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Earlier this week the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Belfast voted against going neutral on assisted suicide by a two to one majority.
Delegates rejected motion 80, ‘that this meeting believes that the BMA should adopt a neutral stance on assisted dying’, by 198 to 115 (63 per cent to 37 per cent).
A Spanish court has dismissed charges against Spanish Cardinal Antonio Cañizares alleging he incited "hatred" and "discrimination" for denouncing the aggressions of the "gay empire" against family values, according to the Spanish media.
For more than 10 years, Canon Andrew White presided over the only Anglican Church in Iraq, a role that led him to be known universally as the Vicar of Baghdad.
But his old parish of St George’s has become too dangerous, and today he leads a peripatetic life, spending time with his displaced congregation in Israel and Amman, Jordan.
For centuries, they have been filled with congregations singing hymns to send spirits soaring.
Now, empty churches are to be be filled with the sound of pop, rock and folk music, in a bid to make them the centres of the community once again.
Today David Cameron announced he would resign and listed redefining marriage as one of his most significant ‘achievements’ while in power.
This despite half of his MPs voting against him on the issue in 2013, despite the outcry it caused among the grassroots of his party, and despite the 669,444 people who signed our petition.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says Coalition MPs will be free to ignore the result of the public vote on same-sex marriage and follow their consciences after the national plebiscite.
Mr Turnbull said that when it comes to legislating change he would not bind his cabinet colleagues to vote according to the will of the people, but that he expected most MPs – including those opposed to same-sex marriage – to accept the public's verdict.
On Friday, the White House announced that New York City's Stonewall Inn—the site of 1969's Stonewall riots and birthplace of the modern LGBTQ movement—will be declared a new national monument.
Labour’s Shadow Schools Minister Nic Dakin writes for PinkNews to mark Diversity Week.
The Pentagon plans to announce the repeal of its ban on openly serving transgender service members next month, U.S. defense officials said.
The repeal would come five years after a 2011 decision to end the U.S. military's ban on gays and lesbians serving openly, despite fears - which proved unfounded - that such a move would be too great a burden in wartime and would undermine readiness.
Last month, Brompton’s Finborough Theatre hosted the London premiere of John Osborne’s play, A Subject of Scandal and Concern, first written for television in 1960. It is based on the true story of George Holyoake (1817-1906), the last man to stand trial for blasphemy in England.