Spain's Catholic Church Backs Condoms
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The Catholic Church in Spain backtracked from a leading bishop's groundbreaking statement in support of condom use to fight the spread of AIDS, saying instead the church still believes artificial contraception is immoral.
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The Spanish government is set to approve a controversial draft law legalising gay marriages.
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Pope Benedict XVI praised marriage between a man and a woman as part of God&#039;s &quot;loving plan,&quot; defending the traditional family Sunday at a Mass in Spain attended by hundreds of thousands.
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The Spanish government approved a bill to legalize homosexual marriages, which will make it only the third country in Europe to condone same sex marriages, cabinet spokeswoman Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said.
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The head of the Catholic church in Mozambique said on Wednesday he believed some European-made condoms were deliberately tainted with the HIV/AIDS virus to kill African people.
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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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A Spanish bill allowing gay marriage is expected to go to parliament has the Catholic Church up in arms. One bishop said it was like unleashing a virus.
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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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The Vatican's office for health care has concluded a study on the use of condoms in the fight against AIDS, and a long-awaited report on it is now being examined by the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog, a senior cardinal said Tuesday.
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The Spanish government approved a bill to legalise homosexual marriages, which will make it only the third country in Europe to condone same sex marriages.
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Despite fierce opposition from the Catholic Church, Spain&#39;s leaders introduced legislation Friday that would give the country&#39;s same-sex couples the same rights to marry and adopt children as heterosexual couples.
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The Roman Catholic Church in Spain has condemned plans by the socialist Government to legalise marriages between same-sex couples.
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The outburst came when he met the archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela, and a group of Spanish bishops who were visiting the Vatican following a row over the use of condoms in tackling the Aids ...
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A controversial law that would give gay  and lesbian couples the same right to marry, divorce and adopt  children as heterosexuals was approved by Spain's Socialist  government Friday.
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MADRID Spainâs cabinet proposed legislation Friday allowing same-sex marriages and for homosexuals to adopt children, pressing ahead with its liberal agenda despite vociferous opposition from the influential Roman Catholic Church.
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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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The Archdiocese of Valencia, Spain, said last week more than a million people in the province of Valencia alone have signed a petition to support religion classes in public schools.