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Romania’s “Witch Tax”: Magic Meets Bureaucracy

By Joseph Laycock

…o prosecute witches with fraud. He remarked, “If money from witchcraft can buy the kind of houses they have, it means witches must owe the State huge amounts of money. All we want to do is recover money and stop the fraud.” Romania became an EU member in 2007. When public health concerns became an area of “shared competence” with the EU, it became possible for many witches to register as “alternative health care providers.” This greatly vexed Roma…

Jerusalem Countdown: Christian Zionists and the New Israeli Government

By Bill Berkowitz

…ch, a couple of recent appearances on the Fox News Channel provided a book-buying surge, driving it to #1 in the “Leadership” category, and #2 in “Middle East.” In an early March e-mail, Evans reported on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to the Middle East. Clinton “called for urgent action by Arabs, Israelis, and the international community to break the cycle of Mideast violence and to move toward a comprehensive peace in the region,” Ev…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…to mislead voters and downplay Obama’s extreme pro-abortion views.” The ad buy, which will run in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Michigan, and in the Washington D.C. market, “will target Christian radio stations that earlier this year carried the Matthew 25 campaign.” Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council and the FRC Action PAC, said that “Last year, when he addressed Planned Parenthood he declared that his ‘first act’ as p…

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…some of these welcome the patronage of politicians. Others still refuse to buy into the dualism of sacred versus secular, preferring instead to see God as fully invested in humanity’s full experience—these consider democracy an arena in which they can be the salt of the earth and light to the world and the leaders have worked, among other things, to reconcile bitter enemies or to oppose dictatorial tendencies. Generally, evangelical and mainline C…

The Kids Are All Wrong: Texas Tosses The Enlightenment

By Burke Gerstenschlager

…citizens. Because in Texas, that’s about to change big time. And if we all buy their textbooks, it’s going to change for us, too. If anything, this little escapade that started about national textbook sales and has now turned into an epic ideological battle about how the West understands itself has been healthy for all of us. I find it to be a nice cleansing of the palate about what it means to be citizens and how we understand and teach our own i…

Gambian Prez Rails Against Gay ‘Evil Empire’; Irish Priest Comes Out During Mass; Trans Talk on Tunisian TV Sparks Debate; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…inclusion, while shaking the conservative set, has attracted a far larger number of people back to the Church, especially the young.” The Philippines is the bulkhead of the faith in Asia, where 130 million Catholics now account for about 12 percent of the world total. That’s up from 5 percent in 1910, when 65 percent of the faithful were in Europe, according to a Pew Research Center’s survey. Europe now accounts for less than a quarter of world C…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es of origin” with regard to asylum seekers, reports Tunisia Live. Amnesty International argues that the criminalization of homosexuality in all three countries means that German officials should more carefully consider individual asylum applications from LGBT people. Tunisia LGBT-rights groups say Germany’s position with regard to Maghrebi asylum seekers is particularly dangerous for their members. “Putting countries like Tunisia on the list of ‘…

Participant Discredits the Original Ex-Gay Study

By Warren Throckmorton

…dings with the 11 subjects (from page 1555, see below). Bussee was subject number two and Cooper was number one. Both Bussee and Cooper were rated as Kinsey 6 (exclusively homosexual) before change and a 0 (exclusively heterosexual) after change. Since there was no follow-up, this study has been used to support the proposition that gays could change to straight via religious mediation. For instance, not knowing any of this background at the time,…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s call for more action in response to anti-LGBT violence Last week Amnesty International responded to a wave of violence against LGBT people by calling for concrete action to fully implement hate crimes legislation, noting that a 2012 law on violence against women was stymied by “a lack of funding and bias against women among government officials, including judges.” Austria: Proposal would clear convictions under old anti-gay laws The Minister of…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…rning the end of the world.” In addition to Rapture Ready Wallpaper, and a number of ads for books (Coincidences in the Bible and in Biblical Hebrewby Haim Shore), a very scary graphic novel (Armageddon Now: World War III), videos (“Rapture—End Times”), and dating aids (“Meet Christian Singles”—obviously something that should be done sooner than later), RaptureReady.com’s front page features a slew of bad-news articles with headlines that almost m…