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The World Health Organization is moving toward declassifying transgender identity as a mental disorder in its global list of medical conditions, with a new study lending additional support to a proposal that would delete the decades-old designation.
The change, which has so far been approved by each committee that has considered it, is under review for the next edition of the W.H.O. codebook, which classifies diseases and influences the treatment of patients worldwide.
It has become an ostentatious ritual of consumerist self-sacrifice; people who have it all now seem to prefer having nothing at all. And, as with watching birds or going Paleo, talking about the material purge is just as important as actually doing it. So there are blog posts — in which you can see minimalism’s can-do optimism curdle into something tyrannical.
The identity of the new Bishop of Tewkesbury has been revealed.
The Venerable Robert Springett, the current Archdeacon of Cheltenham, will take over from Martyn Snow, who left to become the Bishop of Leicester.
He said he was "deeply honoured" and will be ordained and consecrated as a bishop by the Archbishop of Canterbury on 30 November.
Parents and teachers are today urged to report homophobic, racist and religious bullying to the police, the Home Secretary has says today as she vowed to "stamp out" hate crime.
Amber Rudd says that Britain is a proud and diverse society and warn that hate crime has "no place in a 21st Century Great Britain that works for everyone".
A gay Church of England priest has quit in order to marry his long-term male partner.
The Rev Clive Larsen left his position in the diocese of Manchester on Friday so he could get married on Monday without having to face disciplinary action, according to The Sunday Times. Larsen is believed to be the first priest to resign over the issue, although four other CoE priest have ignored the ban imposed by bishops and been punished as a result.
"The church does not permit it and if this is something you want to do, you have to pay the price and leave the church," said Larsen. "I am aware of two other clergy who have had [same-sex] marriages and the church has made life very difficult for them."
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Even on the days he lines up hours before the store opens in his neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Ernesto Salazar is not assured he’ll be able to buy basic food items, like flour and rice.
Under a government system, he can shop Thursdays for the goods, but some days the store shelves are empty by the time he gets inside. He can turn to the black market, where the costs are exponentially higher.
Petition to: The Archbishop of Canterbury - the Archbishop of Westminster - the President of the Methodist Church - the Moderator of the URC.
We call upon the leaders of the Church to be faithful to the Gospel as revealed in Jesus Christ, and to defend the faith.
There has been an 'exponential rise in attacks against Christians' in Egypt, the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom has warned.
Bishop Angaelos said the northern African nation was becoming 'more vulnerable to a disturbing wave of radicalism' because of a downturn in tourism, economic problems and loss of foreign trade.
If worries about extremism in 2016 show no signs of abating, then neither does the debate over how to counter it in the UK. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights, chaired by the Labour MP Harriet Harman, is the latest in a long line to raise concerns over government policy to tackle extremism. Although the government has promised to introduce a counter-extremism bill, none has yet been forthcoming.
Well this is all going very well isn’t it? I refer of course to the totally unforeseeable, impossible to predict wave of attacks in Germany and elsewhere across the continent in recent days.