Buddha Buzz Weekly: Vesak, the Buddha’s Birthday

Buddhist celebrate Vesak, Sri Lanka president pardons a Buddhist nationalist leader, and a new app offers meditation by and for people of color. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
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Poland’s Populists Pick a New Top Enemy: Gay People

With public concern about migration on the wane, the governing Law and Justice party is making opposition to gay rights a cornerstone of its campaigning. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/world/europe/poland-gay-rights.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Mormon Church Changes L.G.B.T. Policy, but Those Who Left Say This Isn’t Enough

Times readers who described themselves as Mormon or were raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reflected on the news that it would allow children of same-sex couples to be baptized. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/reader-center/mormon-church-lgbt.html?partner=rss&emc=rss