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  • 10 Feb 2011
    Canadian Catholic bishops urge sexual restraint

    Decrying the "sex-saturated world of contemporary Western culture," Catholic bishops in Canada are urging church members – married and single – to live chastely.

  • 1 Feb 2011
    Anglican leaders' meeting affected by absentees

    A six-day meeting of global Anglican leaders ended with discussions on the nature of leadership and acknowledgment of the missing voices.

  • 10 Jul 2010
    Why the obsession with sex?

    The papers are full of Anglican argument once more. The presenting issues, as usual, are sex and gender. But why?

  • 24 Feb 2010
    Seeking a faithful conversation on sexuality

    In argument we attack and defend on the basis of positions we know and hold. Conversations are determined by questions in which we inquire also about what we don’t, and can entertain the new, says Martin Marty. Nowhere is such an approach needed more than in the vociferously contested debate about sexuality.

  • 10 Feb 2010
    US religious leaders urged to promote better sexual health, education and justice

    America's religious leaders must do a better job of promoting sexual health, education and justice in congregations and communities, the Religious Institute asserts in a new report released on 10 February 2010.

  • 22 May 2009
    Evangelicals urge Church of Scotland to back the ministry of gay people

    A strong statement from a range of evangelical organizations has called on the Church of Scotland to affirm the membership and ministry of gay people in the church on biblical and traditional grounds - in opposition to anti-gay activists.

  • 13 May 2009
    Kenyan church leader in row over polygamy and marriage bill

    Kenyan church leaders have become embroiled in an argument about a draft marriage law with a clause on polygamy. But civil rights activists say that the bill could end a range of abuses, and that church practise should not be imposed on the whole of society.

  • 11 May 2009
    Unnatural acts?

    ‘Men-women’ have become the criminalized ‘homosexuals’ of Senegal, a ‘gay’ man is left unburied, and the transsexual teenager lives with the medical diagnosis of ‘psychosis’, writesMelissa Conroy. So what is 'normal' and what part does religion play in defining it?

  • 6 Apr 2009
    Bishop says religions are biggest obstacle to gay rights, but they can change

    Bishop Gene Robinson says that religion has been the biggest obstacle to full equality and dignity - but it can also make the biggest contribution to transforming the situation.

  • 2 Apr 2009
    Jesuit priest and AIDS activist denounces criminalisation of homosexuality

    Zambian AIDS activist and Jesuit priest Michael Kelly has called for the decriminalisation of same-sex relations. He says laws banning homosexuality are fanning the spread of HIV.