It's Wednesday, January 31st, 2024.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. We often talk

about worldview conflicts, but sometimes we're looking at a conflict that is so

conflicted we simply can't ignore it. That's what's going on right now. In conflict, for example, this is just a microcosm between

African Catholics and the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church over his command concerning same sex blessings.

And command's actually the right word.

He has set this down as a matter of papal authority

and is to be true in all places everywhere

recognized by every bishop, but there are some bishops in Africa who are saying they're not going to perform nor allowed to be performed a single same sex blessing regardless of what the Pope says. This has the attention of

religion news service headline news story quote Catholic clergy in

Uganda accused the west of a new colonialism through LGBTQ activism. Now I've been looking for this argument to emerge and it did in this case and it did in exactly this way.

And this is exactly the argument that we should have seen coming.

You have African Catholic leaders in this case, but it's not just Catholics.

Catholics are on the front line because of the circumstances.

But it's, it is Christian clergy, ministries there in Uganda and Africa and general who are saying

we're not going to go along with the LGBTQ activism that is coming from

Western sources and in particular from Western religious denominations of the liberal nature

and increasingly from Western governments including under the Biden administration

the government of the United States of America putting explicit pressure on

third world countries, African nations in particular to liberalize their

LGBTQ laws and furthermore to undo and certainly not to pass laws that would restrict

LGBTQ behaviors and all the rest although as we have discussed on the briefing

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