New Report Breaks Silence on Faith-Based Orgs
“Seeing Is Believing” shines light on practices, lack of transparency, and effectiveness of US funding of faith-based organizations.
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A Comedy Writer Confronts ‘Mind-Shredding Evil’ in Uganda
British comedy writer and celebrity journalist Jane Bussmann had a revelation while interviewing actor Ashton Kutcher at a Hollywood café: She really had to find something more meaningful to do.
So she embarked on a Google quest for the most evil man in the world and found Joseph…
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The Anti-Gay Highway
A new report documents the trend of evangelicals like Rick Warren exporting sexuality issues to Africa, whose clergy, in turn, support the minority antigay view in mainline denominations, weakening them. The author of the report speaks with RD at length about what he found.
Read MoreUganda Isn’t Alone in Persecuting Gays
Rwanda, Nigeria, Iran: Uganda is just the tip of the iceberg.
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AIDS in South Africa: Women, the Church, and Global Indifference
The AIDS epidemic is a justice issue, not a moral one, theologian Beverley Haddad explains—in the face of overwhelming challenges, there is no room for regressive moralizing from religious leaders.
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Religion, AIDS, & Africa, After Obama
What is the role of religion in addressing the challenges facing contemporary African cultures? A new model suggests that religious organizations may be uniquely suited to effect change.
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Sex Work: In Bed with the Religious Right
Is American sexual culture schizophrenic? Yes, and this has everything to do with the sexual politics of the religious right. Sexual opportunity is everywhere, but sexual rights have, at the same time, been concretely eroded.
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RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa
How do Africa’s churches affect its politics? This anthology sets out to answer this question…
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Of Values and Viruses: The Challenges for Obama’s New Global AIDS Coordinator
Dr. Eric Goosby, Obama’s pick to run the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS relief, will face the challenge of faith-based opposition to condom distribution, among other difficulties, when he assumes this important position.
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The Horror Mugabe Doesn’t Want the World to See
Bishop Desmond Tutu calls for the world to take action against the regime of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe and the Nobel Prize-winner has signed the preface to a harrowing new report from Physicians for Human Rights on the man-made situation that may, if ignored, match Rwanda.
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