A Catholic priest in São Paulo state, Brazil was excommunicated after resigning from his duties to protest against the church's anti-gay stance.

‘Father Roberto Francisco Daniel can no longer celebrate the divine rite because he has been excommunicated,’ read a statement from the Bauru diocese in Sao Paulo state.

The four men whose complaints about Cardinal Keith O’Brien's sexual misconduct lead to his resignation deny allegations they were part of a ‘gay lobby’ plotting ‘revenge’ for the cleric’s anti-gay stance.

In a report published today (24 March) by the Observer the four rejected reports quoting church sources who alleged the cardinal had been forced to quit by a ‘cabal of gay priests’ angry at his anti gay rants.

Gay rights and advocacy are ‘total abomination’ as ‘such practice’ is completely ‘unbiblical’ and ‘outlandish to African tradition’, according to leading Liberian cleric Ben Cooper.

Reverend Cooper told the portal AllAfrica that LGBT rights group ‘threaten’ to ‘undermine’ the existence of humanity as well as the ‘fabric’ of Liberian society.

The Roman Catholic Church has launched a last minute attack against the UK government’s plans to legalize gay marriage, 10 days before the vote.

In a letter on behalf of The Catholic Bishops' Conference, Archbishop of Southwark, the Most Rev Peter Smith, the second most senior active Catholic cleric in England and Wales, told priests: ‘The time to act is now’ against gay marriage.

Organizers of masses for gay Catholics have denied the Archbishop of Westminster's decision to scrap the services in Soho, London, was motivated by homophobia.

The so-called Soho Masses at the Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Warwick Street were started six years ago to 'welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Catholics, their parents, friends and families.'

Pakistan’s National College of Arts has closed its own academic journal following threats from Islamists after it published a series of paintings featuring homoerotic scenes of Islamic clerics and young men.

The Lahore based college pulled all copies of the journal from shelves and dissolved its editorial board following a backlash against the paintings, which may yet result in blasphemy charges being brought against college staff, the artist and others involved in the publication of the journal.

A Jewish Rabbi has joined an extremist Christian preacher in blaming Hurricane Sandy on gays, calling devastation of New York 'divine justice' for the city's same-sex marriage laws.

Rabbi Noson Leiter of Torah Jews for Decency compared the superstorm which swept across the US eastern coast this week to a biblical disaster.

'We believe that the great flood at the time of Noah...[was] triggered by the recognition of same-gender marriages,' the cleric said, reported Right Wing Watch.

A documentary about a gay Muslim will no longer be shown at a film festival after a Kyrgyzstan court decision.

The film, ‘I am Gay and Muslim’, was due to be shown at the Bir Duino (One World) Human Rights film festival in the country’s capital Bishkek, today (28 September).

Mufti Rakhmatilla Egemberdiev, Kyrgyzstan chief cleric, said the film presented Islam ‘in a bad form, by using examples of people who have nothing to do with the religion.’

The Archbishop of Westminster has attacked a Catholic marriage counseling service after it helped same-sex couples.

Catholic Marriage Care was criticized for giving marriage preparation services to gay couples looking to take part in civil partnerships in Britain.

It comes as Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the UK’s most senior Catholic cleric, continues his battle against plans for full marriage equality in the country.

The Catholic Archbishop of Yaoundé stated last week that he believes homosexuality is opposed to the ideal of human reproduction and is a danger to the family unit, 'an affront to the family, enemy of women and creation.'

He argued that the Catholic Church preaches the virtues of tolerance towards gay people, paedophiles, bestiality and other perversions, which he lumps together.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has told an LGBT Downing Street reception that the churches are on the wrong side of the argument on gay marriage.

The reception yesterday evening (24 July), the hottest day of the British summer so far, was held in the garden of Number 10 Downing Street.

Claims that Al-Qaeda suicide bombers were allowed to have anal sex in order to hide explosives in their rectums is part of a smear campaign against Wahhabi Muslims, experts reveal.

Researcher Raymond Ibrahim at right-wing think tank the Gatestone Institute wrote that it is common practice for jihadists to conceal bombs in their anus in order to 'execute martyrdom operations'.

Ibrahim, a fellow at the conservative David Horowitz Freedom Center, says news footage from Arabic channel Fadak TV in 2010 was evidence of this bizarre form of terrorism.