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August 28, 2014

Catholic Church must welcome ‘unconventional couples,’ says top Italian bishop

Pope Francis

ROME - The Catholic Church should make “unconventional couples” feel at home instead of making them targets of “de facto discrimination,” the leader of the Italian Bishops Conference and an ally of Pope Francis said this week.

Published in Vatican
January 16, 2013

Vatican laments European Court denial of conscientious objection right

Nadia Eweida, 60, a Coptic Christian, poses for a photograph in the Temple Church in London Jan. 15. Eweida, an employee who was asked by British Airways to remove a cross from around her neck, has won a religious discrimination case at Europe's human ri ghts' court, but three other claimants lost similar cases.

Updated 01/16/13

VATICAN CITY - While applauding the European Court of Human Rights' recognition of the right of a British airline employee to wear a cross on her uniform, the Vatican lamented the court's denial of the full right of conscientious objection in other cases claiming religious discrimination in the United Kingdom.

Published in International
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