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Evangelicals are dying in record numbers of COVID-19.

Countless non-fundamentalist churches in the United States, from Catholic to Lutheran and Episcopalian, have embraced social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic and temporarily moved their activities online. But many Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals have been irresponsibly downplaying the dangers of…

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Franklin Graham told to ‘pack up his tents and leave New York.’

New York City has made clear that Franklin Graham is no longer welcome – after the anti-LGBT+ preacher exploited the setting up of a tent hospital during the coronavirus crisis to discriminate against gay people and evangelise. After weeks of scrutiny…

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Ex-Pope vents about gays and treatment of homophobes.

Former Pope Benedict XVI has launched an attack on LGBT+ people for a new book. According to Italian outlet Corriere Della Sera, the 93-year-old Pope emeritus – who became Pope in 2005 but stood aside for Pope Francis in 2013 – gave a rare…

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Students unite in support of teacher fired for just being gay.

High school students have thrown their support behind a beloved gay teacher who was allegedly sacked for violating the Catholic school’s anti-LGBT+ policies. English teacher Jim Zimmerman had worked at Alter High School in Ohio for 23 years, and is a…

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‘Go to Holland’ is a new bizarre homophobic slur in Turkey.

Turkish homophobes have added a strange new slur to their vocabulary: “Yallah Hollandaya”, which translates to “Go to Holland”. The hashtag #YallahHollandaya began trending on Turkish Twitter after Ali Erbaş, the director of the Turkish institute for religious affairs (Diyanet)…

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Gay teacher fired from Catholic school after being outed.

A gay teacher at a Dayton-area Catholic high school has been informed that their contract for next year will not be renewed after someone effectively outed them to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, which oversees the school. Officials with the archdiocese…