Nearly three decades after the Beijing Conference on Women — where concerns about gender inequality were expressed — Africa still has a long way to go in bridging that gap, a new Gallup study has found. The report, Gender Power…
Baptist evangelist found dead in Uganda
Who killed Richard Malinga, a Baptist evangelist in Uganda? That’s the question many people, including religious leaders and security officials in the country and elsewhere, are asking about the man whose lifeless body was recently found in Kayete Swamp in…
Ugandan Parliament speaker claims corruption charges are retaliation for passing anti-gay law
Is Anita Among, speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, paying a price for her role in passing the anti-gay bill in her country last year, or is she guilty of corruption? That’s the question Ugandans and people elsewhere ponder about the…
Ugandan Court endorses anti-gay law
Smarting from the disappointment of not having an anti-LGBTQ law passed by the Ugandan government last year reversed by the country’s Constitutional Court, members of the LGBTQ community in Uganda are rallying to further challenge the controversial act. Nicholas Opiyo, a…
World Bank suspends aid to Uganda over anti-gay laws
Uganda’s harsh anti-LGBTQ policies have created financial repercussions, as the World Bank has suspended funding to the East African country. The World Bank said it was halting funding for new projects in the country due to the passage of an…
AWAB decries Uganda’s anti-gay law as ‘another step backward’
Uganda’s strict new anti-gay law is “another step backward for the ever-growing LGBTQ community of Uganda and the whole of Africa,” according to the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists. Same-sex relations already were illegal in Uganda, but the new…
What happens when Tom Ascol finds Ted Cruz to be too liberal and quotes Leviticus 20:13?
When a prominent Southern Baptist pastor quotes Levitical law prescribing the death penalty for participants in gay sex, should that be interpreted as calling for capital punishment for gay people in America today? Apparently not, according to Florida pastor Tom…
Egged on by evangelical influence, Ugandan Parliament passes harsh new anti-gay bill
Eight years after an anti-LGBTQ bill passed by the Ugandan Parliament failed to see the light of day due to a court overruling it, Parliament March 21 passed another anti-gay bill after barely two weeks of consideration. Tagged as the…
In Africa, inflation and a food crisis threaten not just the economy but people’s lives
While inflation troubles the United States and economies around the world, the rising cost of food and essential commodities is having a deadly effect across Africa. The challenge on the African continent is not just about the rising cost of…