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Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…he law and gushed that “the Russians might be the Christian saviors to the world.” The World Congress of Families is a global collection of culture warriors that oppose legal abortion, legal recognition of LGBT rights, and comprehensive sex education. The WCF has a long relationship with Russian politicians, oligarchs, religious leaders, and “pro-family” politicians, what one reporter has called “a Bible Belt-to-Kremlin collaboration around its an…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…order to feel more connected to the faith. An estimated 85 percent of the world’s Muslims live outside of the Arab world. And so I was more intrigued than surprised to find a thriving population of Muslim converts while reporting in Panama. Especially since the Panama Canal was finished in 1914, the small Central American country has been a conduit for international travel and trade — the history shows in its demographic diversity. Panama’s Musli…

Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan?

By Frederick Clarkson

…no tangible international pressures is a recipe for ongoing death and destruction. The time has arrived for the international community to create a heavy cost for the kinds of crimes depicted in this report… What happens to the bodies of the victims of mass killings that come to our attention is not something many of us think much about. But as gruesome as it may sound, it follows that where there are mass killings, there will be mass graves. But…

Debate Over Mother Earth’s ‘Rights’ Stirs Fears of Pagan Socialism

By Bron Taylor

…rth,” produced under the auspices of the United Nations by its Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Or, if pressed for time, peruse the “Summary of a Declaration on the rights of Mother Earth,” language below proposed by Evo Morales on the occasion of the first International Day for Mother Earth on April 22, 2009. Most people who care about their planet and its inhabitants will discover that this indigenous and socialist leader from Bolivia makes…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…ession and economic chaos that has defined Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe’s brutal rule (and that has continued since the formation of a “unity government” in 2008) the African Centre for Law and Justice is injecting itself into the political process of drafting a new Constitution that will supposedly pave the way for new elections. The African Centre for Law and Justice is aiming to do in Zimbabwe precisely what the religious right seeks to accompl…

Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded

By Frances Kissling

…ld and for complex psychological reasons looked the other way. If the only ones who will do anything about it are people like Dawkins, Hitchens, Robertson, and those who survived, then more power to them. *The Daily Telegraph is indeed not a Rupert Murdoch property as this article originally claimed. It is owned by the identical twin Barclay brothers, though the sentiment remains true that the conservative daily is probably not the best source for…

Oppose Afghanistan But Not a Pacifist? Tough.

By Gabriella Lettini

…on, economic security, and/or a chance to serve their country. Military recruiting stations are not found in wealthy neighborhoods like Beverly Hills. But economics are not the whole story. Some sign up, as many did in World War II, because they want to fight a war they support. Lt. Ehren Watada, a college graduate, enlisted after 9/11 because he wanted to defend his country. Instead, he became the first commissioned officer to refuse deployment t…

The ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Worldview of Trump’s Conspiracy Doctor is Part of a Transnational Movement

By André Gagné

…e superstitious. Now, for Immanuel, there’s no division between the spirit world and the visible world; same thing for Olukoya and many Pentecostals in African indigenous churches (AIC). Allen Anderson’s important ethnographical work on the “spirit-filled world” of sub-Saharan AICs, clearly shows their continuous-discontinuous relationship with African traditional beliefs and practices. For Anderson, Pentecostalism’s flexibility is what accounts f…

Trump’s ‘Sh*thole Countries’ is Just a Cruder Term for What’s Been Said in American Churches for Generations

By Kathryn Gin Lum

…the world and clump vastly different people and places together under the rubrics of the “Third World” and “developing countries.” The history of the “heathen world”—which I write about more in my forthcoming book, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History—helps to explain how Americans can see such different regions of the world as capable of being grouped together under the same heading, while seeing their own nation as categorically diffe…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…on center are so bad that human rights advocates have alleged they violate international law. Amnesty International described it as “resembling a combination of a prison and a military camp.” Human Rights Watch compared it to Guantanamo Bay. The center even included a shower block that guards had allegedly nicknamed the “rape dungeon,” according to an account from someone who worked in the camp until early 2014. There’s an added fear for queer asy…