Pope Denounces Gay Marriage in Canada
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VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II kept up his campaign against gay marriage Saturday, telling the ambassador from Canada - where some provinces allow same-sex couples to wed - that such unions create a "false understanding" of marriage.    In past months, the pope urged authorities to stop approving gay marriages, saying that they degrade the true sense of marriage...
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Canadian MPs reject a proposal by the governing Conservative party to overturn a law allowing gay marriage.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government will not force civic officials to perform gay marriages if doing so is against their religious beliefs, Justice Minister Irwin Cotler said Tuesday.
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Muslim leaders around the world accused Pope Benedict XVI of dividing religions in comments he made Tuesday about Islam.
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The Spanish government&#39;s plans to legalize same-sex marriage was lambasted by the Roman Catholic Church, the BBC reported Tuesday.
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Thousands of Italians rallied on Saturday for legal rights for unmarried gay and heterosexual couples while Roman Catholics launched a movement against what many of them consider an attack on the "traditional" ...Comment
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Muslim leaders today strongly denounced comments Pope Benedict XVI made this week about Islam, calling them ignorant and divisive.
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VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is becoming increasingly alarmed at what it regards as official anti-Roman Catholic sentiment and secular trends in Europe, as government after government approves measures on abortion, family law, and scientific study that run counter to Catholic teaching.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - Opponents of same-sex marriage within the Liberal party made one final push Tuesday to persuade colleagues to oppose legislation that would allow gays and lesbians to wed.
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African Bishops condemned the Anglican Church&#39;s stance on homosexuality yesterday and said that they would stop sending priests to be trained in countries where same-sex relationships were accepted.
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US Vice President Dick Cheney has come under fire from some conservative groups for publicly outlining his position on gay marriage -- a stance which differs markedly from that of President George W. Bush.
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Archbishop of Canterbury hits out at attempts by church leaders to undermine support for gay rights
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CANADA Same-sex union blessings rejected WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada narrowly overruled clergy and laypeople yesterday to defeat a proposal to give churches the option of blessing same-sex unions. The issue has threatened to split both the Canadian church and the 77-million member worldwide Anglican Communion, a loose federation of national churches around the world ...
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Pakistan's parliament unanimously condemned Pope Benedict XVI on Friday for making what it called "derogatory" comments about Islam and demanded he apologize.
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Spain's Catholic Church attacks government plans to introduce same-sex unions, which it compares to a virus.
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A papal meeting with a prime minister who has legalized gay marriage is predictably tense
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Pope Benedict XVI decried the collapse of marriages, telling tens of thousands of young Catholics Saturday that he was praying that a crisis in traditional family values doesn't become an "irreversible failure."