The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, built an isolated society centered on obedience and ...

His polygamy masked a darker world of surveillance, jealousy and lethal punishment and those who crossed him faced arrest, ...

The Vatican has issued a new decree, approved by Pope Leo, reaffirming its stance that Catholics should commit to one spouse for life. The Holy See’s top doctrinal office told the world’s 1.4 billion ...

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 first offence. With permission from ...

An anti-polygamy Bill tabled by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the Assam Assembly on Tuesday prescribes imprisonment and heavy fines for people entering into, or hiding, a second marriage while ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Assam cabinet on Sunday evening approved the Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill, 2025, aimed at prohibiting and eliminating the practice of polygamy and polygamous marriages across the state, ...

Sarma said the proposed law will make polygamy a punishable offence. Leader of Opposition in the Assam Assembly and top Congress leader Debabrata Saikia on Monday criticised the BJP-led state ...

Assam is set to criminalise polygamy, with the state cabinet approving a Bill on Sunday that could send offenders to prison for up to seven years. Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the ...

Assam's cabinet has approved a bill to prohibit polygamy, with penalties of up to seven years rigorous imprisonment, though exemptions apply to tribal communities and certain Sixth Schedule areas. The ...