World

Pope Francis condemned the criminalization of homosexuality and urged church bishops to have a change of heart on the issue.

Indonesia introduced new rules in a law that could harm LGBT people, and a Poland town changed its anti-LGBT stance.

George Soros gave an LGBT group in Colombia over $122,000, and the Islamic police arrested Muslims on suspicion of attending a same-sex marriage wedding.

Barbados decriminalizes same-sex relationships, and LGBT activist Edwin Chiloba was murdered in Kenya.

(WB) The Upper House of the States General of the Netherlands, the supreme bicameral legislature of the kingdom, on Jan. 18 voted to amend Article 1 of the Dutch Constitution, expanding it to prohibit discrimination against someone because of a disability or sexual orientation. 

(WB) In tersely worded public statements to the media and on Twitter, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon castigated the conservative government of U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for announcing on Jan. 16 that Westminster would block Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill from being signed into law by King Charles III.