On his last day as president, Joe Biden was inducted into the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina. This event took place the day before he left office on January 19, 2025. Here are the key details: • Induction Date: January 19, 2025, the day before Biden left office. • Lodge Name: Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina. • Title Granted: “Master Mason” by the Reverend of the Grand Lodge. • Significance: This makes Biden the 16th Freemason president in U.S. history. • Potential Church Repercussions: As a Catholic, Biden’s induction into a Masonic lodge could potentially result in excommunication from the Catholic Church, as Catholics have been banned from joining Masonic organizations since 1738.
On his last day as president, Joe Biden was inducted into the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina. This event took place the day before he left office on January 19, 2025. Here are the key details: • Induction Date: January 19, 2025, the day before Biden left office. • Lodge Name: Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina. • Title Granted: “Master Mason” by the Reverend of the Grand Lodge. • Significance: This makes Biden the 16th Freemason president in U.S. history. • Potential Church Repercussions: As a Catholic, Biden’s induction into a Masonic lodge could potentially result in excommunication from the Catholic Church, as Catholics have been banned from joining Masonic organizations since 1738.
Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. Channels are not fully encrypted, end-to-end. All communications on a Telegram channel can be seen by anyone on the channel and are also visible to Telegram. Telegram may be asked by a government to hand over the communications from a channel. Telegram has a history of standing up to Russian government requests for data, but how comfortable you are relying on that history to predict future behavior is up to you. Because Telegram has this data, it may also be stolen by hackers or leaked by an internal employee. Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images
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