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An Historic Meeting: African and African Diaspora Women Convene in Ghana for First-Ever Religion Conference

By Rosetta E. Ross

…/exchange activities. Absence of representatives from Southern and Eastern Africa, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia-Oceania, and Antarctica challenged the meeting’s full identity as “African” and “African Diasporan.” As conference organizers, Rose Mary Amenga-Etego, Evelyn Parker, and I began and ended the meeting lamenting constraints that prevented wider representation and anticipating broader participation of women on the continent and in…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…truth,” he said….“I want to be part of a generation of people in Kenya and Africa who change [Africa] to be accountable to itself,” he said. Africa: Former President of Mozambique Says LGBT Equality Essential to Development Joaquim Chissano, former president of Mozambique and co-chair of the High-Level Task Force for the International Conference on Population and Development, published an open letter to African leaders last week that put LGBT equa…

Conservative Bishops Get “Different Translation” Dialing Back Language on LGBT Acceptance

By Patricia Miller

…enied giving the interview (Pentin is standing by his reporting)—and added South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, who has been an outspoken critic of the mid-term report, to the committee charged with drafting the final document this weekend. The question now is will the committee add so many qualifications and exceptions to the more welcoming language obviously favored by the Francis camp that it becomes meaningless, returning the church to the d…

The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion

By Jacob J. Erickson

…stice. Zimbabwe is home to what are often referred to as the “Big Five” in Africa. The African elephant, the Cape buffalo, the African leopard, the rhinoceros, and, of course, the African lion compose the celebrity group of animals for the hunter. They each made this list not because of size or rarity, but because of the danger supposedly involved in hunting them on foot. Each of these can be quite ferocious to a human being endangering them. The…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…holic, and a recently formed national federation of Christian LGBT groups. South Africa: Profile of gay Imam with Hindu partner At the India Times, Shweta Sengar profiles Muhsin Hendricks, a gay Imam with a Hindu partner. Hendricks grew up in Cape Town in a very small Muslim community, which was very orthodox and conservative. His grandfather was a cleric at a local mosque, which was just a stone’s throw away from the house. “Homosexuality is a si…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and PASSOP, supporting LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers who have fled to South Africa. United Nations: Right claims victory on LGBTs, abortion in sustainable development agreement After a marathon negotiating session that ran through last weekend, a new agreement on sustainable development was announced at the United Nations on Sunday evening, and the conservative group C-Fam (formerly known as the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute) dec…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…parades while flying the rainbow flag. Tim Farron abstained on that one … South Africa: Paramedic faces punishment for blaming fires on gay marriage Afrikaaner Bossie Boshoff, a paramedic, is facing disciplinary action by his employer after publicly blaming recent wildfires on the Dutch Reformed Church’s decision to allow 12 same-sex couples to marry at a festival last year. “It dared god,” he said in a Facebook post. “They mustn’t cry now about…

South Dakota Bill Could Legalize Killing Abortion Doctors

By Lauri Lebo

…e made in the committee hearing on the bill last week. “If you look at the code, these codes are dealing with illegal acts. Now, abortion is a legal act. So this has got nothing to do with abortion.” Here is the bill in its entirety: FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to provide for the protection of certain unborn children. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: Section 1. Th…

How (Not) to React to Anti-Mormon Sentiment in the South

By Joanna Brooks

…few months ago: winning in the South. Romney is now up by double-digits in South Carolina, the first primary south of the Mason-Dixon line. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard LDS people say that a Mormon candidate like Romney could “never win in the South” owing to historically deep-seated anti-Mormon prejudice. (For a refresher course on the roots of that prejudice, please see this interview with religion historian Patrick Mason here at R…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…and it also has an incredible amount of poverty. It is not accidental that South Africa has the highest number of persons infected with HIV—the consequence of apartheid has been poverty, lack of education, unemployment, hunger, and disease. In India, HIV spreads among the most impoverished and poorly educated. This theme of poverty takes me to a few more questions. You co-authored a book entitled Ending Hunger Now with Senators McGovern and Dole….