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Jewishness Per Square Inch, Medieval Edition

By Sara Lipton

…first intifada, when West Bank schools were closed, so in addition to the international students (children of clergy, diplomats, and United Nations employees), there were many Palestinian students. It was a fascinating microcosm of Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations. These young people faced unthinkable challenges, preparing for college or careers and learning to be adults in one of the most contested cities in the world. I felt for them, and love…

Secularist Activists Are Being Murdered in Bangladesh: An Ongoing Crisis Causes Many to Flee

By Michael De Dora

…ral major advocacy organizations, including but not limited to CFI and PEN International and its affiliates, soon began collaborating—with each other, and with various governments—to assist these individuals. In the summer of 2015, CFI launched the Freethought Emergency Fund, an effort to supplement several other secretive funds already in place to assist individuals at risk. In concert, advocacy groups and governments have had some measure of suc…

The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…explains the unthinking references in our popular media to terms like “the international community”—whereby a certain understanding of the West is rendered conclusive and global. But history is not so determined. What then would happen then if, while such commentators insist on the obligation of Islam’s conformity to the Western way, altered global conditions drained the matter of its urgency? What if a convergence of new sources of investment, ri…

Conservative Media Firm Pushes Claim That Gaza Withdrawal Caused BP Disaster

By Sarah Posner

…sical force, when necessary.” Here’s McTernan addressing Tim LaHaye’s 2009 International Prophecy Conference, preaching on Obadiah 1:15 (“For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.”) The nations that curse Israel, said McTernan, are going to be cursed. “The policy of the United States is to divide the land of Israel,” said McTernan, “the policy o…

Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…als have traveled to the country to defend anti-gay politics there. In the International Business Times, activist Peter Tatchell writes about the efforts of Mista Majah P, a “ground-breaking pro-gay Jamaican reggae singer” and his “two-part stinging video rebuke to the homophobia and murder music commonplace throughout Jamaican reggae and dancehall scene.” Majah P’s support for the LGBT community isn’t a one-off, flash-in-the-pan. He is now workin…

Reason for Cautious Optimism in the Mauna Kea Telescope Standoff

By Jean Rosenfeld

…Hawaii Island did not support the emergency decree or the arrests; and the international consortium agreed to a delay. Overarching cultural values, aloha and ohana, united all Hawaiians. The protesters have now allowed workers to pass through their blockade of the main road up the mountain to service the thirteen telescopes whose operation was interrupted for four weeks. For now, the outcome remains unknown. But what the Mauna Kea conflict reveals…

Religion, AIDS, & Africa, After Obama

By John Blevins

…errelated challenges overwhelm the formalized boundaries of public health, international development, educational theory, microeconomics, religious studies, and social sciences erected in the academy. Just how are these challenges interrelated? The village of Namatande in southern Zambia provides an excellent case study. The people of Namatande were moved from their land in late May of this year. This land, occupied long beyond the farthest reache…

How Do Evangelical Missionaries in Brazil Justify Risking Indigenous Lives During a Pandemic?

By Chrissy Stroop

…ples contravenes standing FUNAI policy. It’s also certainly a violation of international law, and it arguably falls afoul of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution itself. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that Dias will move against his former organization. And as for Bolsonaro, he once casually remarked, with truly stunning bigotry, “It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry wasn’t as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated their Indians.” He may wel…

Protesting the Pope’s (Not Yet Released) Environmental Encyclical? Check Your Doctrine

By Kevin M. Lowe

…labour, of technology and communications, of society and politics, of the international community and the relations among cultures and peoples.” If salvation permeates society, then all of us in society must do our part in making it a reality. At the very least, it shouldn’t be controversial anymore for the Catholic hierarchy to talk about protecting the earth. In 2001, for instance, the American Catholic bishops stated in no uncertain terms that…

Pence Meets With One of Putin’s Top Clerics: Strange Bedfellows at BGEA’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

…etropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk—who was staying at the Trump International Hotel—not only participated in BGEA’s summit yesterday, but also, as first reported by Time, met privately with the vice president. Curiously enough, a key talking point from their meeting was that America and Russia should work together to fight international terrorism, a hallmark of the Trump campaign’s election season foreign policy rhetoric. Metropolitan H…