Tag: Women and religion
Anglican women renew push for ordination
Advocates of women's ordination were banned from meeting in the St Andrew's Cathedral's square last night. [MORE]
Anglican clergy warn against ordaining female bishops
More than 1,300 clergy have written to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York warning they will leave the Church of England if women are ordained as bishops.[MORE]
'Expelled' nuns chain themselves to Vatican lamp post
Two elderly Italian nuns have chained themselves to a lamp post outside the Vatican, claiming they had been wrongly expelled from their cloistered convent and wanted Pope Benedict to help them return.[MORE]
Saudi scholar questions origins of women's rights
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Outspoken rights advocate Hatoon al-Fassi argues women in the pre-Islamic period enjoyed considerable rights.[MORE]
Australia's first female Anglican bishop to be consecrated
Australia is set to have its first female Anglican bishop. [MORE]
Turkish headscarf reform passes first vote
Turkey's Parliament has approved in a first round of voting an amendment to the constitution permitting women students to wear the Muslim headscarf at university.[MORE]
Female bishops on agenda at Anglican synod
The 14th general synod of the Anglican Church has opened in Canberra.[MORE]
Anglican Minister says female bishops overdue
A Wide Bay Anglican Church Minister in south-east Queensland says she welcomes an internal ruling that could see women bishops accepted by the church.[MORE]
SA church leader backs women bishops
Adelaide's Anglican Archbishop Jeffrey Driver says the church will be sensitive to those who oppose the ordination of women as diocesan bishops.[MORE]
Howard making it harder for Muslim women to speak out: academic
A Sydney academic has accused Prime Minister John Howard of stifling the voice of Australian Muslim women by binding together the language of women's rights and an anti-Muslim agenda. [MORE]
Bishop hopes for female replacement
The Anglican Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn does not think people in his diocese will be surprised that he hopes he is succeeded by a woman.[MORE]
Women arrested for demanding right to run with men
A group of female rights activists in Pakistan were arrested after attempting to lead a rally demanding women the right to run in marathons alongside men. [MORE]
