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LGBTQ Christians invoke ‘righteous rage’ at Capitol during Holy Week

A community of LGBTQ+ Christians began Holy Week with a proclamation of «righteous rage and holy hope» at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Monday.
Fox News Digital asked attendees at the Collective of Queer Christian Leaders event how «woman» should be defined in 2025. While some spoke about gender fluidity, spirituality and inclusivity, activists called for politicians to focus less on pronouns and more on delivering for Americans.
«While the right is interested in litigating biology, I’m interested in litigating humanity,» the Rev. Don Abram, the founder of Pride in the Pews, told Nicholas Ballasy of Fox News Digital. Abram pivoted from the question to saying God is in everyone, and all people are «deserving of rights, protections, resources and safety,» regardless of identity.
The pastor and member of Pride in the Pews, which is a Black LGBTQ+ advocacy group, said conservatives focusing on gender ideology is a distraction from the issues Americans care most about, like whether Medicaid will be cut or how tariffs will affect the economy.
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A community of LGBTQ+ Christians began Holy Week with a proclamation of «righteous rage and holy hope» at the U.S. Capitol. Fox News Digital asked event attendees to define «woman» in 2025. (Fox News Digital)
«I think the conversation on gender and who identifies, how they identify, it’s just a scapegoat for them to not focus on the real issues and the real problems that are affecting all of us,» Abram said.
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Guthrie Graves, an ordained Baptist deacon, said Americans might disagree on the fluidity of sex and gender, but «what we can all agree on is nobody should fear for their safety, or fear losing their job or face violence on the street.» He said a foundation of human rights should predicate debates about «human sexuality and gender.»
Other attendees, who answered the question more literally, said definitions of sexuality and gender are not so rigid.
«From a faith perspective, we are all children of God, and if someone identifies as transgender and claims that as their identity, then who is anyone else to argue with that?» Jan Lawrence, executive director of Reconciling Ministries Network, an LGBTQ+ justice organization within the United Methodist Church, told Fox News Digital.

U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., the first transgender member of Congress, walks through the U.S. Capitol before the start of the 119th Congress in Washington Jan. 3, 2025. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)
Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., became the first openly transgender person elected to Congress in November. Debates over which bathroom McBride was permitted to use dominated her first few weeks on the job after Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., advocated for a ban on transgender women using the women’s restrooms at the U.S. Capitol.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson later announced the U.S. House would institute a bathroom ban, stating all single-sex bathrooms were reserved for individuals of that biological sex. Johnson noted that every member of Congress has an office with a private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.
«I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families,» McBride said in a statement in November.
President Donald Trump, on his first day back in the Oval Office, issued an executive order establishing only two sexes, male and female.

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi announced a lawsuit against Maine Wednesday for allowing transgender women to continue playing women’s sports. Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills has refused to comply with Trump’s executive order restricting biological men from playing in girls and women’s sports.
Nearly two months ago, Trump and Mills sparred during a bipartisan meeting of governors at the White House during which Trump promised Mills he’d «see you in court.»
Last year, President Joe Biden proclaimed March 31, which fell on Easter Sunday, Transgender Day of Visibility to show «transgender and nonbinary Americans that we see them, they belong and they should be treated with dignity and respect.»
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This year, Trump’s new White House Faith Office has announced a robust Holy Week schedule to celebrate Easter.
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Trump administration demands $1B settlement from UCLA over campus antisemitism claims

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The Trump administration is seeking $1 billion from UCLA to settle discrimination and antisemitism allegations in exchange for restoring more than half a billion dollars in frozen grant funding to the university.
The proposed agreement sent to the school Friday requires UCLA to pay the federal government $1 billion over multiple installments, along with establishing a $172 million claims fund for alleged victims of violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
The Trump administration has already suspended $584 million in federal grants from UCLA after the Justice Department announced it found the school violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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The Trump administration is seeking $1 billion from UCLA to settle a lawsuit. (AP; Getty Images)
In a statement provided to Fox News Digital, UC President James Milliken said the university system had received the document with the offer and was reviewing it.
«Earlier this week, we offered to engage in good-faith dialogue with the (Justice) Department to protect the university and its critical research mission,» Milliken said. «As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.
«Americans across this great nation rely on the vital work of UCLA and the UC system for technologies and medical therapies that save lives, grow the U.S. economy and protect our national security.»
«Demanding $1 billion from a publicly-funded, leading research institution is a misuse of tax dollars that will hurt the University’s mission of serving students and the public,» he said in a statement. «UCLA, and the larger UC system, has taken meaningful steps to make it clear that combatting antisemitism and protecting Jewish students, faculty, and community members on campus is a top priority.»
«They have been committed to increasing security, strengthening policies against hate, and engaging directly with Jewish voices to better inform their approach,» he added. «If the Administration’s mission is truly to protect the Jewish community, they would be supporting that work – not hamstringing it with these outlandish demands that would only take away needed resources and services for students and faculty.»
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California state Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat whose district encompasses UCLA, said the Trump administration’s demand is «harming the engines of American power, innovation, and, indeed, greatness.»
The move came a day after California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized settlements between Columbia and Brown universities, both Ivy League schools, and the Trump administration.
«We’re not Brown, we’re not Columbia, and I’m not going to be governor if we act like that,» Newsom said while speaking in San Francisco. «Period. Full stop, I will fight like hell to make sure that doesn’t happen.»
Columbia will pay more than $220 million to resolve multiple federal civil rights investigations, including $21 million to settle claims of antisemitic employment discrimination against Jewish faculty after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel.
Brown will shell out $50 million over a decade to state workforce development organizations as part of a deal struck with the U.S. government.
In July, UCLA agreed to pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Jewish students and faculty members over the school’s handling of anti-Israel protests, including allowing protesters to ban Jews from a part of the campus known as a «Jew Exclusion Zone.»
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The lawsuit was brought last year by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which accused UCLA of «aiding and abetting» an antisemitic culture, including «segregating Jewish students and preventing them from accessing the heart of campus.»
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Donald Trump anunció que se reunirá el próximo viernes con Vladimir Putin en Alaska

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, anunció que su esperada reunión con el mandatario ruso Vladimir Putin se realizará el próximo viernes 15 de agosto en Alaska, un estado en el noroeste estadounidense.
“La tan esperada reunión entre mi persona, como Presidente de los Estados Unidos de América, y el Presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, tendrá lugar el próximo viernes 15 de agosto de 2025 en el Gran Estado de Alaska. Próximamente se ofrecerán más detalles”, publicó el mandatario norteamericano en sus redes sociales.
El asesor presidencial ruso Yuri Ushakov confirmó que Putin y Trump se reunirán en Alaska, según declaraciones a la agencia de noticias Sputnik. “Rusia y Estados Unidos son vecinos cercanos, por lo que es bastante lógico que la reunión se celebre en Alaska”, dijo, y añadió: “De cara al futuro, es natural esperar que la próxima reunión se celebre en territorio ruso. Ya se ha enviado la correspondiente invitación al presidente estadounidense”.
Por otra parte, Trump recalcó este viernes que el acuerdo de paz en Ucrania mediado por EEUU podría contemplar “intercambios de territorios” para “mejorar la situación de ambos países” implicados en el conflicto. “Hablamos de un territorio disputado durante tres años y medio, con la muerte de muchos rusos y ucranianos. (…) Es complicado. Habrá intercambios de territorios para beneficio de ambos”, señaló, y enfatizó que confía en la predisposición de Putin y del presidente ucraniano Volodimir Zelensky para alcanzar una solución negociada.
El jefe de Estado estadounidense agregó que las negociaciones para la cumbre en Alaska se han visto demoradas por requisitos de seguridad, aunque reiteró su intención de buscar un cese el fuego en Ucrania. “Europa quiere paz. Millones de personas han muerto”, aseguró frente a la prensa, tras presidir la firma de un acuerdo de paz entre los líderes de Armenia y Azerbaiyán en la Casa Blanca.
Además, transmitió que “ya se están acercando a un pacto de cese el fuego porque todas las partes quieren poner fin al conflicto”. También destacó el reciente envío de ayuda militar a Ucrania a través de la OTAN y señaló que “Zelensky necesita conseguir todo lo que necesita, porque tendrá que prepararse para ceder algo”.

En Moscú, el presidente Putin consultó este viernes con los líderes de China e India como parte de sus gestiones antes del encuentro con Trump, buscando apoyo internacional. Según el Kremlin, Putin informó al presidente chino, Xi Jinping, sobre los avances de su conversación con el enviado especial estadounidense, Steve Witkoff, quien visitó la capital rusa esta semana para preparar la cumbre. Xi se mostró favorable a una “solución a largo plazo” al conflicto y expresó satisfacción por el diálogo abierto entre Estados Unidos y Rusia sobre Ucrania.
Por su lado, el primer ministro indio, Narendra Modi, declaró tras hablar telefónicamente con Putin: “Tuve una buena y detallada conversación con mi amigo el presidente Putin. Le agradecí que compartiera los últimos acontecimientos sobre Ucrania”. Tanto China como India han promovido iniciativas de paz por su cuenta, aunque por el momento no han logrado avances sustanciales.
Respecto a la posible sede para las futuras conversaciones entre Rusia y Ucrania, Putin mencionó a los Emiratos Árabes Unidos como una opción, aunque no ha sido confirmada por Washington. Además, Trump ha sugerido que podría producirse un encuentro trilateral con Zelensky después de su reunión con Putin, aunque indicó que un cara a cara directo entre los mandatarios de Rusia y Ucrania no constituye un requisito indispensable.
En Ucrania, las hostilidades se extienden tras más de tres años de conflicto iniciado por la invasión rusa en febrero de 2022. Según fuentes oficiales, decenas de miles de personas han muerto y millones han sido desplazadas, principalmente en el este y sur del país. Las negociaciones previas entre Moscú y Kiev no han logrado un acuerdo duradero hasta la fecha.

El gobernador de la región de Donetsk, Vadym Filashkin, anunció este viernes la evacuación de familias con niños en 19 aldeas del este debido al avance de las tropas rusas, con cientos de personas afectadas en localidades situadas a menos de 30 kilómetros del frente.
La próxima cumbre de Alaska se convertirá en la primera reunión presencial entre un presidente estadounidense y uno ruso desde el encuentro entre Joe Biden y Putin en Ginebra en 2021. Distintos líderes internacionales, como el mandatario de Sudáfrica, Cyril Ramaphosa, también han intensificado contactos diplomáticos en la búsqueda de una salida negociada al conflicto.
Hasta el momento, el presidente Zelensky ha reiterado que Ucrania no cederá ningún territorio a Rusia, incluidas las zonas del este bajo ocupación militar desde el inicio de las hostilidades.
(Con información de AFP, EFE y EP)
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