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Italy IDAHOBIT 2020. Will you pray with us for the overcoming of homophobia, transphobia and all types of discrimination?

Even this year, as in the past years since 2007, we will be organising a series of prayer vigils and worship services in Christian communities in different cities to remember the victims of homophobia and transphobia. These prayer meetings are to be held on the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) observed annually on...

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May 2020. Continuing to watch and pray together for the overcoming of homophobia and transphobia. Because “we are all one in Christ”

. Article by Innocenzo Pontillo published in the Catholic weekly Adista Segni Nuovi n°8 of 29 February 2020, page 9, translation by Andrea D. “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.“(Gal 3:28). These words of Paul, chosen in a highly...

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IDAHOBIT Vigils 2020: the new verse will be Galatians 3,28

Like every year, the verse to headline Vigils on International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and transphobia (IDAHOBIT) 2020 was voted online. The verse that received the most votes was taken from the letter of St Paul to the Galatians (Gal 3, 28): “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you...

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Christian Parents with homosexual children in Italy share their experience

Christian parents with homosexual children in Italy share their experience and talk about what happened in the family when their children came out. Turn English subtitles on in the video. What happens in a Christian family when a child comes out as homosexual? We asked some catholic parents to talk about it because “the truth will set you free”. This...

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From “Tenda di Gionata” a booklet with experiences from Parents which has helped us understand the pastoral needs of our LGBT children.

Article published in Noi famiglia & vita, monthly supplement of Avvenire, newspaper of the Italian Episcopal Conference, 26 May 2019, pp.36-37 Here we publish excerpts from the preface that don Gian Luca Carrega* (priest from Turin, Italy, who under the mandate of Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia deals with the pastoral care of LGBT people) wrote in the booklet (in Italian) “Genitori...