Religion Dispatches
…lian church talked warmly about annual youth group service trips to Haiti, Mexico, New Orleans, and other “areas in need.” He insisted that these trips had been incredibly important in his personal and spiritual development. But, he said, they were basically extracurricular activities. You went on these trips, and did a presentation at church one week, then that was it. It was just a thing they did for the youth to develop Christian values of char…
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…sitors carried out their grim business in Manila, Cartagena, Santa Fe, and Mexico City. A third, overlapping phase, the Roman Inquisition, began in the 16th century. Under the direct authority of the Holy See, its biggest target was Protestantism. But it also went after Jews, witches, and homosexuals (all the interesting people, apparently). And it went after ideas, inventing the Index of Forbidden Books, roasting Giordano Bruno for espousing mult…
Read More…several South and Central American countries before arriving on foot from Mexico at the Texas border. The two had no visas, but immediately applied for political asylum at the border and were taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “They fled India because they were afraid of violence. They imagined the U.S. to be a welcoming country. Unfortunately, they were detained as soon as they arrived,” Clement Lee, a staff attorney with Immigratio…
Read More…ctor. He cites the recent advent of gay marriage in Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico City. And in the last two years, Ecuadorean authorities closed down 15 “clinics” that supposedly cured homosexuality, their patients often admitted by their families against their will. Violence has also spurred some positive political response, says the story. In 2012 Chile passed an anti-discrimination law that had been stalled in Congress for seven years, “after a…
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…en he joined the Mormon church and moved to North America, died in Sonora, Mexico in 1899, having moved there so he could practice polygamy unmolested by the US government. I always knew that polygamy was part of my legacy as a Latter-day Saint, even if I never knew exactly what to think of it. Currently the most notorious aspect of that legacy is the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, otherwise known as the FLDS, the sect…
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…______ Death Couture: Not for Halloween Only STEPHEN ANDES De-exoticizing Mexico’s patron saint of death Halloween, Evangelicals, and the Macabre JOHN W. MOREHEAD Reflections on our monstrous creations The Fear is Real: A New View of Halloween Hell Houses LUCIA HULSETHER A 90-minute walk through the South Georgia woods offers violence, fear, and an Obama-like Antichrist Jesus Goes to the Dark Carnival: Hell House Gets a Makeover W. SCOTT POOLE A…
Read More…o see more of Emily, her sister, recently returned from a modeling trip in Mexico. This may have been hinted at in earlier episodes, but here it’s made explicit: Emily and Olivia actually used to party together. This means that Emily is also acquainted with Frankie, the friend from Olivia’s past who has recently shown up again. He’s just a friend, but nevertheless, Olivia’s parents Mark and Cheryl want to know who’s in her life. So they invite Fra…
Read More…. Other measures should include funds for enhanced security along the U.S.-Mexico border. Modernizing the visa system to track those who overstay visas and fully implementing an E-Verify system to verify workers’ identities will further enhance security. As politicians seek to solve the thorny problem of U.S. immigration policy, they should sit down with the faith community and perhaps open their Bibles. Well, if politicians are looking to scriptu…
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…go reported that events have been held in Florida, North Carolina, and New Mexico, where the group was addressed by Rodriguez, Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, Lt. Governor John Sanchez, and others. Upcoming events will be held in Colorado, Ohio, Nevada, Maine, Maryland, and Washington, with a wind-up event in Virginia. Manaigo says the campaign’s goal is “to pull together multi-ethnic, multi-denominational groups to swing the difference in some…
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…ificant presence in the swing states of Nevada, Florida, Colorado, and New Mexico, where they may play a decisive role this year.” But Molly Rohal, a communications associate with the Pew Hispanic Center, said, “We do not have large enough samples in our national surveys to analyze Latino evangelicals at the state level. The sample sizes in the state-level exit polls from 2008 are also a bit too small to analyze Latino evangelicals separately.” In…
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