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Call it ‘Christian Globalism’: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part III

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…active in Asia, Australia, Canada, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, South Africa, South America, Ukraine and the US. CIGN envisions the church as “God’s instrument to establish and extend God’s Kingdom until the literal coming of Christ to reign over all the earth.” Towards this end, CIGN believes that “God has entrusted the church the solemn Biblical responsibility of being the conscience of society, culture and government” and therefore i…

Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s Thahir Mohammed Sayyed, India’s entrant for the Mr. Gay World pageant in South Africa, pulled out of the competition and went into hiding, reports TIME’s Rishi Iyengar, after threats to himself and his family in India. As we have reported, homosexuality was recriminalized in 2013 when the country’s high court overturned an earlier ruling that abolished the colonial-era sodomy law. TIME also notes that India recently voted for Russia’s unsuccessf…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…larger struggle within hierarchy James Martin, a Jesuit priest whose book promoting bridge-building between the church and gay Catholics has exposed him to vehement criticism from anti-LGBT Catholics, described his experience at the hands of “the Catholic alt-right” in a Washington Post op ed. For just one example, see Claire Chretien’s attack for Life Site News on what she calls the “extreme” things Martin has said about Catholics and gay marria…

Persecution of Ugandan Bishop Continues In United States

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Episcopalians and other U.S. religionists are often indifferent to international religious persecution, even when churches around the world are under attack. For them, seemingly sexual freedom is more important than religious freedom.” No, the freedom for all people to be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, or sexual orientation is what should be most important to everyone. That’s just the human thing to…

Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

By Peter Montgomery

…major step forward in the fight for LGBTI safety, respect, and justice in Africa. Many conservative lawmakers and faith leaders in Africa—urged on by their U.S.-based conservative benefactors—will undoubtedly argue that this resolution is part of some imagined international “gay agenda” to create new, special rights for LGBTI people. But the ACHPR has simply affirmed that the application of existing human rights standards should also apply to tho…

Addressing Homophobic Rhetoric, and Not Just the Anti-Gay Initiatives in Africa

By Sarah Posner

…arren’s point man for his P.E.A.C.E. Plan in Rwanda, which is supposed to “promote reconciliation” and “equip leaders.” The proposed criminalization laws are a manifestation of this homophobia. Even without criminalization laws, LGBT people suffer discrimination and violence, including the verbal violence of religious leaders that Warren continues to promote. In a way, you can understand Ssempa’s bewilderment: why is he cut off, but not Akinola or…

To the Editor: It Took a Village to Change Rick Warren’s Mind

By Abby Scher

…aders here and abroad, and Victor Mukasa, a SMUG member living in exile in South Africa, was blogging about it and speaking out through his position with the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). Box Turtle Bulletin stayed on that story for months (and is still on the story), through every permutation of the antigay bill, alerting LGBT communities about what was happening and creating a handy resource once the mainstream…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…philanthropy. It’s complex motivations like these that lead many to believe that they’re just one more example of Western organizations using African problems as a prop to promote their own interests….

In Just 10 Years ‘The Book of Mormon’ Musical Has Gone From America’s Darling to America’s Latest Problem — The Inverse of the Mormon Story

By Jake Johnson

…parts of the hit musical they felt furthered harmful racial stereotypes of Africa and Africans. This is no small ask. Anyone familiar with The Book of Mormon is likely familiar with its capacity for rudeness. The cartoonish world of the show’s creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone paints white Mormonism and Black Africa with brushes so broad they blend both the ludicrous and the actual. Broadway audiences have sometimes had a hard time telling these…

Make no Mistake, if There’s a War Between Russia and Ukraine, it Will be a Religious War

By Katherine Kelaidis

…rge. With the exception of some significant Greek communities in Egypt and South Africa (who are decidedly not in the market for a new Russian bishop), the relatively few African convert communities on the continent are neither financially affluent nor politically powerful—yet. Modern Russia also has designs on Africa, where it seeks to compete with China and the Western powers for influence on a continent of natural resources and growing markets….