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Senior faith leaders call for global decriminalisation of LGBT+ people

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Mary McAleese, more than 60 rabbis, and senior Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists.The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office had been due to host the conference at its Whitehall headquarters before the event was forced online by London’s move into tier 3 Covid restrictions.

James Duddridge, the minister for Africa, will address the meeting.Westminster Abbey is hosting a private celebration after the event, led by the deans of Westminster and St Paul’s cathedral.The declaration calls for an end to the criminalisation of LGBT+ people and to “conversion therapy” – attempts to change, suppress or erase a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.It also acknowledges that “certain religious teachings have often,.

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