The sunnah of monogamy
Source: The Sun The notion that “African men are polygamous in nature” is an excuse often used to justify the infidelity of menfolk in marriage in African societies. That […]
Burkina Faso: ‘We’re raising our daughter as both Christian and Muslim’
Source: BBC Muslim-majority Burkina Faso has been hit by a wave of violence by militant Islamists in recent years. Christmas Eve saw more than 30 people, mostly women, killed in […]
Bangladesh to remove the word ‘virgin’ from Muslim marriage certificates
Source: The Guardian The word “virgin” must be removed from Muslim marriage certificates in Bangladesh, the country’s top court has said, a landmark verdict after campaigners challenged the “humiliating and discriminatory” […]
What the Criminalization of Instant Divorce Means for India’s Muslims
Source: The Atlantic BY Danish Raza In January 2016, Afreen Rehman, a resident of Jaipur, in northwest India, was recovering from a road accident when her husband sent a letter to her […]
Video: A Crumbling Tradition the benefits and blessings of Marrying while Young
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Mormons making wedding rule change to be more inclusive
Source: Associated Press BY BRADY McCOMBS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints changed wedding rules Monday in hopes of preventing family members who […]
India’s Congress to scrap law punishing Muslim men for instant divorce if voted back to power
Source: Reuters By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s main opposition Congress party said on Thursday it would scrap a decree passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s […]
Cuban evangelicals push back against gay marriage
Source: Associated Press By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ HAVANA (AP) — A Cuban government push to legalize gay marriage has set off an unprecedented reaction from the island’s rapidly growing evangelical churches, […]
Threatened with an end to Shariah divorce, Egypt’s imams work to save marriages
Source: Religion News Service By Jacob Wirtschafter and Amr El-Tohamy CAIRO (RNS) – Egypt’s skyrocketing divorce rate has spurred a debate among Muslim religious leaders and government officials about how […]
A Quiet Revolution: More Women Seek Divorces in Conservative West Africa
Source: The New York Times By Dionne Searcey MARADI, Niger — He didn’t hit her. He didn’t yell. He didn’t cheat, as far as she knows. It was just that, […]
Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs
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Cuba eliminates gay marriage language from new constitution
Source: Associated Press By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s government said Tuesday that language promoting the legalization of gay marriage will be removed from the draft […]
The Divorce Rate Is Dropping. That May Not Actually Be Good News
Source: Time By BELINDA LUSCOMBE Luscombe is an editor-at-large at TIME. Have you heard that statistic that half of all marriages will end in divorce? It’s wrong. Even if that […]
Taiwanese reject legalizing same-sex unions in referendum
Source: Associated Press By RALPH JENNINGS TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Voters in Taiwan passed a referendum asking that marriage be restricted to one man and one woman, a setback to […]
A top bridal magazine refused to feature gay couples. Now it’s going out of business.
Source: The Washington Post By Lindsey Bever An Australian bridal magazine is shutting down after standing by a controversial decision not to feature same-sex couples. The founders of White magazine said in […]
100 Women: The woman who decides if men can take a second wife
Source: BBC News By Heather Chen BBC News, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia Image copyrightJOSHUA PAUL FOR THE BBC Islamic law, also known as Sharia, is often associated by critics with […]
Bermuda’s government fights against same-sex marriage in Court of Appeal
Source: CNN By Esan Swan Linda Bogle-Mienzer is one of the few Bermudians to have married someone of the same sex. Story highlights Same-sex marriage was legalized in Bermuda, then […]
In rare campaign for Cuba, churches advocate against gay marriage
Source: Reuters BY Nelson Acosta, Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban evangelical churches are collecting signatures to petition against a proposed constitutional amendment that would open the door to gay marriage, […]
Women tie the knot in Austria’s first same-sex marriage
Source: Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Two women have tied the knot in Austria’s first same-sex marriage, months after the country’s Constitutional Court ruled to legalize it. Vienna’s city […]
Celebrity Jewish-Arab wedding stirs mixed feelings in Israel
Source: Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A surprise celebrity wedding bridging Israel’s Jewish-Muslim divide drew mixed public reaction on Thursday in a country where such inter-marriage is extremely rare. Wednesday’s nuptials […]
