Tag: religion
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Hopelessness, segregation and divisive politics have driven Northern Ireland’s peace generation to violence
OPINION As the centenary of the partition of Ireland approaches, the streets of Northern Ireland are facing the ‘worst rioting in years’. Many of those leading the violence, some of whom have now been arrested, have been strikingly young. A significant number were born after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA). What has brought this […]
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Bottom-up activism, clerical intolerance and searching for hope: an interview with LGBTQ+ Diaspora Cypriots
VIDEO Two years after a Parikiaki survey revealed that less than half of LGBTQ+ Cypriots in the UK had come out to their family, Politika News sat down (virtually) with the diaspora’s LGBTQ+ group to talk about the homophobia and transphobia that persist in the community today. Religious dogma, bottom-up activism, the role of social […]
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Poland’s Virgin Mary case: our barbaric blasphemy laws need revoking
CN: this article contains discussion of sexual abuse and homophobia OPINION On the 2 March 2021 a Polish court acquitted activists Joanna Gzyra-Iskandar, Anna Prus and Elżbieta Podleśna. They had been put on trial for ‘offending religious feelings‘, after using the image of the Virgin Mary whose halo displayed the colours of the LGBTQ+ pride rainbow flag, […]
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Interview: Polish feminist movement vows to enter Parliament and bring down far-right, Catholic government
VIDEO As Poland’s near total abortion ban now comes into effect, Politika News speaks with Wiktoria Sakowicz, a loyal activist of the rising feminist movement, Gals4Gals. Sakowicz explains why Polish women have never been more vulnerable and how the movement, responsible for the largest protests in the city of Lodz since 1981, is planning to […]
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An unholy legacy: the Mother and Baby Homes report reminds Ireland that the Catholic Church has blood on its hands
OPINION On the 12th of January 2021 the Irish government published the 3000-page final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, their hand having been forced by the leaking of the report to media outlets. The Commission was established in 2015 to provide a full account of what happened to vulnerable women […]
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An interview with Polish abortion rights protesters: ‘the Church and politicians will kill women in Poland’
INTERVIEW As Poland’s right-wing PiS (Law and Justice) government puts on hold the implementation of a new court ruling that would outlaw almost all abortions, Politika News talks to Polish women who have been protesting over the last week. They try to put into words their anger and fatigue, as well as what life for […]
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