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Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…t been contacted by two brothers in their 30s who have went into hiding in Lagos,” he said. “Vigilante groups are hunting them down, asking for huge ransoms.” “Nigeria is now legally sanctioning and its laws are encouraging persecution by both the state and its citizens against LGBT people,” said Mac-Iyalla. This week Canadian officials reportedly canceled a state visit by President Jonathan that had been scheduled for February. Also this week, a…

Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…eneva, even though there are probably more Christians in a neighborhood of Lagos or Nairobi than all of Switzerland. It is in this context that the attention of the Anglican Communion has again turned to Canterbury. The bishop’s chair there will soon be vacant, even as Rowan Williams takes full advantage of the months preceding his December retirement. And while speculation as to his successor runs hot, most observers place their bets on current o…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ndly legal environment,” says Bar. The same month, 40 men were arrested in Lagos for “performing homosexual acts.” MassResistance, an extreme anti-gay organization based in the U.S., announced in August that the leader of its Nigerian chapter has “published a ground-breaking book exploring and dissecting the homosexual movement through African eyes.” Its author Dominic Ido describes it as an “attempt to awaken African consciousness towards resisti…

American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

By Warren Throckmorton

…International, recently encouraged delegates attending a law conference in Lagos, Nigeria to resist the United Nations’ calls to decriminalize homosexuality. Keynoting the Nigerian Bar Association Conference, Slater told delegates that they would lose their religious and parental rights if they supported “fictitious sexual rights.” One such “fictitious right” is the right to engage in same-sex sexual relationships without going to jail. According…

Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…or someone in Hong Kong to need to coordinate her schedule with someone in Lagos. But it was also about authority, and the terms of the change proceeded down some predictable lines of power. Colonial governments imposed standardized time systems in their colonies, often aided by missionaries. Towns and cities conformed to the standards of urban power centers, adopting, say, Berlin time, or London time. It’s not a coincidence that the midpoint of g…

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

By André Gagné

…a (DKO), founder of Mountain of Fire Ministries (MFM) in 1989 and based in Lagos, Nigeria. In the biographical note about DKO on the MFM website, his ministry is said to be “heavily influenced by the work of the late Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola,” founder of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), and that DKO’s father had also been a pastor with the CAC. The CAC was created in 1941 after the expansion of the “Aladura” (meaning, “praying people”) mo…

Where Christianity and Islam Collide

By Maggie Fick

…talism. Griswold hops between the megachurches on the outskirts of teeming Lagos, to the underground headquarters of Jemaah Islamiyah in a wealthy Jakarta suburb. Here, there, and in between, Griswold finds support for an argument that she makes at the outset: Christianity and Islam are both “in the midst of decades-long revolutions—reawakenings—based on effervescent forms of worship.” Perhaps the phenomenon of seeking “direct experience of God” i…

What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains

By Vlad Chituc

…y of Madness describes the author wandering through the crowded streets of Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, bumping from person to person to see if anyone showed signs that his penis had been stolen. Bures had traveled to Nigeria to research “genital retraction syndrome,” or koro. He had heard stories of men swearing that their penises had shrunk into their bodies. A few years before his arrival, 12 alleged penis thieves had been burned alive b…

Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…ay, could we seriously think that he’d attend a Southern Baptist church in Houston?” The answer, to Croslow, is a resounding “No.” Croslow’s belief that the Catholic Church most accurately reflects the intentions of the early church fathers is echoed throughout the movement as other evangelicals seek a church whose roots run deeper than the Reformation. Further, due to the number of non-denominational churches that have proliferated since the Jesu…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…h buildings, starting right around the same time. Talk about luxury on the cheap; it’s hard to deny a feeling of similarity. (The tower is to the Burj as a certain toupee is to hair: might the Trump Tower inadvertently mimic an Islamic motif?) The regal twin palm trees in the foreground are the world’s tallest, at some 3,500 feet each. Recently a falling coconut crushed an entire apartment complex, punching a massive hole that has filled up with…