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Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…James Macharia for Reuters, Aden Duale, majority leader of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s ruling Jubilee coalition, said homosexuality is “as serious as terrorism” but said Kenyan anti-gay laws are already tough enough. RD contributor Jay Michaelson writes in The Daily Beast that some western activist strategies may be causing more harm than good. Reflecting on the anti-gay wave moving across Africa as LGBT people are made scapegoats for colonialism,…

Liberation Theology is Alive and Well

By Mary E. Hunt

…st prior to the World Social Forum (Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2005; Nairobi, Kenya in 2007) so that progressive religious people can contribute to the global conversation. This year more than 600 theologians, religious activists, and colleagues from all over the world met to discuss “Water, Earth, Theology for Another Possible World.” While we did not solve the major problems of ecocide, we did bring the wisdom of our respective traditions and the w…

No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ical mind—have been applied in recent months to another tribal man, Luo of Kenya, who occupies the Oval Office at the moment. As an Indian militant I am discouraged, but not surprised, that the mainstream media has so far failed to recognize the stomp-down amazing fact that we not only have the first African American president, but the first tribal president in American history. Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars through genealogists…

Rick Warren and Homophobia in Africa

By Sarah Posner

…hibishop of Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi, the Archibishop of Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya..etc all hold similar biblical positions on homosexuality. Our view about sex and marriage is purpose driven in glorifying God. Warren’s spokesperson told me the Warrens are still in contact with Orombi, who also supports the anti-gay law (but, according to Ssempa, not the death penalty provisions) but she didn’t know “the extent of the relationship.” According to Kao…

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

By Susan Henking

…and elsewhere are really good people. When you are helping AIDS orphans in Kenya or assisting women and children living with HIV in India, you discover the biblical truth that indeed it is more “blessed to give than to receive.” If I am spending time with a group of Asian commercial sex workers engaged in “survival sex,” or a group of caregiving grandmothers in Africa who are struggling to care for seven or eight children, I feel like my life is b…

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

By Chelsea Garbell

…cle, anthropologist Bettina Shell-Duncan relayed an experience in Northern Kenya where she was discussing FGC with women from the Rendille ethnic group. “These women were my very good friends, and they were covering up their faces to not show how repulsed they were by the idea of somebody being uncircumcised and delivering a baby. They were, you know, revolted.” The power of this practice is invisible, but it voices the animating narrative in the…

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

…Otidi Amuke on the plight of Ugandan LGBTI refugees and asylum-seekers in Kenya and their struggles with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. A snippet from one of the stories he tells: Then, in tears, Christopher tells me a part of his story which he says he hasn’t used in his asylum seeking application because it may not be politically correct or sexy enough to have him granted refugee status. This is that his mother was a Muslim…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…the American Prospect, Gershom Gorenberg blasts the authors because they: promote conspiracy theories; they demonize proponents of arms control, ecumenicalism, abortion rights and everyone else disliked by the Christian right; and they justify assassination as a political tool. Their anti-Jewishness is exceeded by their anti-Catholicism. Most basically, they reject the very idea of open, democratic debate. In the world of Left Behind, there exist…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…n posed in a Christian video called ‘Transformations.’” Lampman continued: Kenyan pastor Thomas Muthee is convinced that it can be. In 1988, he and his wife, Margaret, were ‘called by God to Kiambu,’ a notorious, violence-ridden suburb of Nairobi and a ‘ministry graveyard’ for churches for years. They began six months of fervent prayer and research. Muthee’s story was held up as a case study in the 1999 pseudo-documentary Transformations the first…

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…’ and sisters’ keepers, wherever they may be. Loving our neighbor requires promoting peace and justice in a world marred by genocidal violence.” …and the Evangelicals Brad Phillips, who heads the Virginia-based Persecution Project, now lives in Kenya, and simultaneously serves as the Sudan country director for Voice of the Martyrs, an evangelical agency that since 1967 has focused on helping Christians in restricted countries, emphasizing communis…