Changing Attitude Ireland (CAI) marked the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, 17th May, with events in churches around Ireland. On Friday 17th in Newry, Co. Down at 8.30pm, at St Catherine’s church, Dominic St, there was an evening for IDAHOT of reflections and sacred songs, co-hosted by the Newry Rainbow Community and CAI. On Sunday in [...]
Rainbow Ethiopia HIV and Social Support Services Solidarity Statement on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) 2013
, May 17th, 2013 Be
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia May, 17th 2013 Rainbow-Ethiopia joins today the global commemoration of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. As every year, May 17th represent for us a renewed opportunity for calling the international community to struggle against homophobic and transphobic violence in Ethiopia –and, in particular, against all those forms of stigma and [...]
The Telegraph’s inaccurate optimism about gays in the Church
, April 10th, 2013 1 Comment
The Daily Telegraph’s report on the Faith and Order Commission’s report – Men and Women in Marriage is being quoted as evidence that the report marks a change in the stance of the Church. It quotes Giles Fraser: “What this is saying is that you can bless civil partnerships as long as you don’t say [...]
Archbishop of Canterbury offers to meet Peter Tatchell
, March 21st, 2013 6 Comments
The Times reports today that Archbishop Justin Welby has responded to Peter Tatchell’s open letter published yesterday and has offered to meet him. Archbishop Welby sent an email in which he thanked him for his “very thoughful” letter, saying he would like to discuss it “without the mediation of the press” and offering to discuss [...]
The Reformation Project: Advancing the kingdom, advancing equality
, March 8th, 2013 7 Comments
Matthew Vines loves God and happens to be gay. When reality won out during his sophomore year and he finally admitted to himself that he was gay, he was both relieved and crushed — relieved because everything that hadn’t made sense about his life finally did, and because love no longer seemed like an impossibility [...]
RC Bishop of Shrewsbury’s toxic Christmas sermon to attack equal marriage
, December 24th, 2012 8 Comments
Today the Daily Mail reports that the Bishop of Shrewsbury, the Rt Revd Mark Davies will say in his sermon at the midnight mass this evening: “We think of the ideologies of the past century, Communism and Nazism, which in living memory threatened to shape and distort the whole future of humanity. “These inhuman ideologies [...]
Statement against the Second Reading and Passage of the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill 2011
, November 22nd, 2012 1 Comment
Queer Alliance issues this statement on behalf of those we represent to present and voice our concerns against the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill 2011 We like to note that the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is built on one principle – secularism and not religious indoctrination. The contents of the bill [...]
The Bishop of Leicester speaks passionately in a Lords’ debate about the “Treatment of Homosexual Men and Women in the Developing World”
, October 29th, 2012 3 Comments
The House of Lords held a debate on Thursday 25 October on a question posed by Lord Lexden. He asked Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the treatment of homosexual men and women in the developing world. Changing Attitude’s interest in the debate is twofold. Firstly, members of our groups in Nigeria [...]
Chair of Changing Attitude Kenya in hiding after appearing on TV
, September 28th, 2012 1 Comment
This week, Changing Attitude England has become involved with our brothers and sisters in Changing Attitude Kenya following the broadcast of three programmes about MSM’s (men who have sex with men) by a local TV station in Kisumu. Dan Onyango is the Programme Coordinator of NYAWEK in Kisumu on the shore of Lake Victoria and [...]
Neema Metropolitan Community Church holds an LGBTI Empowerment Seminar with Mombasa Anglican Bishop, Julius Kalu
, August 13th, 2012 4 Comments
The Revd Michael Kimindu wears several hats! He is the Director of Other Sheep Africa and an MCC Minister as well as being an Anglican priest and the founder of Changing Attitude Kenya. Michael introduced me to Bishop Julius Kalu of Mombasa when I visited Kenya in March this year. Bishop Kalu was very welcoming [...]
