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The journey towards 2015 IDAHOT Vigil has begun. Join us on the track!

After the Easter rites ended, LGBT Christian groups, and Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Waldensian and other denomination communities and parishes all over the world will join together in an extraordinary ecumenical event marking the 2015 International Day against Homo/Bi/Transphobia. The groups have started organizing the Vigils to remember and give acknowledgement to all the victims of violence related to gender identity...

Religion and homosexuality. A study casts some light on how the Catholic Magisterium has an impact on gays and lesbians and how an inclusive pastoral care can make the difference

Interview of Dr. Arianna Petilli by Innocenzo Pontillo (Progetto Gionata), Translated from Italian by  Claudio Abate / Andrew Lyon A few days after the international conference “The ways of love, towards a pastoral care with LGBT people” (Rome. 3 October 2014), which intended to draw the Synod of Bishops’ attention to the question “Which pastoral care for LGBT people?”, a...

Point of view. The Synod seen by a group of Italian Catholic homosexuals

Luca Borghini, Blog The Lobbyst ITALY, 20 October 2014 What does it mean to be homosexual Catholics in 2014? It means recognizing sexual orientation without living faith as an element of obstruction or contradiction. This may sound simple, but it is not. We have behind us a Catholic education often bigoted and hypocritical. We have an idea of homosexuality influenced...

An international conference in Rome will draw up a proposal to welcome LGBT people to be sent to the Synod of the Bishops of the Catholic Church

Two days before the Synod of Bishops on the family, which will take place in the Vatican between 5 and 19 October 2014, various associations and Catholic groups from Europe, Africa and the United States of America will meet in Rome (On 3 October 2014) for the International Conference “The Ways of love, towards a pastoral care for LGBT people”....

From Lisbon to Amsterdam: Vigils and Worship Services to Overcome Homophobia

. Article by Luca Kocci. Published in Il Manifesto Italian newspaper on May 17, 2014. Translated by Peter Luntz Lisbon, Amsterdam, Madrid, Liverpool, Seville, Porto and Barcelona. Prayer vigils against homophobia and transphobia will be held by gay Christian groups in many European cities this evening and tomorrow. These events are nearly all ecumenical initiatives held in Catholic, Waldensian, Methodist,...