a group of 60 residents, Deputy County Executive Ken Jenkins, WDOC personnel, Correction Advisory Board members, New York State Commission of Correction personnel and clergy representing diverse faiths, and touched on unity and redemption in this coming holiday season.Spano said, “We are mindful that being incarcerated during the holiday season presents additional challenges for our residents and their families. To have his Eminence Cardinal Dolan say Mass for our residents leading up to the Christmas Holiday is truly a gift and one that is sure to have a positive impact on their lives.”

December 25, 2024: Hudson Valley Press reported:  As he has done for years, Cardinal Timothy Dolan welcomed thousands to St. Patrick’s Cathedral for midnight mass, marking the beginning of Christmas with a message of hope and light. Let there be light as God’s recreation starts with that midnight dazzle,” he said. The traditional midnight mass was held at 12 a.m. on Wednesday, requiring tickets for attendance. This nearly 150-year-old tradition dates back to 1879, when the cathedral on Fifth Avenue first opened its doors. The cardinal spoke about the significance of the day with some humor. “God so loved the world, he did not send us a drone,” Dolan said, adding, “God so loved the world that he sent us His only Son.” His remarks were met with laughter and applause. The cathedral was filled with New Yorkers and tourists from around the world. Many gathered to find peace and reflect on the meaning of the holy day. 

Feb 28, 2023: HuffPost reported: Despite his vow to uphold the U.S. Constitution, Eric Adams said he “can’t separate” his Christian beliefs from his public duties.

March 9, 2023: Baptist Press reported: In some ways, New York City’s Maranatha Baptist Church wasn’t much different from thousands of other churches throughout North America struggling to engage its community.
Planted 25 years ago to reach the growing Romanian population in the surrounding Ridgewood neighborhood, Maranatha initially reached their Romanian neighbors faithfully, growing steadily along the way.

March 10, 2023: Axios reported: Case study: Rabbi Joshua Franklin, of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in East Hampton, New York, delivered what he warned his flock was a "plagiarized" sermon about the theme of vulnerability in a story from Genesis — and was shocked when congregants guessed that it had been written by his father or a famous rabbi rather than AI.

• "The more I was able to prompt [ChatGPT] and tell it what I was looking for and describe the style of how I wanted it to write, the better it got," Franklin said.
• One notable missing piece: the rabbi's own perspective and anecdotes. Had he written the sermon himself, "I would have told a story — something about me that modeled my own vulnerability and showed how it was a strength," he said.

March 12, 2023: Daily Mail reported: New York City's notorious 'bling pastor' Lamor Whitehead, the founder of Brooklyn's Leaders of Tomorrow International Church, was charged in December 2022 with scamming his parishioners out of more than $100,000 and lying to the FBI.   
Whitehead, who made headlines for preaching prosperity, was robbed at gunpoint by two men while he was giving a live-streamed sermon. 
It was later revealed that he had previously served two years in a state prison on multiple counts of identity fraud and grand larceny before he was released early for good behavior.
According to the indictment, Whitehead scammed one of his parishioners out of $90,000 from her retirement savings.
It says he had promised to buy the woman a home, but instead spent the money on luxury goods and clothing.
Separately, federal authorities allege Whitehead extorted an unnamed businessman out of $5,000 in April and May of 2022 and asked the man to lend him $50,000, promising he could make them both 'millions'.
The pastor also made a name for himself negotiating the surrender of a subway shooting suspect who was wanted for killing a Goldman Sachs employee.
In May 2022, Whitehead rolled up to the NYPD's Fifth Police Precinct on behalf of the shooting suspect in his $350,000 Rolls-Royce, wearing a Fendi blazer.
Whitehead, who denies the fraud allegations, was later hit with further fraud charges for fabricating bank records in an attempt to finance his million-dollar New Jersey mansion, federal prosecutors said.
The pastor allegedly created a fake bank account to get a mortgage loan in 2019 and altered bank records to make it appear that the LLC had an average balance of more than $2 million, when it actually had less than $10. 

Mar 7, 2022: Church Leaders reported:  Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, appeared at God’s Battalion of Prayer Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sunday where he defended himself against allegations that he had sexually harassed multiple women. In his first public appearance since his resignation, Cuomo claimed he had been canceled and said that God and “the Good Book” had been guiding him.

May 20, 2022: The Christian Beat reported: Hezekiah Walker’s music is part of the soundtrack of the African American church, and it is in the most challenging times that communities look to the church for comfort.
In the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Buffalo, New York, Hezekiah Walker received a call from city officials to help their community heal.