Bishop loses gay employment case
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A gay man was unlawfully discriminated against when refused a job by a Church of England bishop, a tribunal rules.
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A judge has thrown out several claims of sex abuse involving a Roman Catholic priest in Northern California, striking a potential blow to hundreds of men and women who allege they were molested while diocese officials looked the other way.
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Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical former preacher at London's Finsbury Park mosque, has lost an appeal against his conviction for inciting racial hatred and soliciting murder.
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An appeals panel in the largest U.S. Lutheran body has ordered a gay pastor removed from his ministry because he is in a sexual relationship with another man, officials said on Thursday.
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Some clergy have criticized what they regarded as the churchâs leftward drift, including the consecration of an openly gay bishop.
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A woman who claims she was abused in a Catholic children's home loses a bid to sue the religious order which ran it.
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An urban ministry that aids the poor and homeless had its official recognition removed by Lutheran church officials in a dispute over an associate pastor who is in a lesbian relationship.
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U.S. Episcopalian bishops on Thursday  expressed regret for having consecrated the group's first  openly gay bishop, but said they needed more time to respond to  a call that they halt such ordinations and stop blessing  same-sex marriages.
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The first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church expressed regret yesterday over the divisions his elevation has caused among Christians, particularly in developing countries, where, he
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PUGHTOWN, Pennsylvania  - A lesbian Methodist  minister was defrocked on Thursday after being found guilty by  an ecclesiastical court of violating a church law that bars its  clergy from being practicing homosexuals.
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The Episcopal Church was told to ban blessings of same-sex unions or risk a reduced role in the denomination.
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A Methodist minister being tried by her church for announcing last year that she lived with a lesbian partner faced a setback when the presiding judge excluded expert testimony from six defense witnesses who believe the church's gay ban violates its own legal principles.
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The United Methodist Church defrocked the Reverend Irene Elizabeth Stroud for violating the denomination&#39;s ban on actively gay clergy.
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Radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada loses his appeal against a Home Office move to deport him.
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The first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church expressed regret over the divisions his elevation has caused among Christians, particularly in developing countries.
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A D.C. judge handed a sharp defeat to members of Shiloh Baptist Church who have sought to oust their pastor, ruling today that an August vote to remove the Rev. Charles Wallace Smith was invalid.
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The head of the US Episcopal Church expresses 'regret' over the appointment of a gay Anglican bishop.