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Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

…earlier interreligious impulses they’d explored during Vietnam to build an international movement that was less explicitly Catholic in its goals and orientations. But while those protests multiplied in number, and continue still, they were drowned out by the hosannas of Ronald Reagan’s America™. If burning children are the price paid for our stock portfolios or geopolitical advantage, well, just keep smiling, America. The whole world is now the la…

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Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

…earlier interreligious impulses they’d explored during Vietnam to build an international movement that was less explicitly Catholic in its goals and orientations. But while those protests multiplied in number, and continue still, they were drowned out by the hosannas of Ronald Reagan’s America™. If burning children are the price paid for our stock portfolios or geopolitical advantage, well, just keep smiling, America. The whole world is now the la…

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Ban on Female Genital Cutting in Somaliland is Progress, But Success Relies on Working with Religious Leaders

…trenched cultural practice reinforced by economic, political, and social structures across the Middle East and North Africa, effecting 200 million women worldwide. The earliest known reference to FGC was in the 5th century BCE writing of Herodotus, and FGC was also practiced in 19th century America and Europe as a cure for insanity, masturbation, and female libido. Despite the lack of scriptural support for FGC in either Christianity or Islam, in…

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Shocked by Aung San Suu Kyi’s Insensitivity to Ethnic Cleansing? Don’t Be.

…as a responsible member of the community of nations, Myanmar does not fear international scrutiny, and we are committed to a sustainable solution that would lead to peace, stability and development for all communities within that state…. Since the 5th of September, there have been no armed clashes, and there have been no clearance operations. Nevertheless, we are concerned to hear that numbers of Muslims are fleeing across the border to Bangladesh…

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Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

…ucation in reading and relating to unscripted footage—then we can analyze Trump’s live-action moments in the international spotlight not merely for evidence of his exploitation of reality TV techniques, but also for that very “realness” that the genre promises as its product. “Reality television” existed first as tragedy, then as farce. Techniques developed in documentary work, most notably by Claude Lanzmann in his monumental film Shoah, filtered…

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First They Came for the Brotherhood . . . Egyptian Gov Seeks to Criminalize NGOs

…order or morals.” Under the proposed legislation, the operation of foreign international organizations in Egypt and the cooperation of domestic organizations with intergovernmental bodies such as the United Nations would be severely restricted. The NGO coalition statement points out that these provisions “will be used against any rights organization that seeks to acquire consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council, or with any orga…

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Israel’s Chief Rabbis Say No to Christian Zionist Event

…ed by the Christian Zionist organization International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, finding that it “hinders Israel’s true redemption.” The event, a prayer vigil marking the end of ICEJ’s annual five-day commemoration of the Feast of the Tabernacles, or Sukkot, is scheduled to take place October 15 at the southern wall of the Temple Mount. Other portions of the ICEJ’s program will take place at the new Jerusalem Pais sports arena, and activities i…

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10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

…tian, and modern ideas about the nature of God, the nature of the Self, and the nature of the human body. 10. Yoga “UN-Bound” In his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2014, Narendra Modi called for June 21 to serve as International Yoga Day. Nearly two hundred countries, including the United States, Canada, and China, expressed their support for the proposition, and, on December 11, 2014, the General Assembly app…

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Reason for Cautious Optimism in the Mauna Kea Telescope Standoff

…ers (kapuna) at the site were arrested, the government stood down, and the international consortium of scientists voted to delay construction for two years. This extraordinary outcome is most likely due to the group’s commitment to non-violence; collaboration with the Lakota (Wounded Knee) in developing an organized plan for peaceful protest; and the government’s commitment to take the time to address the specific grievances of the protectors over…

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Fear of U.S. Marriage Equality Exported to Africa

…ill continue to find such propaganda attractive. Pastor Rick Warren, Scott Lively, the World Congress of Families, Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice, Lou Engle, Sharon Slater’s Family Watch, Catholic Human Life International, Alliance Defending Freedom, and many others from the U.S. have spent years working both domestically and globally to influence governments and cultural attitudes against LGBTQ rights and reproductive freedom…

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