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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...

Africans will not accept Western push for gay ‘marriage’: cardinal

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Africans will not accept Western dictates to condone homosexuality and gay “marriage,” a Senegalese cardinal told the press prior to a meeting of West African bishops last month. “Beware...we are living in a world where the Western world , especially the Americans, behave like people who have to think for the rest of the world, they have to decide for the rest of the world,” said Cardinal Théodore Adrien Sarr , Archbishop Emeritus of Dakar , as reported by   Ghanaweb . “But we say that no, you can’t decide for the rest of the world,” added Sarr, past president of the Regional Conference of West Africa, which was meeting in the Ghanaian capital of Accra for its plenary. Africans must be careful to not be indoctrinated to accept same-sex “marriage,” Sarr warned. “We also have our culture, traditions and so we need to avoid the several limitations of the Western world,” said the 79-year-old cardinal. “We need to do things based in our traditions, our practices and cu...

Satan and Sodomy by John Piper

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Gustave Doré, Depiction of Satan, the antagonist of John Milton's Paradise Lost c. 1866 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The supernatural monster who orchestrates the kidnapping, enslaving, and thousand-fold drugging, selling, raping, and killing of girls around the globe, is the same one who has masterminded the murderous cultural delusion — from the highest court to the lowest porn-flick — that the practice of sodomy is delightful, not deadly. Among the several, carefully-chosen, understated, inflammatory words in that sentence, let’s start with “monster.” I’m talking about Satan . We do not feel what we ought to about this fiend. In Revelation 12:9 he is called “the great dragon that ancient serpent , who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world.” The scope and horror of this being is hinted at with images. He is not a mere garden snake. His tail sweeps down a third of the stars. He crouches at Bethlehem to devour the new-born Son of God (Revelation 12...

Nigerian bishops reject foreign efforts to impose abortion and gay unions

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English: Seal of the President of Nigeria Category:National symbols of Nigeria (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) ABUJA, Nigeria -- The Catholic Bishops of Nigeria have called for the Church to be “more courageous and consistent in Pro-Life activities in favour of human life, marriage and the family as counter-cultural antidotes to anti-life ideologies and practices.” The call came in a communiqué issued following an international pro-life march and conference organized by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria and held in Abuja from June 5-7. “The relentless promotion by some international organizations of ‘sexual and reproductive rights’, a euphemism for abortion, is deceptive and unacceptable,” the communiqué asserts. The bishops demand that “legislation for abortion, which is the intentional killing of innocent babies in the womb, be denounced and abrogated,” and promise that they “remain resolved in our efforts to ensure that abortion is never legalized in our country.” ...

This is not equality

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Official portrait of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In Nigeria , gunmen kidnapped more than 100 schoolgirls and torched the surrounding town on Tuesday. A day before, a deadly blast killed 71 people. A day later, 18 people were killed in another attack. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department is laser-focused on . . . promoting homosexuality. In 2011, former Secretary Hillary Clinton and President Obama directed all federal agencies working abroad to protect and promote lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons. To give an example how this shakes out, within hours of an arrest – and release the same day – in Uganda of an employee of a US -funded clinic for alleged “unethical research” and “recruiting homosexuals,” the State Department released a statement. This “heightens our concern” for the safety of LGBT individuals. And the U.S. suspended operations of the entire health clinic . Patients and health providers were not at ri...

EU pressure on homosexuality complicates EU-Africa summit

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Countries using the Euro de jure Countries and territories using the Euro de facto Countries in the EU not using the Euro (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) April 4, 2014 ( C-FAM ) - European pressure on African nations to change laws on homosexuality has created a backlash that may threaten this week's meeting between leaders of the two continents European officials have been scrambling to appease African leaders ahead of this week’s summit of EU and African leaders in Brussels . The summit is meant to address a host of issues on which the EU and Africa cooperate. Homosexuality is not one of them. African governments reacted negatively when the European Parliament passed a resolution last month threatening sanctions on countries that punish homosexual acts. The resolution was a response to Uganda and Nigeria toughening sodomy laws and outlawing the promotion of homosexuality and same-sex marriage. The European Parliament asked that the governments of Uganda and Nigeria no l...

Nigerian bishops defend same-sex ‘marriage’ ban after critics claim it’s out of touch with Pope

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ABUJA , Nigeria, March 25, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The president of the Nigerian Catholic Bishops ’ Conference has made a strong defense of the bishops’ support for a bill banning same-sex “marriage” against critics who allege the bishops’ position is out of touch with Pope Francis. “It is a mischievous and faulty generalization to reason that because we resist same-sex ‘marriage’ we differ from our Pope who said, ‘If a person is gay and seeks God and has goodwill, who am I to judge?’" Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Jos said in his opening remarks at the bishops’ recent plenary meeting. Archbishop Kaigama "The position of the Catholic Church in Nigeria in respect of same sex union and other moral vices is in consonance with that of the universal Church and in conformity with the social teachings of the Church," Archbishop Kaigama said according to  Catholic News Service of Nigeria . “Our compassion for the weak, the marginalized and those who suff...

African leaders urged to boycott EU summit over criticism of anti-homosexuality bills

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa , March 18, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The African, Caribbean and Pacific Parliament (ACP) has issued a statement denouncing the European Parliament's decision to recommend sanctions against African nations that refuse to kowtow to the EU’s homosexual agenda. The ACP is calling on African heads of state to boycott the EU-Africa summit scheduled for May, according to  South Africa News24 . The  ACP  is an organization composed of 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific states that are connected to the European Union under the "ACP-EC Partnership Agreement." Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni 's decision to sign an anti-homosexuality has been strongly condemned -even by pro-family leaders - because of the bill's harsh penalties. The European Parliament  voted last week  to recommend heavy economic penalties, the denial of travel visas, the withdrawal of foreign aid and other sanctions against Uganda and Nigeria in response to their...

European Parliament votes to impose heavy sanctions against pro-family African nations

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ABUJA , Nigeria , March 14, 2014  - On Thursday, the European Parliament voted to recommend heavy economic sanctions, the denial of travel visas, the withdrawing of foreign aid, as well as force the isolation from the international community of African nations that refuse to heel to the EU ’s homosexual agenda. During the debate at the European Parliament, French socialist Marie-Christine Vergiat and Dutch Liberal MEP Marietje Schaake both laid blame for the pro-family laws in Nigeria and Uganda on “evangelists from the United States .” Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Meanwhile in the capitol of Nigeria, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Navi Pillay met with determined resistance to her advocacy for the homosexual lifestyle. Addressing the UN delegation in Nigeria, the attorney general of the Nigerian federal government, Mohammed Adoke, emphasized that Nigeria’s laws “do not criminalize individual sexual orientation,” but explained that t...