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Ugandan Bishops Push Notorious Anti-Gay Bill

By Peter Montgomery

…including death and life imprisonment, and has generated intense scrutiny. International pressure, including opposition from the U.S. State Department, has helped prevent the legislation from actually being voted on in Parliament. The reported support for the bill from the Uganda Joint Christian Council is especially noteworthy since Roman Catholic Bishop of Uganda Cyprian Lwanga previously denounced the bill’s death penalty and imprisonment provi…

Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…nth, in an interview with The Atlantic, Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, made it unequivocally clear that the nation’s largest ex-gay organization no longer considers itself in the business of changing sexual orientation. Chambers acknowledged that most Exodus members are single and remain so, that those who are married are trying to salvage an existing marriage rather than starting new, straight ones, and that homosexual desire s…

Talking With the “Religious Terrorist” that Turkey Wants Trump to Extradite

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ulen’s quarters don’t give the appearance of the control center for a vast international organization. What we did see was a former youth camp on twenty-six wooded acres on a quiet road near the town of Saylorsburg in eastern Pennsylvania. A large farmhouse had been renovated into guest quarters, while another building used for conferences held the room where we met, adjacent to Gulen’s bedroom, his only place of privacy in the compound. The bedro…

Hoax Underscores Urgency for LGBT People in Uganda

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he Rev. Canon Albert Ogle, Integrity USA’s Vice President for National and International Affairs noted, the hoax is a call to LGBT advocates around the world to redouble their efforts to foster full acceptance of LGBT people everywhere in the world – and most especially where they face the prospect of violence and death on a daily basis. ”This story is a wakeup call for all of us to ensure that something like it will never actually happen. The cli…

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…phobia to Uganda, as well as Che Ahn, president of the charismatic Harvest International Ministries. Both men were among Covenant Life’s early leaders. Five years after its founding, in 1982, the church launched what would become its overarching ministry, Sovereign Grace, originally called “People of Destiny International.” The grandiose name reflected the group’s aspirations to greater influence as a ministry, a vision that would only begin to be…

The Folly of Arab-West (Elite-Elite) Dialogue

By H.A. Hellyer

Last week the Arab League hosted a high-level international conference aimed at improving Arab-West relations. It was symbolically important for many reasons, not least because the Arab League actually borders Tahrir Square. Yet meetings like these face two big problems: The first is that we have to properly re-orientate how we define this ‘Arab-West’ relationship—both within the West and within the Arab world. The cultural construct is this: ‘th…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…erein long-established Western democracies are completely powerless before international finance. Who seriously thinks that Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland, or Iceland, or even the United Kingdom and Germany, have any meaningful democratic domestic consensus? Who seriously thinks that the people in those countries have any meaningful options in how their countries respond to the current economic crisis—which affects a whole range of domestic social…

Gingrich, Israel, and the Assassinate Obama Comments

By Shalom Goldman

…sraeli Right which has long sought for Jerusalem to be, in the eyes of the international community, exclusively Israel’s. The Forward‘s Gal Beckerman nails the bigger picture: [the] concern is that because of his influence on Gingrich, Adelson has turned the Republican contest into a competition of extreme rhetoric, in which there is no room for compromise or diplomacy, and the only answer to any international problem is unmitigated toughness. No…

LGBT and Muslim? A New Report Busts Stereotypes

By Peter Montgomery

…, the “Muslim LGBT Inclusion Project,” was just published by Intersections International—a New York-based nonprofit whose mandate, says founding director Rev. Robert Chase, is to bring together people who differ, honor those differences, and find ways to work together for reconciliation, justice, and peace. The report builds on interviews with Muslim community leaders, several scholarly articles, as well as facilitated discussions among more than…

Evangelicals Call Christian Zionist Uncritical “Support” for Israel “Appalling” and “Intolerable”

By Sarah Posner

…most alone in the world community in supporting Israeli policies which our international friends generally find intolerable if not immoral and illegal. But it’s not just the international community that finds the occupation immoral and illegal; Gushee and Stassen accuse their evangelical brethren of the sin of underwriting human rights abuses and ensuing violence: Not to put too fine a point on it, we wish to claim here that the prevailing version…