'No church debate' over wedding
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The Church of England has rejected a call for an emergency debate on Prince Charles' wedding.
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The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a dispute over gay marriages, rejecting a challenge to the nation's only law sanctioning such unions.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada&#39;s top court says Ottawa has the authority to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples, but religious officials cannot be forced to perform unions against their beliefs.
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Refusing to wade into the debate over gay marriage in Massachusetts, the US Supreme Court yesterday rejected a bid to overturn a landmark court ruling legalizing gay marriage in the Bay State.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has held last-ditch talks to end the gay clergy row threatening the worldwide Anglican church.
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The Episcopal Church is not splintering, despite a decision by several Virginia parishes to leave and join Anglican conservatives, the head of the church said Monday.
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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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TORONTO (CP) - An Anglican Church commission urging Canadian dioceses to stop blessing same-sex relationships isn't binding and won't likely have an immediate impact on the practices of individual parishes, says the church's Canadian primate.
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The US Supreme Court on Monday chose not to hear a challenge on same-sex marriage from Massachusetts, the only state where it&#39;s legal.
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The archbishop of Canterbury said Friday he never proposed the creation of a parallel Islamic legal system in Britain, as anger continued to simmer over statements he made seen as backing Islamic law.
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HARTFORD -- The US Supreme Courtâs refusal Monday to consider a challenge to state authority over gay marriages could boost the chances for same-sex marriage or civil union legislation in Connecticut, one key lawmaker said.
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The Church of England's assembly on Wednesday affirmed existing teaching that homosexuality is no bar to full participation in the church but avoided the fractious debate within the Anglican Communion about accepting gay sexual relationships.
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"There's not going to be a wedding," the groom's mother said. She laughed. Then she stopped laughing.
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Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola has rejected the U.S. Episcopal Church's latest efforts to calm tensions over the consecration of gay bishops &#151; an issue threatening to split the global Anglican-Episcopalian family.
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The Vatican is worried its opposition to abortion, embryonic stem cell research and gay marriage could one day land it before an international court of justice, a senior Vatican official said in an interview published Wednesday.
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In a U.S. election campaign where presidential candidates from both major parties have talked openly about their Christian faith, some non-Christians feel shut out or turned off.
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BENONI, South Africa  - The spiritual leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans said on Tuesday a split over gay clergy would not distract the church from battling AIDS, poverty and other problems in the developing world.