religious convention

Similarly, a religious convention in Phoenix scheduled for April 9 bills itself as offering "supernatural protection" from the coronavirus.

Former Vice President Joe Biden warned Wednesday in a speech to a meeting of the National Baptist Convention — which describes itself as “the nation’s largest African American religious convention,” with 7.5 million members — that Trump has given “oxygen” to forces of hate.

Former Vice President Joe Biden warned Wednesday in a speech to a meeting of the National Baptist Convention - which describes itself as “the nation’s largest African American religious convention,” with 7.5 million members - that Trump has given “oxygen” to forces of hate.

The state-run Global Times newspaper quote another local official as saying cadres should push against religious convention to demonstrate “their commitment to secularisation”.

"The movement was clearly ambitious during its early decades, contesting religious convention by attempting to reframe the religious system from within, recruiting economically and politically influential individuals... But in the past decade it has remained outside of politics in an effort to disassociate itself from any political alliances."