The bishops' staunch opposition to LGBTQ+ civil rights exemplifies the deep divide between the church in the global north and south. Read More
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A ranking Vatican leader has reiterated his opposition to Ghana's new law criminalizing people who identify as LGBTQ+, though he said sexual acts between people of the same-gender can be outlawed. Read More
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At a time when many church leaders, including Pope Francis, have decried the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people, bishops in Ghana persist in their support for such a new law, and even advocate forced conversion therapy. Read More
In Pope Francis' nearly-eleven year tenure, perhaps nothing he has done has prompted so many responses in such a short time as approving blessings for same-gender couples. Within a day or two of the Vatican declaration on blessings, titled Fiducia Supplicans, being released, dozens, if not hundreds, of church leaders and other Catholics spoke out—and strongly. Read More
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Global Catholic LGBTQ+ advocates have expressed concern about church leaders' actions in two African countries, which are seemingly at odds with Pope Francis' condemnation of laws that criminalize homosexuality. Read More
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The Catholic bishops in Ghana have taken a position on LGBTQ rights that is directly opposite to that of Pope Francis. That is the position taken by an opinion writer in The Advocate, a leading U.S. LGBTQ news outlet. Read More
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An international coalition of Catholic LGBTQ organizations has issued a statement calling on the Catholic hierarchy to “stand with the weak and the persecuted in Ghana,” in response to recent efforts in Ghana to further criminalize homosexuality. Read More
One of Ghana's top bishops has announced the creation of conversion therapy facilities as part of an effort to stop homosexuality from causing Ghana to become a Muslim-majority nation. Read More
Ghana's Catholic bishops have endorsed a bill that seeks to criminalize LGBTQ people, saying they desired this "abominable practice" be made illegal. Read More
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