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Ghana Moves to Arrest Gays and Lesbians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lesbians in Uganda are not the only ones living in fear for their lives in Africa. According to news reports from Ghana, “the Western Region Minister Paul Evans Aidoo has ordered the immediate arrest of all homosexuals in the region.” The move comes after the Christian Council of Ghana released “a strongly worded message against the practice [of homosexuality] and courting Ghanaians not to vote for any politician who believes in the rights of homo…

Ultra Orthodox Murder-Suicide Makes Headlines

By Shalom Goldman

…s. Also living in Israel proper are 500,000 so-called “guest workers” from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Outside of “Israel proper” lie the territories (variously modified with the adjectives “liberated,” “occupied,” or “administered”). In these territories (the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip), Israel has varying degrees of control over the Palestinian population (approximately 3.5 million people) and over the Jewish settler popu…

Harold Camping, Prophet of Apocalypse, Dies at 92

By Daniel Silliman

…t airs in several major metropolitan areas, on the Internet and in Europe, Africa and Asia. It reaches mainland China from a station in Taiwan and is building a station to reach much of Southeast Asia. It also has expanded into television. Its signature show — ‘Open Forum’ — features Camping answering called-in questions, often rambling about obscure Biblical and religious references in his slow, deep voice. He repeatedly refers to Matthew 24, the…

How to Prevent Ethnic Cleansing in Syria

By Haroon Moghul

…tions were gradually cleansed, frequently through blood and fire, while in South Asia, mere talk of new boundaries in the 1940s precipitated horrific violence. That process has begun in the Arab world, or at least threatens to, and we would do well to pay closer attention. There are, I would argue, three regions the Arab world can be loosely divided into. Across the northwest, we have the “Maghreb,” made up of large, overwhelmingly Muslim, sparsel…

The Problem with the Discussion of Race and the Tea Party Movement

By Julie Ingersoll

…hose black groups that are racist” or worse: “Obama should just go back to Africa.” But even more than that, I’m troubled by the Tea Party Movement’s invocation of the intentions of the founders as the “be all and end all” of Constitutional interpretation and their nostalgia for “states’ rights.” Even if you buy revisionist Christian American history which argues that the founders detested slavery and sought to facilitate the end of the institutio…

Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See

By Ben Brazil

…industrializing West has become increasingly “inauthentic,” Latin America, Africa, and (especially) Asia have been deemed “authentic.” Dean MacCannell noticed just this projected sort of authenticity in his 1976 The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. But even before the Beatles went to India, elite Westerners had begun juxtaposing the “spiritual” East to the “materialist” West, a move that (as post-colonial critics have pointed out) proje…

Rick Warren Gives Pre-Inauguration Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church

By Michael A. Elliott

…tory of his ministry, and especially about his outreach to AIDS orphans in Africa. What was remarkable, in fact, was that he managed to water down the social vision of both Rick Warren and Martin Luther King into something bland and universally palatable. He talked a great deal of King’s fight against racism without mentioning King’s protest against Vietnam or his critique of capitalism that would inspire the Poor People’s Campaign. He talked abou…

Sanctioning Patriarch Kirill Would Send a Strong Message — Is the Problem That He Doesn’t Wear Mullahs’ Robes?

By Katherine Kelaidis

…rthodox example). Even clerics who cooperated with the apartheid-regime in South Africa, arguably one of the most sanctioned governments ever, didn’t incur any personal penalties. This discrepancy seems to suggest a part of the problem in the largely-Christian West’s response to the Russian Orthodox Church: Christian churches and clerics are given a much wider berth than Muslim clerics when it comes to supporting dangerous regimes and causes. Ther…

Blood for Oil

By Peter Laarman

…vere exploitation of workers and their families: from the diamond mines of Africa to the copper mines of Chile to the hideous suffering surrounding coal mines just about everywhere. I need hardly mention the appalling and chaotic conditions that still prevail in the despoiled Niger River delta. Lisa Margonelli reminded us in a Sunday New York Times op-ed that we deceive ourselves when we talk about curtailing our own oil extraction for environment…

Homophobic Uganda a “Purpose-Driven Nation”?

By Nick Street

…mic poverty and location at the frontier between Islam and Christianity in Africa have made Uganda—with a population of 30 million in an area about the size of Georgia and South Carolina combined—a focal point for missionary work across the denominational spectrum. The country’s evangelical president-for-life, Yoweri Museveni, has received praise from George W. Bush, at whose encouragement Museveni narrowed the focus of Uganda’s HIV-prevention pol…