About-face of Spain's Catholic Church on condom use met with disappointment
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The Spanish Catholic Church's about-face on the use of condoms in the fight against AIDS was met with anger by left-wing politicians, commentators and gay rights groups who labeled the church's position as unreasonable and inhuman.
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In a letter to the communion&#39;s leaders dated November 28, the Archbishop of Canterbury said the controversy had led many homosexual people, including those who are celibate, to &quot;feel that there is no good news for them in the church&quot;.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's Roman Catholic Church has been cleared of accusations that its opposition to abortion violated a law banning priests from mixing in politics, but the church said yesterday that it will mount a campaign to change the law it believes is too restrictive.
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The top UN AIDS official in Uganda is denying reports the government is pressuring his agency not to promote the use of condoms. However, heâs concerned that some people may be trying to mix facts about HIV/AIDS with ideology.
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The Spanish Roman Catholic Church denied that it had condoned the use of condoms as a legitimate way of fighting HIV/AIDS.
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The Catholic Church blasted the government's plans to legalize gay marriage, saying Monday it would be like releasing a "virus" into Spanish society.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, DEC. 7, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- The Holy See denounced the discrimination suffered by Catholics in some member-countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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Catholic bishops criticized on Friday Brazil's plan to hand out millions of free condoms in the world's largest Catholic country when its famously bacchanalian Carnival begins next week.
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Pope Benedict XVI stressed family values during a visit Saturday to Spain, where church influence has waned and the government has angered the Vatican with its liberal take on issues including gay marriage.
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Efforts to increase the use of condoms in Madagascar to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS have failed dramatically, largely because of the opposition of church leaders.
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ARSAW, Poland, NOV. 11, 2004 .- A representative of the Catholic Church in Poland reported the undue interference of U.N. organizations trying to impose the liberalization of abortion in his country.
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The Spanish government sparked a furious row yesterday after it emerged that it had drawn up a timetable to halve state funding of the Roman Catholic Church and to ban crucifixes from public buildings.
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MADRID, Spain, SEPT. 20, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- Spanish bishops warn that a plan by the Socialist government to liberalize the divorce law will bring "more divorces and more suffering." A draft bill, which would ...
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Some women's advocacy groups are complaining about a magazine spread in which eight female ministers in the Spanish government &#151; which has vowed to fight sexual discrimination &#151; pose like fashion models in designer clothes.
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Further complicity between UK abortionists and the Spanish abortion clinic, Ginemedex, is revealed in The Sunday Telegraph (UK) today.
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A top Vatican cardinal says condom use to stop the spread of Aids can be justified in some cases.
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One Houston woman&#39;s HIV diagnosis led to a religious epiphany. For another, news of her infection created anxiety about her unborn child.