The Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has opposed LGBT group’s planned visit to Ethiopia.
LGBT , or GLBT , is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB , which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s.
The Synod also condemned Toto Tours, a US-based company that organized the tour which included religious sites such as the Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela.
The intention of the tour operator is to spread homosexuality in Ethiopia under the guise of tourism, the Synod said in a briefing on Wednesday.
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