内容摘要：, there are limits to what you can do. A full-size artificial tree might take up half a room. You might have limited shelving for trinkets. How can you let your holiday flag fly when you don’t have much space to do it?

, there are limits to what you can do. A full-size artificial tree might take up half a room. You might have limited shelving for trinkets. How can you let your holiday flag fly when you don’t have much space to do it?

Utah’s law does not explicitly mention LGBTQ+ pride flags, but the bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Trevor Lee, repeatedly stated he aimed to ban them.Council members in Salt Lake City unanimously approved new designs Tuesday evening, adding the city’s emblem — a sego lily — atop the traditional rainbow LGBTQ+ pride flag and the blue, pink and white transgender flag. They also adopted a red and blue flag for

, a federal holiday celebrated on June 19 that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S.The newly adopted city flags are displayed at the Salt Lake City and County building showing support for LGBTQ+ in defiance of their state’s Republican controlled Legislature, Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Melissa Majchrzak)The newly adopted city flags are displayed at the Salt Lake City and County building showing support for LGBTQ+ in defiance of their state’s Republican controlled Legislature, Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Melissa Majchrzak)

Utah’s Republican House Speaker Mike Schultz called that a “clear waste of time and taxpayer resources.”“This law is about keeping government spaces neutral and welcoming to all,” Schultz said. “Salt Lake City should focus on real issues, not political theatrics.”

Other Idaho communities are also grappling with the restriction.

City buildings in Bonners Ferry, roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the Canadian border, have long flown Canada’s flag in a sign of cross-border friendship, removing it only in April after Idaho’s governor approved the flag restriction.foreign plunder in Democratic Republic of Congo.

The late pope “was very unambiguous in telling world powers to stop exploiting Africans,” said Father Michael Nsikak Umoh, spokesperson for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria.African ministers who clashed with Francis’ stances on same-sex couples remembered him this week as someone who shared a commitment to justice, rather than someone with whom they disagreed. A priest in Cameroon told Catholic media that Francis was a “post-colonial pope.” In Mozambique, another recalled his ministry in the aftermath of natural disasters.

“I’m not sure that he would want to be painted liberal or conservative. What he wanted to do was to walk a line between church teaching and the experience of people,” said Father Hugh Patrick O’Connor of the South African Council of Churches.That line, however, often frayed at the edges.