official name: Tanzania
capital: Dar es Salaam
independence: 1961 (from UK)
president: Benjamin William MKAPA
population: 36.5million
languages: Swahili (official), English, Kiunguju
currency: Tanzanian shilling (TZS)
religion: Christian 30%, Muslim 35%
homosexual status: Illegal

Tanzania

Gay marriages a violation of Tanzanian laws


26 Mar 2007- In Tanzania the Penal Code makes it an offence to either have carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature or to permit a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature...more


 
Africa: Mixed Response As Gays Come Out

23 Feb 2007- The issue of lesbian and gay Africans' human rights again came to the fore this week as Anglican Church leaders met in Tanzania amid the continuing row over the consecration of a gay US bishop in 2003...more

Anglican head calls for humility in gay clergy row

18 Feb 2007- Zanzibar - The spiritual leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans reminded his bishops of the need for humility on Sunday in a veiled rebuke to those whose wrangling over gay clergy threatens to tear the church apart...more

Anglicans meet on gay saga in Tanzania

15 Feb 2007 - Anglican Church leaders yesterday gathered at a Dar es Salaam beach resort for a key conference as the denomination faces a schism threat over the ordination of homosexual bishops and same-sex unions...more



 

Anglicans Cut Links With Pro-Gay American Churches

15 Dec 2006- Dar-es-Salaam- The Anglican Church of Tanzania has announced it is cutting links with "bishops who consecrate homosexuals to the episcopate and those bishops who ordain such persons to the priesthood and the deaconate or license them to minister in their dioceses...more

Tanzanian Anglicans Sever Ties With Episcopal Church Over Gays

12 Dec 2006- The Anglican Church of Tanzania declared Tuesday that it was cutting ties with the Episcopal Church in the United States and would refuse to accept any assistance from Episcopal bishops, institutions or individuals that condone homosexuality...more

Islamic Clerics Condemn Freddie Mercury Birthday 

29 August 2006- Zanzibar, Tanzania - He may be Zanzibar's most famous son but religious leaders on the mostly Islamic island demanded the government block an international party to mark what would have been Freddie Mercury's 60th birthday...more

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