A psychotherapist faces being struck off after trying to 'convert' a homosexual man. Lesley Pilkington, 60, a therapist for 20 years, is accused of 'praying to God' to 'heal' the patient . Mrs Pilkington, will appear at a landmark disciplinary hearing this week where she faces being stripped of her accreditation to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
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January 16th, 2011
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January 16th, 2011
Three former Anglican bishops made history on Saturday by becoming the first to be ordained as Catholic priests under a new scheme set up by the Vatican.
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January 16th, 2011
The 200 robed and bearded men gathered at dusk on the market square, rolled out their prayer rugs and intoned Allah's praises as dismayed townspeople looked on.
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January 16th, 2011
After broad day light murder of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer by his bodyguard in Islamabad and threatening marches by Islamists in Pakistan have created feeling of insecurity among millions of Pakistani Christians.
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January 15th, 2011
The European Union, bowing to pressure from Muslim lobby groups, has quietly abandoned a new measure that would have required halal [religiously approved for Muslims] meat products to carry a label alerting consumers that the animals were not stunned, and therefore conscious, just before slaughter.
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January 15th, 2011
A Dire Straits song was ruled too offensive for the airwaves in Canada because it contains the word 'f****t' and can now no longer be played in its original form.
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January 14th, 2011
One in five children from a broken home loses touch with a parent within three years and never sees them again, it is revealed today.
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January 14th, 2011
Unborn twin babies socialize as early as week 14 of gestation, a new study has shown.
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January 14th, 2011
On January 10, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeals in Canada released an opinion holding that marriage commissioners in Canada could not refuse to perform same-sex “marriage” ceremonies on the grounds that doing so would violate their religious beliefs. The case arose after some marriage commissioners objected to performing same-sex “marriage” ceremonies.
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January 13th, 2011
The Church of England is braced for the first wave of defections to the Roman Catholic Church this weekend when the Pope's group for disaffected Anglicans opens its doors and three former bishops are ordained as priests.