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The big story this week is the ideological warfare and spin-control struggles that broke into the open after the public reading on Monday of a working document called a relatio that was intended to…
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Political Research Associates
Despite subsequent backtracking, the Catholic world is abuzz with news that the Synod of Bishops could be taking steps toward a dramatic overhaul in the church’s long-standing doctrine on LGBTQ people, as well as its view on divorced members.
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Religion Dispatches
[ Image above from HBO’s “Hunted,” a new documentary on LGBT persecution in Russia.] LGBT News in the U.S. was dominated this week by the Supreme Court’s decision, announced on Monday, not to hear…
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Political Research Associates
Conversion therapy, also known as ex-gay or reparative therapy, is the biggest obstacle to LGBTQ liberation in Africa.
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Religion Dispatches
Catholic Church: LGBT Catholics, Conservative Christians Jockey as Family Synod Approaches The Ways of Love: International Conference for a Pastoral Care with Homosexual and Transsexual People, took…
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Religion Dispatches
In the U.S., two major religious right gatherings are taking place this weekend. The Values Voter Summit will draw thousands of conservative religious activists to Washington, D.C. to get fired up for…
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Political Research Associates
Anti-Neocolonial Posturing and the People Who Suffer
The recent passage of yet another anti-homosexuality bill in Africa—this time in the small West African country of the Gambia—is being condemned by LGBTQ and human rights advocates around the world.
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Religion Dispatches
Americans Abroad The Human Rights Campaign has launched a social media campaign targeting American religious activists who promote anti-gay idea and legislation around the world. The campaign is…
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Political Research Associates
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni is visiting Texas this weekend to meet with members of the local business community who are interested in Uganda. Local activists, however, have no intention of letting his history of human rights violations go unnoticed.
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Religion Dispatches
World Congress of Families and the Cancellation that Wasn’t We have reported on plans by the World Congress of Families to hold one of its annual summits in Moscow this month – and the suspension of…
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