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Despite Religious Violence, Egyptian Mosques Calling for Muslim-Christian Unity

…stians and to stand firm against extremists from all quarters. This is why Egyptians and non-Egyptians alike are launching in the coming days a new initiative called ‘TahrirSquared.Net’, that aims to increase common civil society actions in Egypt and the region – wherever the Tahrir Square effect of joining hands against disunity and injustice has been multiplied. It was multiplied in the ‘Today, I am a Muslim too’ rally that took place in New Yor…

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New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

…ituals and sanctities and prophets” under articles 98, 160, and 161 of the Egyptian Penal Code. According to Egypt News Daily, the prosecution first sought to charge him in connection with disseminating Innocence of Muslims but when this accusation was proven false, they revised their strategy to target the content of Saber’s video blog. Though sentenced to three years and released on bail he was subsequently locked up due to a clerical error befo…

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For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

…ciety.” From a blog post on the report: The overall situation facing LGBTQ Egyptians today is grim as social, cultural, political and religious attitudes towards them are uniformly hostile. Successive governments and the media have hounded LGBTQ people since the early 2000’s during the regime of longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak. While there was a brief lull in persecution between 2011 and 2013 during the Arab Spring and its immediate aftermath, the…

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The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

…n he sets out again on a Cretan vessel called Mars, and sets his sights on Egypt. In Egypt, the land of ancient wisdom, Jesus is reunited with Elihu and Salome, the two who had instructed his mother. He regales them with stories of his travels and his casual experiments with the wisdom traditions of the world; they are delighted to witness Jesus’ development (and also, one suspects, to see the superiority of their own teachings confirmed in him)….

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Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

…y) or the worship of the occult or the devil should not be broadcast.” The Free to Air Radio Program Code says “information, themes or subplots on lifestyles such as homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexualism, transsexualism, transvestism, paedophilia and incest should be treated with utmost caution. Their treatment should not in any way promote, justify or glamorize such lifestyles. Explicit dialogue or information concerning the above topics should…

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Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

…ons ordered to halt their activities, is a renowned human rights advocate. Egypt: Report on violence and criminalization released Solidary with Egypt LGBT released on its Facebook page data on violence and criminalization cases against LGBTQ people in Egypt from the end of 2013 until this month, November 2016. Jamaica: Vogue profiles “Gully Queens” Earlier this month, Vogue published Julia Felsenthal’s profile of “Gully Queens,” transgender women…

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The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

…e of social and community values in pictures.” For the next 38 years, that code shaped Hollywood’s output. The Production Code insisted that movies were primarily “to be regarded as entertainment” that would “improve the race.” As such, movies should avoid explicit images that would be upsetting or play to “the lower and base element.” Those images included graphic violence, “excessive passion,” “white-slavery,” “scenes of actual child birth,” and…

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To One Early 20th Century Rabbi Skeptical of Zionism, Passover Isn’t Simply A Celebration Of Freedom — It’s Also A Warning

…oth a celebration of liberation and a warning against hegemony; a story of freedom and a story of unfreedom? This year the incongruities are much more acute. Jews worldwide will sit at a Seder and tell this story while children starve in Gaza, while mothers become childless, while people become homeless, while the stench of death fills the spring air. They will sit and tell this story still traumatized by the ruthless murder of 1,200 in Israel (in…

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Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

…regime.” And that has led to more frequent and public arrests even though Egypt “does not explicitly criminalize same-sex activity.” Last month a doctor was sentenced to a year in jail after someone reported him to “morality police.” More from Plummer: A special section of Egyptian law enforcement monitors so-called “moral crimes” in the country. Typically targeting homosexual men and transgender people, this police unit increasingly monitors soc…

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Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

…ay, in addition to struggling with an addiction to pornography. This short promo video offers an overview of their stories. By promoting these voices as representative of the entire experience within the LGBT community, even though they do not currently identify as such, the Adventist church elevates stories that portray all LGBT people as damaged, sex addicts, drug and alcohol abusers, unfaithful in relationships, and utterly lost if they do not…

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