Religion News Service said faith-group backlash endangered a planned LGBTQ tour of Ethiopia


On 14 June 2019 Religion News Service reported from Chicago that a planned Ethiopia tour for gay and lesbian travelers, which organiser Dan Ware hoped would visit famed churches and meet religious leaders, faced a growing backlash from faith groups.

Religion News Service said faith-group backlash endangered a planned LGBTQ tour of Ethiopia

The story framed the dispute as a clash between diaspora tourism marketing and conservative religious opposition inside and around Ethiopia’s Christian communities.

Kept as society and religion archive, the RNS report dates the mid-2019 controversy over an LGBTQ Ethiopia tour package.

Sources: Religion News Service