Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Saturday, February 20, 2016

Francis DeBernardo on Discrepancy Between Pope's Political Intervention in U.S. and His Total Silence About Anti-Gay Laws in Africa

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Francis DeBernardo at Bondings 2.0 on the . . . curious . . . discrepancy between Pope Francis's choice to wade into politics in...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Anglican Communion Sanctions Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop of ECUSA Responds: Commitment to Be an Inclusive Church Based on Outstretched Arms of Jesus on the Cross

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As Chris Morley has reported to us in several comments, at its Primates 2016 meeting in Canterbury, the Anglican Communion chose yest...
Monday, January 4, 2016

NY Times Claim That Anti-Gay Laws in Africa Are Blowback for U.S. Intervention: Critical Reflections

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I have to admit that I raised my eyebrows a few weeks ago when the New York Times  published Norimitsu Onishi's article citing vario...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

Paul Vallely and Patricia Miller on the Pope's Failure in Africa: "How Gays Are Treated Is Fundamental to the Future of the Universal Church"

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I am not by any means the only person giving testimony about how Pope Francis's silence regarding the threat to LGBT lives in Afr...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Bob Shine on Pope Francis's Silence About LGBT People in Africa, and How This Silence Colors His Message of Good News

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Bob Shine of New Ways Ministry on Pope Francis's silence about LGBT people in Africa, and how this silence colors his message of...

On World AIDS Day, What Message of Good News Do Catholic Leaders Have for People Affected by HIV — After Pope Francis's Trip to Africa?

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Yesterday was World AIDS Day. What was the official, unambiguous statement of good news offered by the leaders of the Catholic church...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "In Our Christian Heritage We Received from the Missionaries, There Is Nothing of That Inclusive Language"

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David Gibson writing for Religion News Service today: "In our Christian heritage we received from the missionaries, there is ...
Sunday, August 9, 2015

Swords. And Dying by Them.

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What follows is a series of excerpts from things I read/watched this morning, which all seem to me to have a common theme, one about taki...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Jacob J. Erickson on Killing of Cecil the Lion As Part of "Larger Theological History of Environmental, Gendered, and Colonial Injustice"

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In several comments yesterday, I recommended Jacob J. Erickson's recent essay at Religion Dispatches entitled " The Martyrdo...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Leah Mickens on Kenyan Catholic Bishops' Response to Polio Vaccination Campaign: Problem Is Not Just Kenyan Bishops

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Yesterday, Leah Mickens published a statement about the response of the Catholic bishops of Kenya to the polio vaccination campaign ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Kenyan Catholic Bishops Oppose Polio Vaccination for Children

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One minute, the Catholic bishops of Kenya are up in arms about the fact that the U.S. president dares to defend the human rights of ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Kapya Kaoma on How Vatican Hypocrisy Endangers LGBTQ People

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Yesterday, I wrote  that I wonder what Pope Francis will say at the World Meeting of Families this September, given that the Catholic...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Pope Francis on "Ideological Colonization," Same-Sex Marriage, and Contraception: Genealogy of a Disreputable Idea

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In the Philippines, Pope Francis warned against the "ideological colonization" of developing nations by developed ones inten...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

"God Loves Uganda": Some Critical Notes

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Steve and I had a chance to watch Roger Ross Williams's documentary "God Loves Uganda" last night. Our local PBS stati...
Monday, May 19, 2014

"God Loves Uganda" Airs Tonight on PBS Stations in U.S.

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A note to all of you that Roger Ross Williams's powerful documentary "God Loves Uganda," which tracks the role of the A...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

Yes, I Did Remove a Comment Here about "Ethnocentric Racists" Promoting "Sodomy" in Western Nations — Here's Why

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A quick note to let you know about this situation, in case it explodes in some way in threads here: those who have followed postings...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Frederick Nzwili in The Tablet: "Ugandan Catholic Church Leaders Are Backing the Controversial Anti-Homosexuality Legislation"

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Frederick Nzwili in The Tablet  on the response of the Catholic leaders of Uganda to the legislation just signed into law in that co...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

From Nigeria to Uganda to Russia to Kansas: The Common Thread of Christian Complicity

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So here's what's going on in Nigeria right now: 
Friday, February 14, 2014

Division Over Gay Rights in U.S. Apparent Also in Global Catholic Church: Two Churches, Two Sharply Different Memories of Jesus

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As the brief notes I posted prior to this about developments on the gay-rights front across the U.S. in just the past week suggest, t...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

In United Methodist Church, "Ecclesiastical Disobedience Is on the Rise" Over Issue of Gay Marriage

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For the New Yorker , Casey N. Cep reports that the United Methodist Church is deeply divided over the issue of full inclusion of LGB...