Crackdown on gay men in Senegal in wake of punitive new law criminalises HIV infection
Monitoring by the HIV Justice Network, an international organisation that tracks the criminalisation of people living with HIV worldwide, puts the total number of detentions under Article 319 since early February at more than 70, with at least 62 linked to the Diallo investigation.
Breaking point of global Anglican in offing as conservative coalition firmly reject homosexuality and liberal theology
Primates of Africa’s two largest national provinces, Nigeria and Uganda, have joined their Rwandan counterpart in endorsing the measure, according to Bishop Paul Donison, Gafcon’s general secretary. So have smaller churches ranging from Myanmar to the Americas.
Homosexuals in Burkina Faso face punitive prison terms and fines
The new law goes into effect immediately with individuals in same-sex relationships risking prison sentences as well as fines, Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala said during a briefing broadcast by the state TV. He described homosexual acts as “bizarre behaviour.”
Anglican schism over homosexuality force Church of England to relook at status Archbishop of Canterbury
For centuries, the man who crowns British monarchs as the senior-most bishop in the Church of England, which formed after Henry VIII’s 16th-century split from Rome, has also been the titular head of 85 million Anglicans across 165 countries.
