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Source: UK Gay News , GayNZ.com LAGOS -- A gay leader of the Changing Attitude Nigeria (CAN) group in Nigeria says he feared for his life after a mob attack outside a funeral ceremony in Port Harcourt on Thursday. "I have never known fear like I knew when they were brutalizing me. I thought they...

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: Express Gay News and Jamaica Gleaner The leader of the Metropolitan Community Churches, a worldwide assembly of gay and lesbian congregants, is calling for an International Day of Action Feb. 14 in response to a bloody attack against three gay men in Jamaica. Rev. Nancy Wilson and leaders of...

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: Xtra West Homophobic remarks attributed to Sikh leader Balwant Singh Gill in The Vancouver Sun have unleashed a firestorm within the queer community, spotlighting divisions between those who say homophobia is the primary issue and others more focused on what they consider the racist response...

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...

Source: Globe and Mail MONTREAL -- Canada's senior Roman Catholic clergyman has issued a sweeping apology for the church's historical sins in Quebec, trying to rehabilitate the institution's image just as debate rages in the province over religion and identity. Cardinal Marc Ouellet, archbishop...

Source: Reuters ROME (Reuters Life!) - An Italian chorister who was forced to leave his church choir after publicly admitting he was gay has said he intends to bring his case to the Bishop for appeal, Italian media reported on Tuesday. In a story that has incensed gay rights and religious groups alike...

Source: UK Gay News RIGA -- Watchmen on the Walls is not a hate group, Scott Lively declared during the group’s conference which opened yesterday in the Latvian capital. The anti-gay American author of the notorious The Pink Swastika was introduced to delegates as “the prominent human rights activist...