The Archbishop of Canterbury has made clear his opposition to the election last Friday of an openly gay and partnered lesbian priest, Canon Mary Glasspool, as Suffragan Bishop of Los Angeles.
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December 11th, 2009
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December 11th, 2009
The Virginia Court of Appeals has been asked to keep a mother and daughter together by affirming a state law that voids orders stemming from out-of-state civil unions.
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December 11th, 2009
Thirty elderly women have been arrested in Eritrea while praying together, one of their relatives living in the United States has told the BBC.
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December 11th, 2009
Wales could get its first court based on Islamic law under proposals from a Muslim body, BBC Wales has learned.
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December 11th, 2009
Hazim Jarjis, the priest at the Mar Afram church in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, is a worried man. Armed groups have repeatedly targeted his flock, he said, 'in an attempt to distance them from their Iraqi brothers.'
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December 11th, 2009
A journalist in Maine has been fired from a publication after 19 years for replying to a homosexual activist's e-mail.
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December 11th, 2009
Children who engage in 'transphobic' bullying in the playground or classroom could be guilty of a hate crime and investigated by police under new government guidance. Pupils could be expelled and their parents forced to attend counselling if they refuse to accept that such behaviour is wrong.
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December 10th, 2009
Three women living in the Irish Republic challenged the country?s strict abortion law at the European Court of Human Rights yesterday, claiming that their rights had been violated.
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December 10th, 2009
A blow for free speech was struck by the courts yesterday as the case against two Christian hoteliers accused of insulting a Muslim guest was thrown out.
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December 10th, 2009
Last month, 175 people in Chhattisgarh, India, renounced the Christian faith and went back to their previous belief system as part of a reconversion event arranged by a member of the Indian parliament, Dilip Singh Judev.