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American Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Have a Bigger Problem

By Amy Fallas

…to 1957 due to “disease.” In fact, advocacy organizations such as Survival International and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs formed during the 1960s in response to this drastic depopulation and widespread violence against native groups in the Amazon. These organizations, along with FUNAI (founded in 1967), continue to advocate against over-extraction of natural resources and contact with indigenous peoples that contributes to t…

Sex Work: In Bed with the Religious Right

By Dagmar Herzog

…new distortion of Christianity and its deleterious impact on national and international health policy. I wanted to make sense of how the religious right had succeeded in redirecting the national terms of conversation about sex: spouting ugly homophobia, reshaming women’s sexuality in particular, increasingly going after contraception and not just abortion, insisting that sex before marriage would have horrible consequences (even though 95 percent…

Equality Opponents Try to Reverse UN Progress; Anti-Gay Pentecostal Pastor Elected Mayor of Rio; Indonesian University Official Tells LGBT Students To ‘Normalize’ Or Be Punished; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…abic. The publications ae also available in Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. United Nations: Anti-Gay countries threaten new expert on SOGI related violence & discrimination LGBT equality advocates at the United Nations won a major victory this summer when the Human Rights Council voted to create an independent expert position to monitor violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. But conservative religious opponents of gay right…

UPDATE: An Abrupt End to Quebec Separatist Plan to Ban “Ostentatious Signs” of Religion

By Jeremy Stolow

…m, she defended her government’s initiative as conforming to “a well known international standard.” No doubt, one of the most important precedents being invoked here was that of France, which in 2003 tasked the Stasi Commission to help ‘defend secularism’ within the French public school system through the codification of acceptable legal limits for the wearing of religious attire. In this context, the Quebec initiative offered a variation of wha…

RDPulpit: A Test of Moral Leadership for President Obama at G-20

By Mark S. Hanson

…life-saving aid, expanding debt relief for poor nations and reforming the international-financial institutions. The world’s rich countries have made numerous commitments to increase aid to developing nations, but translating those commitments into real money has proven more elusive. President Obama should urge other G-20 leaders to fulfill their previous commitments. It would be tragic if the world fails to meet such commitments, thereby damaging…

Ping-Pong Politics After Underwear Bomber

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…k was an adventure, to put it mildly. In Athens, everyone traveling to the United States was patted down and all carry-on items were unpacked and closely examined, without exception; travelers were not permitted to purchase liquids of any kind, even in the duty-free shops. These developments may soon become standard operating procedure. Part of the story that has played out in the press has been a story of globalization, of the difficulty in artic…

LGBT in Africa: Persecution and Persistence

By Peter Montgomery

…om his neighborhood. These threats extend well beyond Cameroon, as Amnesty International documents in a new publication. Making Love a Crime: Criminalization of same-sex conduct in sub-Saharan Africa reports on rising harassment and violence directed against LGBT people. The report includes a section on the role that religion plays in fostering homophobia and justifying if not inciting violence. It reads in part: In strongly religious communities,…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…rty Law Center as a hate group) are affiliated with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, when Robert Jeffress is the poisonous voice sanctifying the American embassy’s relocation in Israel, when the Vice President of the United States understands Christianity as a “get out of jail free” card used to freely exercise open bigotry, it can seem pretty conclusive that power has prevailed over justice. But consider some other words of…

Think Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools Are a No-Brainer? Think Again

By Candy Gunther Brown

…hool curricula. “Secular” yoga and mindfulness may be religiously coercive United Press International reported last week on a developing, nationwide legal challenge to school mindfulness programs. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), headed by Jay Sekulow (a personal attorney for President Trump), has collected 82,000 signatures on a petition arguing that school mindfulness unconstitutionally coerces children to participate in meditatio…

When Religion is a Refuge for Scoundrels: ‘Ryan Budget’ Edition

By Daniel C. Maguire

…It doesn’t. It calls for a more active citizenship, not voter suppression. Internationally it calls for “a new model of a more cohesive, polyarchic international society that respects every people’s identity within the multifaceted riches of a single humanity.” The goal is a solidarity that would end poverty and obsessive reliance on military violence for security. The Vatican document supports fair taxation, greed-controlling regulation and bailo…