Rev. Fr. JP Heath

Rev. Fr. Johannes Petrus (JP) Heath was born in Windhoek, Namibia in 1964, the middle son of three children. He experienced his call to the priesthood while working in a bank. He moved to St George's Home for Boys as part of his formation. After two years of study at St. John the Baptist Seminary in Johannesburg, he was moved to St. Paul's Seminary in Grahamstown where he first finished his Diploma in Theology (with Merit), and then moved to complete a B.Th. (Honors) at Rhodes University. Fr. JP was ordained in the Diocese of Johannesburg in 1994 and served his curacy at St. Michael's, Bryanston. While serving at the Cathedral Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Johannesburg, he started a ministry for streetchildren – an outreach to people on the margins of society that continued when he was appointed as Rector of Christ Church, Mayfair, a parish placed in the middle of a predominantly Muslim and Hindu suburb of Johannesburg. In 2000, after testing HIV-positive, JP started exploring ways of initiating a ministry on HIV within the diocese of Johannesburg. Eventually, he confounded the International Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV (INERELA+) in 2001. He was the founding coordinator and then executive director of INERELA+ until December 2012. Fr. JP helped grow the network from an initial membership of eight, to a global network with more than 10,000 members from all faiths. In January 2013, he moved to Sweden, where he is now actively working as Policy Advisor on HIV, Human Sexuality and Theology for the International Department of the Church of Sweden. He continues to serve internationally on a number of Boards and advisory bodies, including the UNAIDS HIV and Human Rights Reference Group, the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance HIV strategy group, the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Action International Reference Group, and the Global Interfaith Network on All Sexes, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (GIN-SSOGIE) steering committee.

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Rev. Fr. JP Heath

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When hero leads to zero

Synod on the Family – Should we care?

The conservative religious right?

A response to CBCP’s linking of HIV-AIDS cases with broken homes

5 reasons why Sodom and Gomorrah has nothing to do with homosexuality

A closer look at a constrained statement of love and care

Behavior change – Individual or societal?

Shortsighted treatment, long term costs

Recognizing the spiritual needs and gifts of LGBTI people

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Negative transgender-related media messages linked with adverse mental health outcomes

Sexual minority adults more likely to experience harms from other people’s drinking

Trans women can safely maintain estrogen treatments during gender affirming surgery

Sexual harassment claims by less feminine women perceived as less credible

Can colors influence relationships? Check the colors supposedly good for love

Emotionally neglected or severely sexually abused girls report riskier sexual behavior

Efforts to increase sexual orientation acceptance can address LGBTQ youth suicide

Facebook posts help facilitate belief that HPV vaccine is dangerous to health

Depression and stress could dampen efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines

How you should pack for a cross country move

Bullied lesbian, gay and bisexual students more likely to carry weapons

LGB adults less likely to take cholesterol-lowering meds

Sexual consent better taught in continuum style approach, rather than by legal definition of ‘consent’ alone

To stand united, we also need to watch our tongues…

About sex work (and prostitution) among Filipinos at the time of Covid-19

I may be HIV+ but that still doesn’t mean I’ll sleep with you

Pride beyond the sash and the crown

Sexual, gender minority youths more likely to have obesity, binge eating disorder

New Zealand, Britain ease rules on blood donations by gay, bi men

Almost half of young gay sportsmen experience homophobia

To live with HIV, ‘start with self-acceptance’

Living with HIV in Digos City

‘Don’t ‘fix’ people; let them decide who or what they want to be’

Pansexual in Mindanao: ‘Falling in love with a person’s soul, not the body parts’

At what cost? HIV service disruptions at the time of Covid-19

Keeping the faith at the time of COVID-19

Being trans at the time of Covid-19 lockdown

Living with HIV at the time of Covid-19 lockdown

LGBTQIA people as Covid-19’s hidden victims forced to choose between risking infection or starving

Trans kagawad at the COVID-19 frontline

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