There is “no official definition” of a woman according to the Church of England. A senior Bishop said that the meaning of the word woman was previously “thought to be self-evident” but “additional care” was now needed. Rt Rev Robert Innes made the pathetic comments in a written reply to a question submitted to General Synod as institutions grapple with the ongoing debate surrounding trans... 

Rival factions within the Methodist church are contemplating a divorce, weighing plans to split in half due to an intractable dispute over its current ban on gay marriage and LGBT clergy. The plan will be considered at the church’s major yearly conference in Minneapolis, set for May, which if approved would rupture the denomination into traditionalist and ‘progressive’ camps. The former branch... 

Islam must be taught in all German schools to help “immunize” pupils from radical leanings, Bavarian bishop of the Lutheran Church argues, calling on Muslim organizations to take responsibility for religious education. Introduction of “extensive Islam classes” in all German schools would best safeguard young Muslims from “fundamentalists’ temptation” towards them, Head of the Evangelical... 

Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, one of Poland’s most prominent religious figures, is reported to have told an Italian Catholic news web site that the Holocaust was a “Jewish invention”. The bishop says his remarks were “taken out of context” however. “The Holocaust, as such, is a Jewish invention [invenzione ebraica]. We could just as well establish a day of...