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June 2015

Middle East

Turkey’s LGBT community shaken by police crackdown

This article was published in partnership with Mashable. This year’s gay pride celebration in Istanbul was going to be...

Jun 29, 2015
Africa

Guns, knives and rape: The plight of a gay Ethiopian refugee in Kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ibrahim became aware of his homosexuality in high school, living in the city of Adama,...

Jun 29, 2015
Africa

Inside the nightmares of Africa’s LGBT refugees

NAIROBI, Kenya — Cynthia, an LGBT activist in Burundi, was thrown in jail and beaten up by police...

Jun 26, 2015
World

Pope Francis channels Saint Francis to save the planet

ROME — When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires made his infrequent visits to Rome before becoming Pope...

Jun 18, 2015
Americas

Meet the evangelical preacher who teaches unaccompanied migrant girls how to sew

TORRANCE, California — On a hot Sunday morning in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance, a diminutive preacher in...

Jun 16, 2015
Asia

Indonesia’s secret abortion problem

By Rebecca Gibian and Diana Crandall  JAKARTA and YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — In a country where abortion is illegal...

Jun 15, 2015
World

Fault lines surface as the Vatican’s climate encyclical leaks

BY JASON BERRY AND VALERIA FRASCHETTI ROME — An hour before L’espresso magazine leaked an Italian-language PDF of...

Jun 15, 2015
Africa

Anti-LGBT groups are making inroads across East Africa

BY. JACOB KUSHNER AND ANTHONY LANGAT NAIROBI, Kenya — Two years after Ugandan legislators proposed a law that...

Jun 15, 2015
Asia

The gay sex worker who defied Sharia Law in Banda Aceh to organize

By Nick Street JAKARTA, Indonesia — Faisal Riza started as a sex worker in one of the riskiest...

Jun 12, 2015
World

Vatican removes de facto immunity for bishops concealing sex abuse

ROME — The Vatican announced today that Pope Francis’s Council of Cardinals — nine top churchmen charged with reforming...

Jun 10, 2015
Environment

In living color: Antarctica’s vibrant wildlife under the sea

LOW ISLAND, ANTARCTICA — When I first gave thought to what might live under the sea in Antarctica, I imagined...

Jun 09, 2015
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