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Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sted last Valentine’s Day—as well as Blued, the Beijing LGBT Center, PFLAG China, China Luxury Advisors, Bliss, a Chinese bedding brand, the L.A. LGBT Center and the City of West Hollywood. Ten couples were originally selected but visa issues held back three of them. Putin: God made me perfect Vladimir Putin declared in an interview with an Italian newspaper that he has never made a mistake because God built him to be perfect. The anti-gay politic…

Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…Tibetan Buddhism. Devotees and pilgrims from all over the world, including China, had come there. I saw visitors from the Mainland China offering donations in Chinese currency, during a prayer session led by the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje. The donations came in small notes from the country of their origin. Helpers and translators were accepting and writing down each transaction in great detail, the names of the people, for whom they were pra…

The Fire Next Time: Tibetan Protests Spread

By Megan Sweas

…independence for Tibet and his spiritual leader’s call for autonomy within China. Many young Tibetans break from the Dalai Lama over his effort to compromise with China. Strategically, it’s better to ask for it all, Raha says, but as a Buddhist convert about to make his first 10-day meditation retreat, he also sees independence as “the best way to preserve the true culture.” The extreme stance, however, does not call for extreme actions, Raha says…

Holy Father, You’re Not Helping: The Problem with the Pope’s Plan to Consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

By Katherine Kelaidis

…it’s only been an official part of Catholic teaching since 1854. While the Eastern churches agree with Catholics that Mary was free from personal sin, the fact that the Eastern church has never accepted Augustine’s teaching on Original Sin means that the doctrine is superfluous for Eastern Christian theology. The Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is also one of the most hotly contested theological issues in ecumenical dialogue between East and…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…y LGBTQ faith-based organization in the region. It works primarily in Anglophone countries but has plans to expand further in Africa, with additional focus on Francophone regions. There is no group or organization in the region that addresses the needs of LGBTQ and MSM Muslims. Mambaonline.com published an interview this week with a lesbian couple whose marriage in December generated media coverage that led to both positive and negative responses,…

Protests Force Torch Detour in San Francisco

By Lygia Navarro

…k with a black rubber tube. Protesters ate it up while the nearby crowd of China supporters chanted “Go back to Hollywood!” and “Who’s paying you?” in nearly perfect syncopation with the baton blows. “We don’t believe that an Olympics in 2008 can be anything but a political event,” said William Hibbits, the monk. “Last week I said, ‘I’ll dress up like a Chinese soldier! And you can dress up like a Tibetan!’” enthused Hibbits’ friend, before pullin…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…mportant marker of Eastern Christian identity—particularly as increasingly numbers of Eastern Christians became the simultaneous targets of Western crusaders and Islamic conquerors. In this context, rigid adherence to liturgical customs became a means by which to assert and preserve identity in the face of colonization and oppression. Conversely, adherence to Christian practices abandoned by the Christian West—if not in the Middle Ages then certai…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed Irish Central: “This is not your grandfather’s Ireland any more folks.” China: Propaganda officials tell media to play down Taiwan marriage ruling According to Radio Free Asia, “China’s state propaganda machine has warned the country’s media not to ‘make a big deal’ of” Taiwan’s marriage equality ruling. The government of Hong Kong has appealed a ruling by the city’s high court that the city must provide spousal benefits to civil servants who m…

Christian Inmate Suing Indiana to Recognize Religion

By Daniel Silliman

…ristian inmates to be suing a corrections department and possibly the only Eastern Orthodox inmate to claim his religious rights are being violated. The Eastern Orthodox account for about 0.6 percent of the American population, according to Pew, roughly equivalent to Jehovah’s Witnesses. According to the pan-Orthodox parish directory, there are 47 Orthodox churches in Indiana, divided by history and ethnic heritage into 10 distinct churches, yet t…

Reactions to Biden’s Korean-American Secret Service Agent Expose Christian Nationalism’s Anti-Asian Side

By Lucas Kwong

…ing COVID-19 the ‘China Virus.’” Searching Twitter for the phrase “Godless China” or “Godless Communist China” yields an ever-updating string of unironically bigoted results. Indeed, it was precisely because of such virulent religiosity, which exploits my faith to launder attacks on my ethnicity, that I began writing an open letter on anti-Asian racism and Christian nationalism in early December. The letter has now amassed over 300 signatures from…