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Uganda may lose the chance of hosting a major AIDS research institution if it passes an anti-homosexual bill that seeks to significantly curtail gay rights, a UN official said Monday.
After students at River’s Edge High School in Richland watched a documentary about childr
Make those New Year’s plans early. Mercy Trips Healthcare Outreach is currently selling tickets for the New Year’s Eve "Boot Scoot Boogie Bash." The event benefits the 2010 medical mission trips to Kanginima Hospital and Eastern Uganda.
Sen. Chuck Grassley has condemned a proposal in Uganda’s parliament to criminalize homosexuality, calling it “un-Christian and unjust.”
KAMPALA, Uganda, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Female genital mutilation has been outlawed in Uganda under a bill passed unanimously by the Parliament, lawmakers said.
Photo by cephas01 For anyone who read Amanda Hess's great cover story for the Washington City Paper on sex at Catholic University, it will come as no surprise that the queer community on CUA's campus is not exactly visible. Kudos to the LGBT kids who are trying to make a place for themselves at Catholic. But even straight unmarried students can't do the damn thing, according to the university's ...
Eric Glustrom, of Boulder, not only has his name on bags of Doritos, he received a $10,000 Do Something grant for his organization, Educate. ( MARK LEFFINGWELL )
The African Children's Choir joined singer-diva N'Kenge and the Cincinnati Pops for a holiday concert with guest conductor Robert Bernhardt.
The 7th annual Wild and Scenic Environmental Festival was a sold-out event in both Mammoth and Bishop early this month, as it has been for the three years Friends of the Inyo has hosted it in the Eastern Sierra, according to Director Stacy Corless.
The Ugandan Parliament Unanimously Passed A Bill Banning Female Genital Mutilation, A Traditional Rite That Has Sparked An International Outcry And Is Practiced In Some African And Asian Communities.
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As Episcopalians in America were electing their second gay bishop, their Anglican cousins in Uganda were embroiled in controversial legislation that would put those bishops in prison for life or condemn them to death.
Photo by pixelmama Investigators now believe a kitchen appliance may have sparked this week's deadly fire in a Streeterville high rise. The jury in the Andre Crawford case ruled that he is eligible for the death penalty ; they will reconvene on Monday to begin deliberating his sentence. Fallout over the frozen meter payboxes continues . An "Internet Grinch" ruins a community's tree lighting for ...
“I’m a little embarrassed to admit,” Tiffany Shaw-Diaz says, “that I couldn’t find Ghana on a map.”Few Americans probably could, but Shaw-Diaz did something about it. She not only learned where the small African nation is located (Atlantic coast, right next to Togo, if that helps), but she found an inspired, and inspiring, way to learn more about the place and its people, and then help them live ...
Even all of your favorite bloggers have taken sweet, sweet Sulzberger severance deals and will no longer be working after 6pm today. Luckily fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern was skulking...
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (BP)--A proposed law in Uganda that would require execution of some homosexuals has been condemned by California mega-church pastor Rick Warren.
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