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CYPRUS TO HOLD FIRST GAY PRIDE FESTIVAL
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_CYPRUS_GAY_PRIDE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-05-15-14-39-10NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- Cyprus' Orthodox Christian Church lashed out against homosexuality Thursday after activists announced the country's first gay pride festival.
The Holy Synod, the Church's highest decision-making body, said it looks upon efforts to give homosexuality social and legal acceptance with "concern and grief."
"The Church and science consider homosexuality to be the human being's fall from grace and an illness and not a natural way of life or choice," the Holy Synod said in a statement.
It said although the Church condemns homosexuality, it loves and supports the "fallen" and prays that they seek God's mercy.
