Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap
Reports from several international LGBT gatherings: The Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa (IDNOWA), founded…
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Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap
Author Michael Muhammad Knight writes at Vice on “Editing Homophobia Out of the ‘Islamic Tradition.’”…
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Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap
Many LGBT advocates protested U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order barring refugees from entering the country as…
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ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap
Organizers of last month’s International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia have published their report…
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LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap
The Global Philanthropy Project has published “The Perfect Storm: The closing space for LGBT civil…
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Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap
New Vatican Confab on ‘Complementarity’ in Marriage Before the dust had settled from the Catholic…
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Islam=Peace: What’s in a Slogan?
How a meeting with Muslim youth leaders led me to realize I had cynically underestimated a slogan’s power.
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Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!
With the power vested in us by ourselves, we have chosen ten candidates in the hopes that one of them will win popular acclaim and restore glory to a throne too long left empty.
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Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism
What the anxious West has failed to recognize in the Arab Spring is that the political transformations of the Middle East are the coming of age of a new Islamism.
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