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African Cardinal: It’s ‘better to die of hunger’ than accept homosexuality

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Cardinal Polycarp Pengo of Tanzania has refused to welcome international aid programs that are linked with the promotion of homosexuality, insisting that “it is better to die of hunger than to receive aid and be compelled to do things that are contrary to God’s desire.” The German bishops' news website  Katholisch.de  and the  Catholic Information Service for Africa  have picked up on a November 30  blog entry  of the Eastern African Bishops' Conferences' Association  AMECA , according to which Cardinal Polycarp Pengo has asked the government of Tanzania not to accept aid from western states which give their aid on condition of their acceptance of homosexuality in his country. The November 30 AMECA blog entry states: “The Cardinal said that there are some threats from developed countries alleging that ‘they will stop support us if we are against homosexuality. It is better to die of hunger than to receive aid and be compelled to do things that are contrary to God’s

Prominent Ugandan LGBT activist renounces ‘sin’ of homosexuality

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Val Kalende, a prominent activist for pro-homosexual causes in Uganda, has renounced her former lifestyle, which she now considers a sin. Kalende is a self-described “preacher’s kid” and journalist who left her career at the Ugandan newspaper Daily Monitor in 2007 to focus on LGBT activism, according to a 2015 Daily Xtra profile , going on to work with organizations such as Freedom and Roam Uganda, Sexual Minorities Uganda, and the Dignity Initiative. She left the country for Canada as a refugee in 2015, following the 2014 passage of legislation to criminalize homosexual behavior. “Val Kalende is here to stay,” declared the headline of the profile, which notes that she identified as “genderqueer” and preferred to be referenced with the pronoun “they.” On Tuesday, however, Edge reported that Kalende is a changed woman who is even getting married, announcing the news live on Uganda’s Salt TV . “I joined lesbianism right after Makerere University. I’m born of Christian parents. All of t

‘You’re going to get yourself into trouble’ for rejecting LGBT agenda: CNN host to Kenyan President

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An incredulous and outraged Christiane Amanpour warned Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday that “you’re going to get yourself into trouble,” following his strong repudiation of the LGBT political agenda in a CNN interview with the journalist. After Kenyatta made it clear to Amanpour that Kenyan society rejects homosexual behavior and has no interest in establishing “rights” for the practice of sodomy, Amanpour took off her glasses, and, shaking her head, began to scold Kenyatta. “You’re going to get yourself into trouble, because what you’ve categorically just stated is that this is not an issue for us, for the Kenyan people, and you don’t think that the idea of their privacy, their equality, their rights, is important!” Amanpour told Kenyatta. “This is a global issue right now.” Amanpour told Kenyatta that Kenya’s law prohibiting sodomy is a “holdover” from “colonial Victorian” law, and claimed that homosexuals “just want to have equal rights the same privacy an

In West Africa, Trudeau soft peddles his gvmt’s strident LGBT advocacy

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began a two-day visit to the impoverished West African nation of Liberia this week by treading delicately around his government’s frank encouragement of homosexual and transgender status in Canada and internationally. Global Affairs Canada ’s website offers more than 130 links to projects around the world from Kashish to Manila and Dominica with which it is promoting homosexuality, but Trudeau shied from touting the issue in the heart of a region that is strongly opposed to that agenda. Yet he is signalling that he will advocate “ LGBT rights” in an address Saturday morning in Madagascar when speaking to La Francophonie , a consortium of the world’s nations with close ties to French language and culture. Trudeau came to Liberia to talk about the $11.5 million his government was spreading across West Africa over the next five years to advance the economic and social status of women. He encouraged the development of agriculture and c

Anglican Church rejects 'prayers of blessing' for same-sex unions

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Rainbow flag. Symbol of gay sin JOHANNESBURG - The Anglican Church of Southern Africa has voted against the blessing of same-sex civil unions in South Africa . The vote was taken by the church's top legislative body, the Provincial Synod .  Same-sex marriages are allowed only under South African civil law. The initial motion before the Synod also proposed that bishops could provide for clergy who identify as LGBTI and are in legal same-sex civil unions, to be licensed to minister in parishes.  But the proposers withdrew this section before debate began. The church includes Anglicans in Angola, Lesotho , Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Swaziland and on the island of Saint Helena .

Watoto Children's Choir bannded - because their church speaks the truth on homosexuality

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MP Stuart Robert has called a powerful church leader one of the 'great influences' on his life and has allegedly used taxpayers money to visit the church. But the SMH has attempted to smear the MP, Watoto Church, their pastors and elders and choir as being bigots, haters and homophobic. What SMH doesn't accept is God's view on the sin of homosexuality, it's repercussions and its ultimate destiny. Mr Robert called Watoto Church leader Gary Skinner a huge influence in his life - and in his maiden parliamentary speech said the church was an axis for his moral compass. Watoto is a popular Church in Uganda followed by more than 24,000 people across 11 churches and helps children orphaned by war and AIDS. They also have an internationally popular children's choir that travels the globe, that visited Australia last week. A spokesman for Mr Robert said he was a former director of the Australian branch of Watato on an 'unpaid and voluntary basis' and

Australia: Response to Kristina Keneally on homosexual marriage plebiscite and Churches

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 Kristina Keneally. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) When it comes to the same-sex marriage plebiscite the Christian churches are making a mistake of biblical proportions. Before the 2 July election many Christian churches urged their voters to support a plebiscite by voting for the Coalition .  There is no way of knowing if this statement is true. Many Christian voters may have chosen to vote for independents and not the Coalition because Turnbull was promoting homosexual marriage as compared to Abbott who was againt it. There is no evidence for this comment. But it is true many, abandoned Turnbull. Sydney Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher didn’t tell his parishioners how to vote, but he did write that “we could all benefit from the kind of national conversation a plebiscite should occasion”. Fisher and I don’t agree on how marriage should be defined, but there was a time I largely agreed with him on that sentiment. But I’ve changed my mind. Keneally is welcome to redefi

African Anglican archbishop vows to never let the West impose a ‘godless secular culture’

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The Anglican Communion is headed for another worldwide standoff over homosexuality. Nigerian Archbishop Josian Idowu-Fearon, the secretary general of the global Anglican Communion, has drawn a line in the sand, vowing that he and African faithful will never accept same-sex "marriage" as legitimate or biblical. The archbishop has rebuffed Western ridicule characterizing the African Anglicans as behind the times, flatly   stating   that African churches are progressive precisely because they refuse to kowtow to liberal Western immorality but instead live according to "the will of God in the kingdom of God, which is the real future for humanity that measures all human progress." Idowu-Fearon complained that the poorer Anglican churches are being "swept aside by a campaign to change the church’s teaching on marriage and so-called rights of equality." In an address to the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa, he announced, "We will not crumb

African Pastors say no to homosexual marriage

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Same Sex Marriage (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) African Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama did not mince words about same-sex “marriage” in an   address   earlier this week opening his archdiocese’s general assembly, telling delegates that Nigerian bishops will stand firm on defending marriage as exclusively between a man and woman. “The culture of ‘same-sex marriage’ is alien to our understanding of the family and should not be imposed on Nigerians,” he told priests, nuns, and lay delegates partaking in the August 24-28 assembly in the Archdiocese of Jos , Nigeria. Last year Nigeria was condemned by the West for passing a law which prohibited same-sex “marriage” as well as propagandizing by the homosexual lobby. The Nigerian Catholic bishops , however,   congratulated the government   for the law’s passage, calling the decision in a January 2014 letter “courageous … and a clear indication of the ability of our great country to stand shoulders high in the protection of our Nigerian

Pastor tells trans activist: Gay ‘rights’ are ‘false rights’

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The transsexual known as Diana Sanchez, whose biological sex is male and is a political figure in Mexico City ’s leftist party PRD , wrote a letter to Mexico ’s Churches, on July 29 demanding he and other pastors “obey” the Pope in “abstaining from discriminating and judging homosexuals.” Referring to the recent marches that have taken place across the country in favor of the right to life and the protection of natural marriage, the activist demanded that all pastors be investigated and “punished” when they “promote discrimination against citizens based on their sexual orientation” and “allowed and encouraged homophobic attacks.” He especially mentioned a particular pastor, whose city saw 80,000 marchers take to the streets on July 25. The activist argued that the decriminalization of abortion, which has been legal in Mexico City since 2007, and the recent legalization of “marriage” between persons of the same sex have been a “good for the population.” The Pastors ans