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By Georgia Wilkins, The Age (Australia), 29 Jun 2012, page 5 Like four in 10 same-sex couples, James Nevein, 49, and David Witte, 50, identify themselves as Christians. They are part of a statistic that strikes at the heart of the debate around same-sex marriage, and one that many hope will validate them in the eyes of the church.At the...

By Karl S. Shelly*, The Goshen News (USA), 23 Jun 2012, page 16 We are living in days when the tide of U.S. history is turning in favor of gay and lesbian equality. As a follower of Jesus and ordained Christian pastor, I respond to these changes with celebration and thanksgiving. It is a Gospel event when those treated as...

‘God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean’, Acts 10:28. In front of such much gratuitous violence against the homosexuals, and considering the ear-piercing silence of the world; as Christians coming from different confessions and progress of faith, we believe that it is in our duty to give some concrete answer, obviously, we won’t keep...

by Emanuele Macca (Milan, Italy), translated by Mario Gerada It is a reflection on the testimony of three mothers whose three gay boys lived and died in the United States and Italy (Mary Griffith, Judy Shepard and Ursula Barzaghi). Starting from the story of Mary Griffith (also represented in the movie “Prayers for Bobby” – www.prayersforbobby.com) this article offers a...

Approved by the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Italy on 14th May 2011 with resolution 2011/7, translated from the Italian by Janet Lisa Dubbini The CELI (the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Italy) adopts a position on the blessing of hetero and homosexual committed relationships. Listening to the Word of God and observing the social changes, it performs its...