Argentina Senate to Vote on Gay Marriage
[President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner] harshly criticized church leaders on Monday, saying that their discourse on the issue resembled “the times of the Crusades” and that they failed to acknowledge how socially liberal Argentina had become.
“They are portraying this as a religious moral issue and as a threat to ‘the natural order,’ when what we are really doing is looking at a reality that is already there,” the president said from Beijing. “It would be a terrible distortion of democracy if they denied minorities their rights.”
Court rules FCC crackdown on broadcaster on air curse words is unconstitutional
TV shows can get four-letter filthy after an appeals court ruling Tuesday declared the Federal Communications Commission’s indecency rule unconstitutional.
The ruling, with provocative implications for evening TV, prompted cheers and jeers – and means the F-word might soon air on a network near you.
Iranian pastor faces execution after being detained for “Christian activities”
A well-known Iranian pastor faces execution after two judges agreed to make him “liable to capital punishment,” as part of a crackdown on the growing Protestant church movement in the Islamic nation, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, July 13.
Christian-Muslim clashes in Nigeria leave 8 dead
Christians and Muslims have clashed in eastern Nigeria, leaving eight people dead and 40 seriously wounded, with six mosques and one church also torched, police said on Wednesday.
Churches call for south Sudan to vote for independence
Senior religious leaders in south Sudan have called on people to vote for independence in a referendum to be held January next year.
The vote was promised as part of a 2005 deal to end years of war between the mainly Muslim north and the south, where Christianity is common.
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