Germany’s highest court said Wednesday it has ruled that an American woman whose Jewish father fled Nazi Germany was wrongly denied German citizenship because she was born out of wedlock.
Read moreA self-proclaimed Satanist who participates in “sex magick rituals” lost his second suit challenging Illinois laws prohibiting adultery, fornication and bigamy. The man could not show a “reasonable fear of prosecution” under the adultery and fornication statutes, the Eighth Circuit ruled, and his bigamy claim is barred by Supreme Court precedents.
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A Russian soldier has pulled out all the stops to propose to his girlfriend, with his fellow officers maneuvering 16 tanks to surround the couple in a heart shape.
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Pope Francis declined Wednesday to approve the ordination of married men to address the shortage of priests in the Amazon, sidestepping a fraught issue that has dominated debate in the Catholic Church and involved retired Pope Benedict XVI.
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Immigration advocates expressed cautious optimism Monday after a judge in Maryland blocked federal agents from detaining immigrant spouses for deportation at green card marriage interviews.
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England and Wales have marked a new era in which heterosexual couples can choose to have a civil partnership instead of a marriage.
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Sold by her family as a bride to a Chinese man, Samiya David spent only two months in China. When she returned to Pakistan, the once robust woman was nearly unrecognizable: malnourished, too weak to walk, her speech confused and disjointed.
Read moreFederal prosecutors filed a second superseding indictment against rapper R. Kelly, claiming he bribed a public employee to forge an ID for 15-year-old singer Aaliyah one day before he married her.
Read moreA growing number of South Korean women are banding together to reject rigid patriarchal norms and vowing never to wed, have children or even date and have sex.
Read moreAmerican attitudes toward the practice of what used to be called “living in sin” have shifted, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center on Wednesday.
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On the heels of a landmark call by Amazon region bishops for married men to become priests, Pope Francis on Sunday exhorted Catholics to be open to fresh ways of evangelization, saying the church must “open new roads for the proclamation of the Gospel.”
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Alyse and Elmer Sanchez were thrilled when they survived their green card interview, a crucial step in obtaining lawful status in the United States. The officer agreed that their marriage is legitimate. Moments later, Elmer was in shackles, pending deportation to his native Honduras, leaving her alone with their two little boys.
Read moreOrganizers of a Vatican meeting on the Amazon defended plans to introduce debate on married priests, saying Thursday the proposal represents the “the voice of the local church” and isn’t an official proposal of the pope.
Read moreIn upholding a murder conviction, the New Mexico Supreme Court said Tuesday it has abolished a prohibition against spouses testifying in court cases about what their husband or wife told them in private conversations during their marriage.
Read moreAs sordid Jeffrey Epstein stories pile up in lawsuits against the late sex offender’s estate, a new case filed Tuesday says Epstein forced one victim to marry a noncitizen recruiter in his vast sex-trafficking enterprise.
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