A Kentucky church is under fire after performing a mock execution by firing squad in front of kids during bible school.
The disturbing viral video shows children at Mount Olivet Baptist Church chanting, "Take him out! Blow him up!" as men dressed in military gear point guns and pretend to shoot multiple rounds into a man lying on the stage.
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You can see the pastor leading the chant during the mock execution ... and kids giggle and laugh while the mock firing squad victim gets dragged offstage and outside.
Louis Farrakhan's wife of more than 70 years has passed away ... the Nation of Islam announced Saturday.
The Honorable Minister @LouisFarrakhan with deep sadness yet with profound gratitude to Allah informs you that his beloved wife of 72 years, the First Lady of the Nation of Islam, Mother Khadijah has returned to Allah (may Allah be pleased). pic.twitter.com/W9K4jG6v4E@OfficialNOI
The religious organization released a statement ... beginning with a verse from the Quran before stating Mother Khadijah Farrakhan -- the Nation of Islam's First Lady -- has "returned to Allah."
In the post, which was reposted by Louis, the Nation of Islam says it remembers Khadijah as a "loving wife, mother, a faithful devoted follower of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad." Elijah Muhammad was one of the leaders of the Nation of Islam before Farrakhan.
If you thought the beef between Pete Davidson and Kanye West was over, then think again ... because Pete may have just poured gasoline on the fire.
Here's the deal ... Pete came out on stage at the Kia Forum in L.A. Sunday night to roast Kevin Hart ... but he also cracked jokes about the late Charlie Kirk, Tony Hinchcliffe, Lizzo and, of course, Kanye.
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Aiming below the belt, Pete let it rip, "I was in a beef with Kanye, so I’ve taken shots from better gay Nazis.”
Erika Kirk delivered a commencement speech at Hillsdale College Saturday that had a mix of personal memories along with a strong push for graduates to consider getting married young.
Speaking to roughly 5,000 people, Erika told graduates that building strong relationships early in life can shape everything that follows ... using her own experience with her late husband, Charlie Kirk, as an example.
EK revealed her and Charlie often spent their time together discussing history, philosophy, and political figures ... something she encouraged students to continue doing in their own relationships. However, a key theme of her speech centered on marriage and family, as she urged graduates to think seriously about settling down earlier rather than later.
A teacher at a Christian school in Florida has been charged with battery after an alleged incident that sounds like something out of “Matilda.”
Cops say Michael Alvarez put green painter’s tape on a student’s mouth because he allegedly laughed while another student read scripture in class on Monday ... this according to an arrest affidavit obtained by CBS News Miami.
The report says this went down at the First United Methodist Christian School in Homestead, just south of Miami ... where the alleged victim says he was singled out for causing commotion.
A pack of unruly teens went wild inside a New York City Scientology building Saturday ... leaving a trail of damage and even injuring an employee in the process.
The terrifying incident went down at the Church's building on W 46th street -- just a few steps away from Times Square -- at around 4:24 PM, the NYPD tells TMZ. Officers responded to a call for a burglary in progress after the mob forced entry into the building through a side door, causing property damage.
Police say the caller -- a 30-year-old male -- was kicked in the leg and injured, but not hospitalized. The hoodlums fled before police arrived, and no arrests have been made. The investigation is still open.
The Church of Scientology tells TMZ the intruders broke a locked door to gain entry and in addition to injuring one of their employees, used a racial slur against another. They say the disruption "endangered staff, parishioners and visitors, including individuals attending a seminar at the time."
The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a call of a reported 50 juveniles causing a disturbance at a Church of Scientology building in Hollywood recently ... amid a wave of social media videos showing people attempting to sprint as far as they can into the secretive organization's structures.
This particular breach went down last weekend at the Scientology Information Center on Hollywood Boulevard. LAPD tells TMZ ... by the time officers showed up, the juveniles had fled. Despite the call being for 50 individuals, we're told it was only actually seven.
The above video shows a similar infiltration going down at the same place -- youngsters storm into the building whooping and yelling, running through the halls without a plan. Folks online are dubbing these intrusions "speed runs."
Things got bloody in Rome ... but it's all for the cameras, with actor Andrzej Chyra going full method as Pope John Paul II.
Check the video -- the acclaimed Polish star was deep in character for the upcoming historical thriller "Santo Subito!" ... recreating the 1981 assassination attempt and dramatically collapsing after the "shot," fake blood splattered all over.
The scene's no joke ... packed with extras to mirror the real-life moment when Mehmet Ali Ağca opened fire as the Pope entered St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.
The Church of Scientology is asking for a judge to make the Los Angeles Police Department hand over information about alleged leaks regarding Leah Remini and the church leader’s wife ... TMZ has learned.
According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, lawyers for the Church are asking a judge to force the LAPD to turn over documents immediately.
The Church is pissed the LAPD failed to identify who leaked the Missing Persons Report filed in 2013, which claimed Scientology leader David Miscavige’s wife, Shelly, was missing.
President Donald Trump's making sure no one will mistake him for Jesus Christ this time around ... reposting a picture of himself standing alongside God's only son -- instead of one wearing his garments.
POTUS reshared an image the account "Irish for Trump" posted on X ... in which DJT leans close to Jesus -- with the two surrounded by a halo of light. A massive American flag frames them.
The OG post jokes God might be playing a "Trump card" in order to take down "satanic, demonic, child sacrificing monsters." Trump clearly agrees ... captioning his post, "The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!! President DJT."
Congressman Dan Meuser made some solid points in the beef between Donald Trump and Pope Leo ... and the Rep. from Pennsylvania is pretty much Team Trump.
Charlie asked him squarely -- who does he ride with -- and Meuser didn't hold back. On foreign policy, he thinks the Pope had a narrow view of peace when he condemned the war in Iran. He says there's virtue in peace through strength, and worries what would have happened in WWII if everyone followed the Pope's philosophy.
Meuser also felt it was curious the Pope wasn't condemning the atrocities in Iran, where leaders slaughtered tens of thousands of their own people.
Senator Pete Ricketts, by contrast, was crickets when it came to taking a side. He's aware of the beef, but he doesn't want to be forced to choose -- he says it's like having to choose between your mother and your father.
President Donald Trumpis done with one of his most ardent supporters Riley Gaines, after she dared to criticize him for posting an A.I. image of himself looking like Jesus Christ.
Here's the deal ... Gaines, a former NCAA swimmer and current anti-trans activist, posted a message on X, asking Trump to show a "little humility" and refrain from mocking God.
That, of course, pissed off the Commander-in-Chief, who went after Gaines -- after he deleted the controversial image due to mounting pressure from his base and from Catholics, who saw the photo as blasphemous.
As you can see, the image depicts Trump in a Jesus-like robe, putting one hand on the forehead of a sick man in a hospital bed while a divine light shines in his other hand.
Rep. Johnathan Jackson is firmly in Pope Leo's corner amid a recent beef with President Trump ... and he's reminding POTUS he's not God.
A photog got the Congressman from Illinois arriving in Washington D.C. Monday after Congress' two-week paid vacation and asked him about Trump's attacks on the Pope.
Jackson, the son of the late Reverend Jesse Jackson, says Pope Leo is not to be messed with, and Trump needs to be reigned in.
Trump vs. the Pope -- it's all the buzz in D.C., but asking a Republican Senator whose side he or she is on is a Sophie's Choice no one wants to make.
In response to a personal attack by President Donald Trump the night before, Pope Leo told journalists on the papal plane to Algeria:
“I have no fear of the Trump administration or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do, what… pic.twitter.com/zV6FuacGSM@catholicourtney
Enter Senator Ted Cruz. Charlie wanted to know who he rides with, but Cruz wouldn't weigh in, no matter how many different ways he was asked.
He was way more receptive to the scandal of now-former Congressman Eric Swalwell. The word in D.C. is that the allegations were an open secret in the House for a long time ... but no one uttered a public peep until the media broke the story.
President Donald Trump got some heat for posting -- and ultimately deleting -- an A.I.-generated pic of himself as Jesus ... but he says that wasn't his intention.
In a news conference Monday, Donald said ... "I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor." Trump claims he thought the image was of him as a Red Cross doc because there "was a Red Cross worker" in the photo.
While it's true there is a doctor in the pic ... the A.I. rendering of Trump shows himself wearing a white tunic and a red shawl -- which is what Jesus is commonly depicted wearing.
