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Friday, 27 December 2013, at 2.45pm. That’s when my life transformed.
I was emotionally and physically exhausted after being the primary caregiver of my ex-partner, who was in chemo and working long hours as an editor at a magazine. I was desperately seeking comfort, support, spiritual guidance and community.
This perfect storm brought me to Unity mosque in downtown Toronto, one of a handful of prayer spaces in the world open to queer Muslims like myself.
Hundreds of schools in England, Waled and Northern Ireland have asked parents to allow children to break their Ramadan during exam season after government-backed guidelines raise concerns that their grades could suffer, the Daily Telegraph can reveal.
Ramadan has been gradually moving into the summer exams season in England and this year falls between June 6 and July 5, when many of the summer exams take place, for the first time in more than three decades.
A Church of England vicar has been fined for a drunken brawl with police during which he swore at an officer and claimed to have diplomatic immunity through the Vatican.
Gareth Jones punched, kicked, bit and spat at a police officer and paramedic who found him “passed out” in his clerical frock on Charing Cross Road, Covent Garden, central London.
The Yazidi girls were far from home when the Iraqi army rescue boats picked them up, starved and confused, from the banks of the Euphrates.
Unlike the hundreds of others escaping the city of Fallujah this week, Nadia and Mona were not residents.
The women are from Sinjar, more than 300 miles away in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Doris Hanson with A Shield and Refuge Ministry—a Christian outreach for those leaving the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS)—remembers when one of her clients tried to flee a Colorado City, Ariz.–Hildale, Utah polygamist community five years ago. Local police seized the woman, who was in her 20s, and drove her home, Hanson said. She ended up locked in a backyard trailer.
Parliament will join the 2016 Pride in London celebrations by flying the LGBT rainbow flag from the top of Portcullis House for the entire London Pride weekend (24-26 June). This is the very first time the rainbow flag has been flown from Parliament and we are delighted to mark the occasion in this way.
On Wednesday 25 May, Parliament's Workplace Equality Network, ParliOUT, gifted the 6ft x 12ft rainbow flag to the Speakers of both Houses. The flag will be raised at 1pm on Friday 24th June and fly proudly over our iconic building for Pride 2016.
An ACLU executive in Georgia resigned after claiming her children were upset by the presence of transgender women in a bathroom, concurrently announcing the launch of a new "civil rights" group.
Chilling email exchanges and documents shared between Planned Parenthood and StemExpress employees indicate their organ harvesting scheme violated federal law.
The House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives sent evidence to the Obama administration on Wednesday revealing that the nation’s largest abortion provider conspired with the organ procurement company to break the law and fraudulently cover it up.
An unusual number of suicides by top executives in Switzerland has prompted introspection in its business community over how senior managers are dealing with stress as its companies struggle to retain their status in the global economy.
The death last week of the former chief executive of Zurich Insurance, Martin Senn, came less than three years after the insurer's finance chief, Pierre Wauthier, took his own life.
Wauthier had blamed pressure from the company's then chairman Josef Ackermann in a suicide note, although Ackermann was cleared in a subsequent investigation.
The new chairman of GAFCON, Nigerian Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, took the gloves off in his first inaugural chairman's letter and blasted the Church of England over its decision to appoint an American Episcopal Bishop as the Assisting Bishop of Liverpool.
The Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh set his eyes on the Church of England and said a line had been crossed by the Church of England with the appointment of Bishop Susan Goff of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, as an assisting Bishop of Liverpool.