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Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ation because of your sexual orientation. And I say that with confidence.’ Nigeria: Novelist Says Anti-Gay Law Driving People Into Shadows Novelist Judge Dibia says in an interview with Lisa Schlein, that he called his first novel Walking With Shadows, which features a gay man who lives as a married family man, because gay people in Nigeria do not officially exist and are forced to live in the shadows. He says even though bookstores have refused t…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…to me it would be a very easy to make hajj from there. I bought an airline ticket and was in contact with the family of one of my graduate school friends. They would pick me up from the airport and host me during my stay and the days of ritual. Nice plan. So I went to the embassy to get the visa and was denied because (as an American) I needed proof that I was Muslim. How do I prove I have been a practicing Muslim for a decade? I went to the famou…

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…holars to do the field work, most of it in Southern Africa, with Kenya and Nigeria representing the East and the West respectively. While one may squabble about some of the choices—why for instance, Ghana was not chosen to bring more representation to West Africa—no one volume can do everything. This book is a product of a collaborative effort among the authors, Anglican scholar Cyril Imo writing on Northern Nigeria, church historian John Karanja…

Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…it scheduled for May should Western nations impose sanctions on Uganda and Nigeria. Navi Pillay, the UN’s Human Rights chief, met with Nigeria’s justice minister last week and slammed the country’s new anti-gay law, saying it violated the Nigerian constitution as well as the African Charter and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. According to Agence France-Presse: “It (the law) may have negative consequences for public health…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…to the political interaction, all of these groups know they don’t have the numbers alone to bring folks in, they need to interact for like-minded causes. Electing a “Christian” is a like-minded cause, whether you believe in dominionism or not. A politician like Perry knows that he has to get these groups to coalesce together on his side in order to get votes and support. Whether Perry believes what they preach is up for debate, but it is clear tha…

Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

By Peter Montgomery

…eople dying of AIDS like flies.” Among the recipients is Theresa Okafor of Nigeria, a regional director for WCF. Okafor backs Nigeria’s harsh new anti-gay law, which has led to stepped up violence and legal persecution. In a speech to the World Congress of Families annual gathering in Madrid in 2012, Okafor speculated that Western countries advocating for gay rights in Africa were involved in “a conspiracy” to “silence Christians” with the terrori…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the situation for those on the ground…. Although activists in Zimbabwe and Nigeria face similar challenges, both Samba and Aken’ova rejected the notion of a uniform solution to LGBTI persecution on the African continent. The implementation of Sharia law in Nigeria, for example, has created a considerably more hostile environment for LGBTI people, forcing activists like Aken’ova to adapt strategies to confront restrictive tenets of Islamic law as t…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ling Law and Justice (PiS) party in Poland came to power in late 2015 on a ticket of promoting traditional Polish values, family and Catholic traditions. he government has been attacked by the EU and other international institutions for its alleged attacks on democracy in Poland, in particular accusations it has politicized civil service, media and other areas of public life, while also undermining the Constitutional Tribunal. … In an open letter,…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…“the impact of that on Christians far from here, in South Sudan, Pakistan, Nigeria and other places would be absolutely catastrophic. Everything we say here goes round the world.” As the Guardian report noted, Anglican churches in Uganda and Nigeria have backed the brutal new criminal penalties imposed on gay people in those countries. Mormons: Apostle Affirms Commitment to One Man-One Woman Marriage Mormon Apostle Neil Andersen, speaking at a bia…

The ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Worldview of Trump’s Conspiracy Doctor is Part of a Transnational Movement

By André Gagné

…, founder of Mountain of Fire Ministries (MFM) in 1989 and based in Lagos, Nigeria. In the biographical note about DKO on the MFM website, his ministry is said to be “heavily influenced by the work of the late Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola,” founder of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), and that DKO’s father had also been a pastor with the CAC. The CAC was created in 1941 after the expansion of the “Aladura” (meaning, “praying people”) movement…