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First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…rica—the other being the world-famous Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. The declaration from the Diocese of Green Bay comes at a difficult time for US Catholics. Many are frustrated beyond repair with continuing sex abuse scandals. A growing financial crisis in the Church has led to the closing of both schools and parish churches; tough choices for religious leaders grappling to maintain their credibility with parishioners. Bishop Ricke…

Desert Prophet of Salvation Mountain Wants to Share his Life Story

By Lauri Lebo

…r Leonard for the past 20 months. A frequent visitor to the Slabs from New Mexico, he came by Salvation Mountain one day and noticed the toll the harsh life was taking on Leonard. So, he went back to New Mexico, rented out his house, bought a camper and moved to the Colorado Desert where he has lived since, taking care of Leonard, making sure he eats and stays cool. A month ago, just as the temperatures were beginning their climb past the 100-degr…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…rict Superintendent in the Methodist Church. She served in West Texas, New Mexico, and Portland, Oregon, where her ministry always focused on the marginalized. In 1992, she organized the Southern Albuquerque Cooperative Ministry, an ecumenical venture with emphasis on services for immigrant families. Such efforts were rare at that time, but the success of her leadership remains visible in a vibrant organization today. In 2004, Minerva w…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…of a zombie apocalypse. Local TV stations in California, Michigan, and New Mexico also had zombie hackers co-opt their emergency systems. Add to that list states where aid in dying legislation has recently been introduced (New Mexico, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, and Hawaii) and states where it is already legal (Oregon since 1994 and Washington since 2008) and you’re likely to conclude that dead isn’t what it used to be. And you’d be right. D…

Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hich has boasted in recent months about helping anti-equality activists in Mexico and launching a new chapter in Nigeria. Last Tuesday, the group wrote about the assistance it is providing Christian groups who are opposing the advance of marriage equality in Taiwan. BuzzFeed, the polling firm Ipsos, and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law collaborated on a survey of public attitudes toward transgender people in 23 countries. (ILGA rel…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…zed in lobbying against any move towards greater equality for LGBT people. Mexico: Marriage Equality Moving in States Over Continuing Objections. In Aguascalientes, Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) official Efraín González Muro said he is “almost sure” that the state legislature will pass marriage equality legislation, but said that legislators are being pressured by the Catholic Church and the National Front for the Family, reports La Jor…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…are already married will not have this designation taken away from them.” Mexico: Favorable review for marriage equality documentary As marriage equality continues its complicated spread through Mexican courts and state legislatures, No Dresscode Required, a documentary by Cristina Herrera Borquez about the struggle of two Mexican men to get married in the face of obstruction by local officials, was reviewed by Daphne Howland in the Village Voice…

Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…riage equality but gave the legislature two years to implement the ruling. Mexico: Some State and Local Officials Resist Federal Marriage Equality Rulings Ongoing resistance to marriage equality is taking the form of a kind of civil disobedience by some civil officials in Puebla refusing to grant marriages to same-sex couples in defiance of orders from the country’s Supreme Court. The same is reportedly true in the state of Guerrero. Germany: Gay…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d a transgender woman were deported after spending three weeks in custody. Mexico: Puebla legislators resist court ruling on marriage equality At Puebla Online, Gerardo Cruz Castañeda writes that state deputies’ anti-gay prejudice is preventing them from passing marriage equality legislation to comply with federal Supreme Court rulings. Last month Puebla Archbishop Víctor Sánchez Espinosa criticized the court, saying that decisions on family belon…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ors. Faith-based groups have been leading resistance to marriage equality. Mexico: Local officials resist court ruling on marriage equality Marriage equality continues to expand via the complicated interplay between Mexican federal courts and state legislatures; the process is explained and tracked by journalist Rex Wockner. With an amparo, or court order, two women became the first same-sex couple married in southern Veracruz. Elsewhere, staff in…