News Suriname Religion: Scientific literature on corruption makes no reference to any group’s religious beliefs as a motivational factor
To say that PPP’s corruption is motivated by religious beliefs, by which she means Hindu religious ... with 78 in Trinidad, 73 in Suriname, and surprisingly 56 Mauritius with almost 50% Hindu ...
News Suriname Religion: Vatican considers ordaining older married men in remote parts of Amazon
The Vatican has raised the idea of ordaining older married men as priests in the Amazon's remote areas where there is a shortage of clergy, in what could be a historic shift, the BBC's religion editor ...
News Suriname Religion: Progress on jaguar conservation in Suriname
The largest carnivorous mammal of tropical America – the King of Beasts of the Amazon rainforest – is the jaguar. Found from the deserts of the American southwest as far south as Argentina, the jaguar is the world’s third largest feline, exceeded in size only by the lion and the tiger. The largest male jaguars […]
News Suriname Religion: Religion, the state, and the states explain why Mexico has stronger LGBT rights than the US
New research reveals the puzzling finding that Mexico has offered greater legal equality for LGBT people for a longer period of time than the United States. This can be explained by the wider separation of church and state in Mexican politics and the strong importance of human rights in new democracies. At the subnational level, states with more LGBT organisations and governors from left parties are more likely to recognise same sex relationships, but the religious makeup of states only matters in the United States, not in Mexico, write Caroline Beer (University of Vermont) and Victor Cruz Aceves (Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel).
News Suriname Religion: A Tiny Country With Surprising Religious Diversity
Suriname’s multiplicity is a product of colonialism and the arrival of ethnic groups from around the world. The first inhabitants hereabouts were indigenous groups that practiced a polytheistic ...
News Suriname Religion: ‘Today, We Declare Our Love to Our Forests and Ecosystems’
PARAMARIBO, Feb 15 2019 (IPS) - High Forest Cover and Low Deforestation (HFLD) nations ended a major conference in Suriname on Thursday, with the Krutu of Paramaribo Joint Declaration on HFLD Climate ...
