Religion Dispatches
Cameron is among those made-in-America anti-LGBT activists who are exporting the US culture wars, their cause clearly losing at home, to countries where their prejudices are widely accepted.
Read MoreFrom India to China to Africa, events this month leave no doubt that the struggle for LGBT rights has gone global.
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Much of the Pussy Riot trial has focused on the shifting role of the Church from the Soviet era, but what’s less well known is the Church’s efforts to mute dissenters outside of Russia.
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In short: for “hooliganism.”
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In a relatively unprecedented move, Greek police arrested the Rector of the thousand-year-old Vathipedi Monastery, Father Ephraim, on Christmas Eve. He had just returned to the Monastery, which is located on the most sacred ground in all of Orthodox Christendom, which we have now discovered to be the only semi-autonomous region of Mount Athos.
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In the new Russia, where Putin attends Easter services in the capital’s main cathedral, it seems the era of religious repression is over—except if you are a Protestant.
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