WRITER Terry Pratchett said that watching a man being helped to die had reaffirmed his support for assisted suicide, while anti-euthanasia groups criticised the televised death as propaganda that could encourage copycat suicides.

A Christian denomination that supports same-sex unions is expected to decide today whether to perform marriage ceremonies for gay couples.

AMERICA’S Episcopal Church has elected Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as the presiding bishop of the denomination, making her the first woman to lead any church in the global Anglican Communion.

One of the leading contenders to become the next Archbishop of Canterbury has denounced the US-led military action in Afghanistan as ‘‘tainted’’ and ‘‘an embarrassment’’, it was reported today.