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Freemasonry in Spain (Spanish: Masonería) is first recorded in 1728, in an English lodge. As various papal bulls condemned Freemasonry the Spanish Inquisition did their best to close lodges and demonise Freemasons, therefore the success of Freemasonry from year to year depended on the sympathy or antipathy of the ruling regime.
[69] Also, Freemasonry was banned in Egypt in 1964 by the order of President Nasser and in 1965 the Ba'athist government of Syria banned all lodges. [ 70 ] However, a few countries such as Turkey and Morocco have allowed establishment of Grand Lodges [ 71 ] while in countries such as Malaysia [ 72 ] and Lebanon , [ 73 ] there are District Grand ...
Freemasonry was an important catalyst in the founding of the Knights of Columbus and the Knights of Peter Claver in the United States [131] and the Knights of the Southern Cross in Australia, because one of the attractions of Freemasonry was that it provided a number of social services unavailable to non-members (e.g., devout Catholics). [132]
After Francoist Dictatorship, Freemasonry was legal again in Spain by a National High Court's judgement of 19 May 1979. This judgement set aside a decision of the Ministry of Interior (ruled by Rodolfo Martín Villa) pretending to keep Freemasonry underground. The Symbolic Grand Lodge of Spain was established the next year, on 15 May 1980.
The Vatican has confirmed a ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society that the Catholic Church has long viewed with hostility and has an estimated global membership ...
The 1985 Conference of the Methodist Church of Great Britain said that Freemasonry competed with Christian beliefs, [57] discouraged (but did not prohibit) Methodists from becoming Freemasons [58] and asked Methodist Freemasons to reconsider their membership of Freemasonry. [59] The Conference banned the use of Methodist premises for Masonic ...
The history of Freemasonry encompasses the origins, evolution and defining events of the fraternal organisation known as Freemasonry.It covers three phases. Firstly, the emergence of organised lodges of operative masons during the Middle Ages, then the admission of lay members as "accepted" (a term reflecting the ceremonial "acception" process that made non-stone masons members of an operative ...
MADRID (Reuters) -Spain has banned Sam Altman's Worldcoin for up to three months amid perceived privacy risks from the venture which scans irises in exchange for a digital ID and free cryptocurrency.