Culture

The ceiling of the grand foyer of the Théâtre du Châtelet in central Paris was damaged by a hip-hop party only months after a costly two-year renovation.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The Dutch version of St. Nicholas is due to arrive in the Netherlands in an annual children´s party that has become the backdrop for increasingly acrimonious confrontations between supporters and opponents of his sidekick, Black Pete.

Fewer than one in five people, 18 per cent, in England and Wales say that the Bible is relevant to them, as the number of those professing a Christian faith continues to fall.

A member of the Swedish Centre party has said he sees both “disadvantages and advantages” to the practice of having a polygamous marriage.

Seattle schools are putting into place a K-12 curriculum to teach about how Western culture has “appropriated” math and used it to oppress minorities.

Poland’s conservative-populist government has rejected received opinion that “the economy, stupid” must be centre stage in any election campaign, putting national identity and public safety first as the country heads to the polls on October 13th.

Hong Kong police on Friday rescinded their ban against a protest march scheduled for Saturday afternoon, although they added a restriction that the event — which is somewhat tangential to the main thrust of the protest movement — must conclude sooner than originally scheduled to reduce the risk of violent behavior after dark.

“The right has abandoned the culture,” lamented Roger Simon, co-founder of PJ Media, ahead of the publication of his latest novel, The Goat.

Theresa May’s expected successor Boris Johnson is under fire from the Muslim Council of Britain for past comments suggesting “something about Islam” was responsible for the Islamic world ending up “centuries behind” the West.

Michael Malice reflected on Andrew Breitbart’s “revelation” of culture’s coloring of politics in a Friday interview on Breitbart News Daily.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s culture minister says the country is returning to Namibia a centuries-old stone cross, even though it was originally of European origin, as a gesture of reconciliation.

BERLIN — Germany’s two main Christian churches will lose millions of members over the coming decades and will have to tighten their financial belts as a result, according to a study published Thursday.

Modern architects have begun circling the charred remains of Notre Dame, proposing that it should not be faithfully restored, but rebuilt with “contemporary” features such as a glass roof, steel spire, or even a minaret.

Turkey “will never be in Europe”, Matteo Salvini has vowed, launching plans for an EU which “recognises [national] identity and culture” rather than one shaped around the demands of business and finance.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has hit back at Western European critics, stating clearly that multiculturalism has no place in his country.

British Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright appeared to threaten heavier regulation of streaming services like Amazon Prime and Netflix to “encourage” them to “reflect and represent” the “full diversity” of the United Kingdom, like the BBC.

Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó has said mass immigration is creating “parallel societies” in Europe and undermining security, and that Christians are more persecuted than any other religious group.

Former Labour leader Tony Blair has admitted there is a “nascent alliance” between Islamists and the political left in Britain.

Crispin Blunt, the “Conservative” MP for Reigate, is seeking to abolish the 461-year-old tradition of Parliamentary Prayers.

The public programmes curator for the National Trust has said the charity should stop emphasising the importance of families in stately homes as it “privileges heterosexual lives”.

BBC Four has announced it will air a number of new shows focused on the ‘hidden’ history of ethnic minorities in the UK next month, as part of a season which will “celebrate British diversity”.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has warned mass migration from Africa would destroy Europe’s culture.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Denmark has adopted a law requiring anyone who becomes a Danish citizen to shake hands at the naturalization ceremony. The move is widely seen as aimed at some Muslims who for religious reasons decline to touch members of the opposite sex.

Between 200 and 300 illegal migrants attempted to storm the Comédie-Française in Paris on Sunday, demanding to speak to the theatre’s deputy director so he could arrange a meeting between them and France’s interior minister Christophe Castaner.

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has urged migrants to “completely abide by the laws, customs, traditions, and culture” of the countries they move to, or — better yet — to work on making their home countries worth staying in.

Europeans “have the right to defend our borders, our lifestyle, our heritage and our culture,” the Czech prime minister has said, attacking “divisive” EU plans to foist mass third world migration on the bloc’s eastern states.

New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says “constant immigration” to the United States and other countries will lead to “no difference” between countries and “no culture” around the world. 

UK police pushed charges after less than one in 38 forced marriage reports, with just three convictions in the four years since it was made illegal in the UK.

A couple who threatened to murder and “chop up” their daughter after tricking her into travelling to Bangladesh for a forced marriage with her cousin has been jailed for eight years.

Viktor Orbán has told supporters he will use his third consecutive election victor as an opportunity to advance into a “new era”, with Central Europe becoming a bastion of Christian culture and nation-state democracy as multicultural globalism turns liberal democracies into “liberal non-democracies”.