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Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nce sparked by western intervention Amrou Al-Kadhi, an Iraqi living in the United Kingdom, wrote a column this month saying that deadly violence against LGBT people in Iraq had “escalated dramatically” since the Western invasion of the country in 2003. From his commentary in The Independent: Humanitarian reports estimate that between 2004 to 2009, 680 people have been murdered due to gender and sexual non-conformism. According to Amir Ashour, the…

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…ble reports say some were taken away and killed. Therefore, we call on the United States, Britain, and Norway [nations with an historic interest in Sudan] to stop the bombing campaigns that kill civilians. Why can’t they create a no-fly zone over the Nuba Mountains and the entire South Kordofan state to protect civilians from [our] own government’s air strikes? The international community must also intervene to open up full access for the humanita…

International Religious Freedom Battles Heat Up

By Sarah Posner

…tion Act, and served as the first chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), created in 1998 by the International Religious Freedom Act. On the other, though, Saperstein is one of Washington’s most prominent religious progressives, supporting reproductive and LGBT rights, as well as criticizing this summer’s Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby case (which was decided under RFRA, the statute he champion…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nts and scholars” and would run afoul of Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law. International Organizations Last week the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission hosted a conference on collaboration between activists in Africa and their counterparts around the world. Chesterfield Samba of Zimbabwe and Dorothy Aken’ova of Nigeria discussed both the benefits and potential pitfalls of international collaboration. From IGLHRC: Aken’ova said r…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…whispers of neighbors and friends, as both Paolo Apolito has pointed out. International pilgrimages are much easier now, at least for the middle class that can afford plane tickets to Medjugorje and Civitavecchia. Pilgrims learn from major apparition sites exactly how to watch for the Virgin and what to do when someone spots her. And it’s much easier for the news of an apparition to reach reporters, now that visionaries and their witnesses use vi…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…el of governance, asking them to think twice about the consequences of the United States’ decision to legalize same-sex “marriages”. “The people who are into ‘democracy the American way’ and trying to reconcile it with traditional values need to think hard after this decision,” the head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin told Interfax-Religion. He pointed out to the kind of values that one is “tr…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that previous human rights activists’ killers have gone unpunished. Exodus International: Former ‘Ex-Gay’ Leader Marries in Oklahoma John Smid, former director of “ex-gay” group Love in Action, and who spent 11 years on the board of Exodus International, married his same-sex partner in Oklahoma on Sunday. World Bank: Profile of LGBT Leader At dot429.com, R.A.Schuetz profiles Fabrice Houdart, a Senior Country Officer at the World Bank and president…

A Legal Document with Soul: Will the US Ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?

By Sara Friedman

…ication of CRC is evidenced in the four following dogmas: 1. Entering into international treaties leads to becoming part of the international community and renouncing leadership; 2. The CRC may override state and federal law and the US constitution; 3. The groundbreaking inclusion of social, economic, and cultural (as well as civil and political) rights as human rights are not in the US rulebook; and finally 4. US laws already cover most of the Co…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hared lessons we have learned while advocating for natural marriage in the United States and elsewhere.” Andreas Thonhauser, a spokesman for ADF International, said that the group also gave legal expertise to other countries in the region that requested help. Local churches — be it the Orthodox Church in Romania or the Catholic Church in Slovakia or Croatia — were also involved in recent anti-LGBTQ rights campaigns. Efforts to prohibit gay marriag…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…riage reflects the union between Christ and the Church. One woman, one man united in Christ in faithful love. No law or referendum can alter the true nature and meaning of marriage.” “Marriage has always recognised sexual differences. This is because society recognises the importance of the setting in which new human life, new members of society come into existence. “It is of vital importance to society that the definition of marriage is protected…