{"id":40491,"date":"2026-04-04T02:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40491"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:05:39","slug":"city-of-houston-deletes-spring-holiday-x-post-after-good-friday-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40491","title":{"rendered":"City of Houston Deletes \u2018Spring Holiday\u2019 X Post After Good Friday Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The City of Houston, led by Democratic Mayor John Whitmire, removed a social media post announcing that city offices would be closed Friday for a \u201cSpring holiday\u201d after drawing condemnation for not identifying the day as Good Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The city\u2019s official X account posted Thursday,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cIMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to the Spring Holiday, City of Houston offices will be closed on Friday, April 3.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christian Americans, including elected officials, candidates, activists, business leaders, and conservative commentators, were quick to notice and denounce the absence of any reference to Good Friday in the City of Houston\u2019s post. Many contrasted the wording with previous City of Houston social media posts celebrating Muslim holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2039853132713214062\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toddstarnes\/status\/2039853132713214062\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2040089269457367289\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepTroyNehls\/status\/2040089269457367289\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2040078256825860577\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BoFrenchTX\/status\/2040078256825860577\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2039885364127502720\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Julie4TX\/status\/2039885364127502720\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2040076052647608777\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinsforTX\/status\/2040076052647608777\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2039900172235260224\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonBonckTX\/status\/2039900172235260224\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2039828716583272858\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MontyBennett\/status\/2039828716583272858\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2040074475425652813\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KennethRWebster\/status\/2040074475425652813\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2039887476328661208\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/M4LHarris\/status\/2039887476328661208\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The original message is no longer visible on the City of Houston\u2019s X page. The city continued posting other updates on Friday, but as of Friday evening had not posted any separate message referring to Good Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The City of Houston has not publicly explained why it deleted the post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good Friday is observed by Christians as the day commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2026\/04\/03\/houston-deletes-post-referring-good-friday-spring-holiday-backlash\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Houston, led by Democratic Mayor John Whitmire, removed a social media post announcing that city offices would be closed Friday for a \u201cSpring&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}