More than 43,000 marriages registered since the introduction of Law No. 14 of 2021 on Civil Marriage; Over 10,000 in the ...

Vermont became the first state to grant marriage-equivalent rights to same-sex couples through civil unions in 2000. The Vermont Supreme Court's decision in Baker v.

The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department has announced that over 10,000 civil marriage applications were submitted by foreigners to ...

Greece legalized same-sex civil marriage, making it the first Orthodox Christian country to do so, despite opposition from the Greek Church. A cross-party majority of 176 lawmakers out of 300 ...

Those are our civil rights, which civil society must recognize, much as we recognize civil society’s right to define civil marriage as it wills. These rights of the church are worth fighting for.

Greece has become the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from Church officials. A cross-party majority of 176 lawmakers in the 300-seat ...

The 40-page report, “‘My Marriage was Mistake after Mistake’: The Impact of Unregistered Marriages on Women’s and Children’s Rights in Iraq,” documents the impacts of unregistered ...

“It’s very important to us that Israel would be pluralistic,” Lapid said. Civil marriage would not be the first religious pluralism fray that the Jewish Federations has entered.

Marriage in this country is a civil right. It affords couples thousands of civil, financial and social benefits.

The ban on civil marriage has been in force since 1953, five years after Israel was founded. The issue cuts to the heart of Israel's existential dilemma, its difficulties in striving to be both a ...