Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has released a statement from Dublin on the death of human rights activist David Kato saying “His murder deprives his
An editorial in Uganda’s biggest daily newspaper that ought to be unremarkable stands out because it calls for protecting the rights of LGBT people in a nation whose leadership refuses to recognize that gay people are humans beings. An unpublished op-ed by David Kato shows that he was a person with a voice and a story.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is currently in Dublin for the Primates’ meeting, has made the following statement regarding the murder of the gay human rights activist David Kato Kisulle in Uganda:
The highest authority of Sunni Islam, the Islamic University of al-Azhar in Cairo, has frozen all dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church over what it called Pope Benedict’s repeated insults towards Islam.
Reuters reports that many Christians who live in northern Sudan are flocking south in anticipation of independence there, but are also driven by fears that the north could become an Islamic state governed by Shariah law.
UPDATED: Resolution R-2a was passed this afternoon: Blessings of Same-Gender Unions Adopted as amended,
Julie Ingersoll of Religion Dispatches looks at a recent interview in Christianity Today of Roberta Green Ahmanson, wife of Howard. Ingersoll says that most reporters do not understand the importance of the theology behind Ahmanson’s support of religious right causes.
A new poll says that three out of four Americans grade the country’s moral climate at a “C” or below. If that is true, then we are grading on a curve.
The Presiding Bishop wrote to President Obama on January 16th urging him to revive stalled middle east peace process and to not veto an upcoming UN resolution on Israeli settlements in occupied territory.
The Global South Primates are blaming the Archbishop of Canterbury for their boycott of the Primates Meeting next week. They are claiming that the agenda is not transparent enough and that there won’t be enough useful dialogue to make it worthwhile to spend all that money to fly to Dublin.