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  • 3 Jan 2013
    We'll continue Soho Masses in new venue, say LGBT Catholics

    Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Catholics say they will continue to hold a regular mass despite being banned from their current venue by Archbishop Nichols.

  • 3 Jan 2013
    Review: Fingerprints of Fire, Footprints of Peace

    Bernadette Meaden reviews the book that many radical Christians have been waiting for. It shows, she says, how spirituality can be a unifying, liberating force, and how looking at the world from a Jesus perspective can be joyful and life-enhancing.

  • 1 Jan 2013
    Women's education and health workers killed in Pakistan

    Seven development workers in north-west Pakistan, six of them women working at a health and education project, have been shot dead.

  • 31 Dec 2012
    UN Secretary-General urges reforms to deter violence against women

    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges reform following the death of a young Indian woman who was gang-raped on a bus in New Delhi.

  • 30 Dec 2012
    Homophobia is alive and well

    It’s been a good Christmas for opponents of marriage equality. They managed to make headlines on both Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

  • 23 Dec 2012
    Anglican coalition broadly welcomes equal marriage provisions

    The LGBT Anglican Coalition has welcomed the UK government equal marriage proposals, but criticised the Church of England's exclusion from them.

  • 22 Dec 2012
    American attitudes to LGBT people shifting, latest polls show

    In the wake of historic victories for LGBT supporters in last month's US elections, USA Today/Gallup polls find growing acceptance among Americans.

  • 20 Dec 2012
    Disability, abortion and UKIP

    What must life be like for UKIP's press officers? Just as the party’s support is rising, their candidates keep expressing views that are even farther to the right than UKIP’s official policies. Last month, UKIP’s culture spokesperson described adoption by same-sex couples as “child abuse”. Now one of their local government candidates in Kent has suggested that disabled children should face compulsory abortion.

  • 18 Dec 2012
    Equal marriage: Essex court case will not help

    I am disappointed to see that a same-sex couple in Essex say that they plan to sue the government over the ban on same-sex weddings taking place within the Church of England.

  • 18 Dec 2012
    Religion, feminism and gender-making theory

    What are some of the implications of the discussion of critical religion for feminist and gender theory making? The gendered binaries of spiritual/material or spirit/flesh still haunt us, says Dr Alison Jasper, in the tendency to regard women and the female as better fitted for certain roles that tend to be less well rewarded in terms of money and influence.