The three wives of the late former MP Cyrus Jirongo made their first public appearance, mourning him at home and expressing ...

The Assam Legislative Assembly on Thursday (November 27) passed the Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill, 2025, making it the second state in the country after Uttarakhand to legislate specifically ...

Something's stirring across Africa. In living rooms from Accra to Abuja, in beer bars in Nairobi, over Eworkple and Aborvi tadi in Anlo Afiadenyigba, people are talking. Not whispering anymore.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday tabled a Bill in the Assembly to ban polygamy, making it an offence with up to seven years of imprisonment for the first offence. It proposes to ...

A man with his wife and two of his brides walk, during mass Easter weddings for 3,000 people, some polygamous, at the International Pentecost Holiness Church in Heidelberg, east of Johannesburg, South ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Tuesday doubled down on the value of monogamous marriage between a man and woman, responding to concerns raised by African bishops about the practice of polygamy in ...

VATICAN CITY, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Happily ever after doesn't require any complicated maths, the Vatican said on Tuesday -- for Catholics, one spouse is enough. In a new decree approved by Pope Leo, the ...

GUWAHATI: Assam government on Tuesday tabled a new bill banning polygamy in the state Assembly on the first day of the Winter Session. The Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill, 2025 prescribed seven ...

Vatican City • A new Vatican doctrinal note describes marriage as an exclusive and “indissoluble union” between one man and one woman, reaffirming the Catholic Church’s criticism of polygamy and ...

A new Vatican document defends marriage as a monogamous relationship amid the growing popularity of polyamory and addresses the pastoral challenges caused by conversion to Catholicism of people in ...

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez delivers his speech during a mass on the sixth of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, May 1, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The foundation of sacramental marriage is the unity of the spouses, a bond so intense and grace-filled that it is exclusive and indissoluble, said a document from the Dicastery ...