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Including Bono on Glamour’s “Women of the Year” List is Two Steps Backwards

By Sunnivie Brydum

…y for his work to bring life-saving HIV and AIDS medication to sub-Saharan Africa, and for his newest philanthropic endeavor underneath the ONE brand, Poverty Is Sexist. The magazine acknowledges that “men aren’t exactly hurting for awards in this world,” and that Glamour’s Women of the Year Advisory Board has previously vetoed any inclusion of men on the annual list. “But these days, women want men—no, women need men—in our tribe,” the feature’s…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…rotests was one in Nairobi, Kenya, outside Uganda’s High Commission there. Africa: US Urges End to Anti-Gay Discrimination U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield held an online press conference this week in which she reportedly urged African nations to repeal laws that violate human rights. “We strongly support human rights for all people, and we particularly are opposed to legislation that actually targets t…

There is Another Reason Trump Refuses to Concede the Election

By Chad Bauman

…vice in which she spoke in tongues, called on God to discharge angels from Africa to aid the president’s reelection, and rap-prophesied that she could hear “victory, victory, victory, victory in the quarters of heaven.” What was she doing? Exercising positive confession on behalf of the president and the large percentage of conservative Christians who support him. (When the addition of a dancing cat propelled an altered version of the video to the…

Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music‘s Mother Abbess?

By Shannen Dee Williams

…eology of white supremacy and racist manipulations of the Bible to justify African enslavement and racial segregation. Although the overwhelming majority of the world’s black Catholic sisters served (and continue to serve) in the Americas and Africa, the presence of black nuns in European convents is not a recent phenomenon. In fact, one of the first documented black nuns in Europe was Louise Marie-Therese, the famed Black Nun of Moret, who took t…

Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…ortrayal of the EU as a cultural bully is echoed by anti-LGBT advocates in Africa, including WCF’s Africa representative Theresa Okafor, who supports harsh anti-gay laws in African countries as necessary to protect the family against the “Trojan horse” of the sexual revolution. At last year’s WCF gathering in Salt Lake City, Okafor denounced “the West” for pressuring African nations to legalize abortion and “yield to sexual orientation and gender…

Senate Obstructionist Endangering Africans

By Sarah Posner

…king havoc in neighboring regions. Two weeks ago, the LRA sacked a town in south west Central African Republic and kidnapped 40 people (including, presumably, many children).” Coburn is big on touting his Christianity, and was part of the C Street group (a.k.a. “church“) that tried to help fellow Senator John Ensign out of a jam when he was caught in an affair with his aide’s wife — by paying her off. He’s worried in the past that lesbianism was…

6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…hrough trade, settlement, and missionary work (for example, to Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia). Christianity, too, spread by conquest—most notably, under the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne, and in the Spanish conquest of the Americas. I cited the Cengage mismatch in my TFN review, and to their credit, the publisher revised the passage to say that Muslims “spread their religion by conquest, through trade, and through missionary work,”11 alth…

The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda

By Sarah Posner

…es. As the Rev. Kapya Kaoma, author of a report on anti-LGBT evangelism in Africa, told RD’s Kathryn Joyce last year: When he goes to Uganda, he’s not known as Scott Lively, but as an American evangelical… The Africans don’t always have the resources to follow their statements so they say: this man of God says this is going on in the world. Or Scott Lively goes to the Uganda Anti-gay Conference, and the media says that an American evangelical says…

Methodists Vote to Keep Homosexuality “Incompatible”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tional growth of the denomination, especially into parts of the world like Africa, where they remain very conservative on issues of human sexuality — especially homosexuality, where governements like Uganda’s are trying to make it a capital offense just to be gay. Baden said the Reconciling Ministries Network is working hard to open dialogues with church leaders in countries like Africa to educate them on the realities of being gay or lesbian. “We…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…Prequels Tattooine’s a real city, in Tunisia, which is a real country, in Africa, which is a real continent trying to become the country it is regularly confused for. Now you know why Jedis and Sith look that way—their robes are a reflection of North African culture. The lightsaber, unfortunately, was not our idea. “Hospitals” by Emory Banker 12. Hospitals The first hospital was founded in Cairo, and Muslim hospitals once even included wards for…