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Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Murdered, US Evangelicals Must Take Responsibility

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o Uganda by American conservatives.” “Kato’s murder is a heavy blow to the international human rights community,” said Rev. Kapya Kaoma, the director of PRA’s Project on Religion and Sexuality. “Those U.S conservatives who have lit the brushfire of homophobia in Africa have to bear some responsibility for this tragic death and for the conflagration that now threatens to consume all gay Ugandans.” Those U.S. evangelicals include Scott Lively, the f…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…Billy Graham-founded “magazine of evangelical conviction,” is the focus on international Christianity. Number five on the CT list: Christians flee Iraq and Gaza: About 13,000 Christians—or one in two—left Mosul in October. In Gaza, churches where hundreds worshiped until recently are attended by less than a dozen. Historic Christian communities are becoming history. 4.) TOP TEN ONION RELIGION STORIES: “Jewish Elders Lift Ham Ban.” For instance. 5….

Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…as given remarkable access to leaders and missionaries affiliated with the International House of Prayer (IHOP) movement based in Kansas City, and he makes the most of it. Dominionist Lou Engle describes Africa as a “firepot of spiritual renewal and revival,” and be believes Uganda has a special prophetic destiny. Engle has tried to distance himself somewhat from the infamous “kill the gays” bill that is pending in Uganda’s legislature, but here h…

Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations

By Ben Lorber

…casters (NRB) in Nashville. At this year’s convention of the NRB—a leading international network of evangelical media outlets with a combined audience in the hundreds of millions—an Israeli ambulance was parked on the convention floor; attendees could watch gruesome footage of the October 7 attacks on virtual headsets; Israeli government officials and hostage families were in ample attendance; and a resolution was passed to use ‘Judea and Samaria’…

Iftar: Breaking Fast

By Amina Wadud

…special category of Islamic studies academics who are grounded both in the international or global nature of Islam and the history of identity politics in America. All of the madness hits us double. (I think Tariq knows what I’m talking about too, right!?) We are not supposed to be both black and fluent in another language (or two). We are not supposed to think abstractly, live spiritually, and still play in the street. There is a cost not to clai…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…become—according to the conservative Christian group Pharmacists for Life International—at least the seventh pharmacy in the country that refuses to sell contraceptives of any kind. “I am grateful to be able to practice where my conscience will never be violated and my faith does not have to be checked at the door each morning,” said Robert Semler, manager of the Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy. According to the Associated Press, “States across the co…

Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” Bill On Track for Passage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r Parliament to turn down the bill, Uganda must hear more reality from the international community. As the bill draws ever closer to become law, now is the time for renewed international outrage and pressure. Will religious leaders in the U.S. speak out? Will U.S. political leaders speak out or threaten aid to Uganda? Will the evangelicals who fostered support for this bill and animosity for gays and lesbians do anything to stop its passage? All O…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…o mothers, without asking parents’ permission. “It’s dangerous and wrong.” United Kingdom: Archbishop of Canterbury tells church leaders to stick to party line or change subject on marriage At the Telegraph, John Bingham and Tracey Kandohla report that the Archbishop of Canterbury has “instructed Church of England officials and clerics to brush off questions about a priest who defied a ban on gay marriage rather than openly engage in further discu…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…LGBT rights activist Clare Byarugaba participated in a panel at an Amnesty International USA national conference in Chicago. Other panelists included All Out co-foounder Andre Banks and Chicago transgender educator Trian Alexander. According to a report in the Windy City Times, Byarugabe said, “I don’t feel safe in my own country. Our leaders have sanctioned homophobia and intolerance of the LGBT community. [Our] leaders are calling for prosecutio…

Irony of the Iranian Women’s Burqa Ban

By Shabana Mir

…e loss of their careers as this was an Olympic-qualifying match. No longer internationally competitive, the team will not be funded by the state and will die an unfortunate death—in a field characterized by racial and cultural diversity. Or is international soccer merely a field for Western cultural assimilation, a sphere that rejects cultural diversity? Muslim women’s head-covers again prove to be the ultimate political and cultural test of plura…