Bishops have been forced to take part in anti-bullying training after a report suggested harassment was endemic within Scotland’s Anglican community.A survey of the clergy of the Scottish Episcopal
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image captionGranville Gibson was jailed in 2016 and 2019 for historical sexual offences
A clergyman claims he was blackballed by the Church of England after reporting sexual abuse by a priest.
John Skinner said he told the Bishop of Durham about Granville Gibson in the early 1980s but was told not to gossip.
The church said Father Skinner s sense of injustice was understandable but a culture of cover-up had ended.
Fr Skinner, who has waived his right to anonymity, told the BBC he was 27 and a curate at St Clare s in Newton Aycliffe when Gibson, the church s priest, indecently assaulted him.
CHURCHES up and down the land have had to operate in ways they could never have imagined in this Covid year, with one Catholic church in Glasgow operating what they are tagging “drive through crib viewings” this Boxing Day. Parish priest Father Jim Lawlor, of the Immaculate Conception Church in Maryhill, said: “Ordinarily at Christmas we would have two and a half thousand through the door in maybe six services but by offering nine I’ll get 450 through the door. “We usually have a children’s service which is almost uncontrollable, it’s massive, so obviously we cannae do that in Covid.
Interfaith declaration seeks forgiveness for harm caused to LGBT people youtube/jayne ozanne
The Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Paul Bayes, in a video to promote the declaration “Declaring the Sanctity of Life and the Dignity of All”
The Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Paul Bayes, in a video to promote the declaration “Declaring the Sanctity of Life and the Dignity of All”
MORE than 370 religious leaders around the world have signed a new declaration that seeks forgiveness for religious teachings that have harmed LGBT people, calls for an end to the criminalisation of people on the grounds of sexual orientation, and urges a ban on so-called “conversion therapy”.
The declaration has been signed by more than 370 religious leaders from 35 countries and all main religions, including archbishop Desmond Tutu. (Getty/William Thomas Cain)
Hundreds of religious leaders around the world have declared that LGBT+ people “are a precious part of creation” and called for a global ban on conversion therapy.
The government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has funded a conference held Wednesday (16 December) to mark the launch of the Global Interfaith Commission on LGBT+ Lives.
The Global Interfaith Commission on LGBT+ Lives, organised by the Ozanne Foundation which works with “religious organisations around the world to eliminate discrimination based on sexuality or gender”, aims to provide a voice for religious leaders to “affirm and celebrate the dignity of all, independent of their sexuality, gender expression and gender identity”.