A counter-demonstrator attempts to disrupt a Black Mass ritual as Satanic Grotto leader Michael Stewart, top, conducts the ceremony at the Kansas State Capitol on Friday, March 28, 2025 ...

A leader of a Satanist group and three others were arrested Friday after a fight broke out inside the Kansas Statehouse after the leader allegedly tried to hold a Black Mass in the rotunda.

Hundreds of Christians upset with an organization’s plan to conduct a satanic black mass at the Kansas Capitol delivered ... on the south side of the Capitol that state public officials shouldn ...

About 30 members of the Kansas City-area Satanic Grotto, led by its president, Michael Stewart, rallied outside the Statehouse for the separation of church and state. The group also protested what ...

A group called the Satanic Grotto is planning to have an event at the Kansas State Capitol on March 28 that involves the potential desecration of a consecrated host. The event has drawn criticism ...

As the situation unfolded, Governor Laura Kelly had previously prohibited indoor protests at the Capitol ... of the Kansas Legislature condemned the planned Black Mass event, with the state's ...

(WIBW) - The leader of a Satanic group that sponsored a Black Mass was arrested along ... officers -- including from the Capitol Police and the Kansas Highway Patrol -- were on hand to provide ...

The organizer of a “black mass” that took place outside the Kansas state Capitol on Friday amid heavy Catholic protest was arrested shortly afterward in the Capitol building after punching a ...