Tag: Africa

The primate wants to see the end of UN influence in the country.

The Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS) has issued the Archbishop of Canterbury’s statement on South Kordofan, Sudan:

Nolbert Kunonga, an excommunicated Anglican bishop and staunch Mugabe ally, has escalated a drive to control thousands of Anglican churches, schools and properties across Zimbabwe and southern Africa.

Another area of serious concern for Amnesty International is discrimination against people based on their perceived or actual sexual orientation. In previous years, including 2010, certain sections of the Ugandan media fuelled homophobia by printing the names and photos of people they thought or perceived to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender along with messages inciting violence against them.

From Twitter: wthrockmorton (@wthrockmorton) 5/13/11 10:16 AM http://t.co/Qemyz6l It is official: Uganda’s Parliament has adjourned with no action on AHB. Check link for updates #uganda

“Ugandan lawmakers and government leaders need to know that the world is watching, and that passage of such a bill will have political, diplomatic, and financial repercussions.”

The Ugandan parliament’s Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee has regrettably recommended passage of the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, including retaining the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality,” Human Rights Watch says. The committee’s report recommends amendments deleting some provisions but adding criminal penalties for “conduct[ing] a marriage ceremony between persons of the same sex.”

In contradiction to our earlier post, the editors of the Episcopal Cafe have now learned that it seems the Uganda anti-gay bill IS ON the agenda for the Parliament session for Friday.

From MSNBC Uganda’s parliament appears to have dropped plans to debate a controversial anti-gay bill after global condemnation.

Vatican officials playing Sargeant Schulz to Mugabe’s Colonel Klink, claiming they knew nothing about it.