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Source: Reuters , Associated Press via MSNBC BERLIN (Reuters) - An openly gay Lutheran cleric is one of two candidates for the post of bishop of Schleswig in northern Germany, Reuters reports. Horst Gorski, a senior cleric from Hamburg, is described by Reuters as a widely respected theologian who helped...

Source: Pink News , BBC News Gay activists in Greece find that they have, at least temporarily, become strange political bedfellows with the Greek Orthodox Church in opposing a draft parliamentary bill that would allow unmarried couples to make their relationship legally binding, by signing a simple...

Source: Scotsman , Press Association , The Herald , Times (London) A Catholic bishop remained defiant after he was condemned for claiming the gay community had launched a is a "huge and well-orchestrated conspiracy" against Christian values. Bishop of Motherwell Joseph Devine said there was...

Source: This Is Oxfordshire THE Unitarian congregation at Oxford's Harris-Manchester College is calling for gay couples to be allowed to marry in church. More than 300 gay couples have 'married' in the county since civil partnerships became legal on December 5, 2005. But, although they are...

Source: Guardian , Times (London) , Independent , Press Association , Daily Mail A new book by the Bishop of Winchester has rekindled the row over the Church of England’s attitude to homosexuality. The book was released just as Church of England bishops prepare to meet for their biennial synod. The bishop's...

Source: Guardian and PinkNews One of England's most senior bishops has argued that the Bible sanctions same-sex relationships, using the bonds between Jesus and John the disciple, and David and Jonathan as examples. The Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Rev James Jones, a conservative evangelical, expressed...

Source: Times (London) THE Dutch were debating the limits of freedom of expression last week after an artist who photographed gay men wearing masks of the prophet Muhammad was forced into hiding and her work removed from a museum exhibit. Speaking on the telephone from an unspecified location in the...

Source: Telegraph and Ekklesia Britain's senior Roman Catholic leader used his New Year message to praise marriage and deliver an implicit attack on the Government's gay equality laws. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the head of the Church in England and Wales, said most parents did not...

Source: Independent (London) Tens of thousands of people in Spain have rallied in defence of the "traditional family" in a country where the government has legalised gay marriage and facilitated divorce. The crowd in the predominantly Roman Catholic country roared when Pope Benedict XVI appeared...

Source: Guardian A Spanish clergyman is to be investigated after complaints that he is holding seminars which aim to "rehabilitate homosexuals". Protestant minister Marcos Zapata, head of an organisation running youth centres for troubled children in Galicia, prompted the row after reports...