Spain's Liberal Plans Spark Church Counterattack
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Relations between Spain's government and its clerics have turned hostile. Socialists swept to power earlier this year with a pro-gay, feminist agenda and the church is putting up a fight.
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US bishops likely to rebuff calls to row back on support for gay and lesbian members.
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A row over whether the last visible vestiges of the regime of former military dictator General Francisco Franco should be removed continues to rumble on in Spain after the conservative Madrid government rejected left-wing proposals to remove them from the capital.
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MADRID, Spain The Catholic Church is slamming the Spanish government&#39;s plan to legalize gay marriage. The church is furious with the changes planned by the Socialist government, saying legalizing gay marriage
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MADRID, Jan 2  (IPS) - The Spanish Catholic Church "has strayed from  the fundamentals of democracy," said the governing socialist  party (PSOE) Wednesday, in response to harsh criticism from the  Church leadership.
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Jewish campaigners and Poland's president call for the Catholic Church to act against a controversial priest.
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US President George W. Bush's campaign launched a new Spanish television spot as the Republican battles for the Hispanic vote against Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry.
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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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Spain is set to become one of only a  handful of countries to approve therapeutic cloning, despite  opposition from the Catholic Church.
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Spain&#39;s Socialist government will approve a gay marriage measure at an Oct. 1 cabinet meeting, a party leader said Sunday, putting into action a plan that has enraged church leaders in this traditionally Catholic country.
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First the militia fighters thought of hacking the bishop to death with an ax. In the end, they showed pity and shot him Â one of hundreds of executions of Roman Catholic clergy as civil war erupted in Spain.
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Spain&#39;s socialist Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, turned his back on the pro-Americanism of his conservative predecessor yesterday as
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VATICAN CITY - Bitter memories of Spain's Civil War were on center stage here yesterday as the Vatican put 498 slain Spanish priests and nuns from that divisive era on the path to sainthood.
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Spain&#39;s cabinet proposed legislation Friday that would allow same-sex couples to marry and gays to adopt children, pressing ahead with its liberal agenda despite vociferous opposition from the influential Roman Catholic Church.
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Spain's Socialist government has made more effort than its conservative predecessor to improve relations with Gibraltar, the chief minister of the disputed British colony has said in an interview.
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Venezuela's Maria Lionza religious cult offers an indigenous challenge to traditional Catholicism
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The racism row engulfing Spain coach Luis Aragones could escalate after he calls Jose Reyes "a gypsy".