CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's prime minister rushed gay marriage into law on Friday by gaining a final signature on a bill hours after it was overwhelming endorsed by Parliament and as the ...

Getting ordained online to officiate a wedding might be easy, but a county clerk in North Carolina allegedly won’t recognize it. Universal Life Church Ministries said in a federal lawsuit filed Monday ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Bucks County judge has upheld the legality of a marriage performed by a Universal Life Church minister, the latest ruling on whether marriages performed by clergy without a ...

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau and Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau speak at the 2017 Juno Awards at Canadian Tire Centre on April 2, 2017 in Ottawa, Canada.George Pimentel/Getty Images Canadian Prime ...

WASHINGTON -- A group of Washington-area ministers called for a referendum on whether the District of Columbia should legally recognize gay marriages from other states. The D.C. Council recently voted ...

If the people of Australia vote to redefine marriage in the country, the consequences will be dire, warned former Prime Minister Tony Abbott. "The idea that you can just change the definition of ...

The Minister of Marriage in the Eastern and Latin Churches." The "conventional wisdom" is that in the Latin Church, the couple are the ministers of marriage and that in the Eastern Churches (because ...

The young woman timidly entered the minister’s study and asked for a few minutes of his time to talk about her problems with her college studies. The conversation began slowly, and her nervousness was ...