Tag: same sex-couples

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 18:49 UTC

  Chile's Parliament okays same-sex marriage

  

  Chile's Congress Tuesday passed the bill making it the eighth Latin American country where same-sex marriage is legal, after Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and in several states of Mexico.

• Tuesday, March 16th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  Roman Catholic Church blunt reply: no blessing for same sex unions

  

  The Vatican's orthodoxy office announced on Monday that the Roman Catholic Church could not bless same-sex relationships, in a statement approved by Pope Francis. The statement came from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in response to a question about the church's power to bless same-sex unions.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 15:59 UTC

  No same-sex marriage for now in Cuba's constitutional reform bill

  

  The writers of Cuba's constitutional reform bill have yielded “to popular demand” and stricken out the paragraph establishing marriage between two people of any sex from the proposed Article 68 and which would have opened the door to same-sex marriage, State Council Secretary Homero Acosta announced.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 10:24 UTC

  Open debate in the Vatican: conservative bishops disagree with “gay approach”

  

  Conservative Roman Catholic prelates have vowed to change a controversial Vatican document that held out the possibility of a major shift in the Church's attitude towards homosexuals.