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Spain saw its marriage rate fall by nearly half in the first year of the Wuhan pandemic, a faster fall than many other EU nations.

Seven foreign nationals and four American citizens have been charged with operating a massive marriage fraud agency in Los Angeles, California, that sought green cards for more than 400 illegal aliens, federal prosecutors allege.

Chinese Communist Party authorities “punished” 11 party officials and personnel in southern China’s Guangxi autonomous region in recent days for failing to crack down on a local couple who allegedly gave birth to 15 children over a 21-year period, the state-run Global Times reported Monday.

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je awarded at least one local couple a cash prize of $1,753 on Monday for agreeing to marry by the end of the year as part of a Taiwanese government campaign to boost the nation’s flagging birth rate, the Taipei Times reported on Tuesday.

Only 5.9 million couples in China applied for new marriage licenses in the first three quarters of 2021, marking a 13-year low for such a figure, the Financial Times reported this week.

China on Wednesday published a revised statistical yearbook covering 2000 to 2010 that purportedly “found” 12 million children undercounted in previous reports.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is not backing down amid fierce backlash from legacy media, after he blasted the “left-wing attack on manhood” and urged men to embrace and assume the responsibilities of their gender role in a series of recent remarks.

GENEVA (AP) – Voters in Switzerland will decide Sunday whether to allow same-sex marriages in the rich Alpine country, one of the few in Western Europe where gay and lesbian couples do not already have the right to wed.

Pope Francis urged young people in Slovakia Tuesday to have the courage to dream of marriage and a family.

A Florida State football player chose the conclusion of one of the most embarrassing losses in college football history as the moment to propose to his girlfriend on Saturday. The moment went down Saturday night at Doak Walker Stadium in

Just one in five (21.1 per cent) of traditional, opposite-sex marriages in 2018 were religious ceremonies, the lowest on record, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has criticised the Church of England for its moral decay after a bishop failed to defend the institution of marriage by expressing more concern over Matt Hancock breaching social distancing rules than having had an affair that destroyed two families.

French prosecutors have indicted a 29-year-old Algerian migrant on suspicion of raping a woman and attempting to force her into marriage.

Pope Francis has urged Christians to pray during the month of June for young men and women preparing for marriage, offering an alternative, Christian message to LGBT Pride events.

A survey from Arizona Christian University found Millennials are rejecting faith in God and looking to government to provide a better life.

Swedish novelist Jonas Gardell has claimed that his homosexuality is a “gift from God” in response to remarks from a pastor critical of same-sex marriage and gender identity ideology.

The Liberal Party will investigate the possibility of banning marriage between cousins in Sweden to tackle honour culture.

A New York parent who wishes to marry their own adult child filed a lawsuit to overturn the incestuous practice, saying the matter should be up to the “individual.”

The Swedish government has been accused of allowing exceptions in a new bill that is aimed at banning the recognition of polygamous marriages carried out overseas.

A spokesman for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex has admitted that the couple’s claim that they were married in secret before the public wedding was not true.

Nearly 60 percent of couples in China’s central city of Wuhan called off their planned divorces after being forced to rethink their separations during a new, state-mandated “cooling off” period, the Chinese state-run Global Times claimed on Thursday.

The number of marriages in South Korea plummeted to an all-time low in 2020 owing to changing attitudes toward marriage among younger generations and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday.

ROME — The European Parliament (EP) has attacked Poland over its “Regional Charters of Family Rights,” asserting that they represent “discrimination and attacks against the LGBTIQ community.”

A Chinese lawmaker proposed during the annual “Two Sessions” this weekend that the Communist Party implement a mandatory college course on dating, marriage, and parenting.

Norway saw a 19% drop in marriages in 2020 compared to the previous year, which had already seen the lowest figure since 1927.

A Chinese lawmaker is preparing to introduce a bill at the opening of this week’s “Two Sessions,” where the Communist Party meets to draft and pass laws, requiring couples to take government-run marriage “training” classes before their weddings.

The director of a Chinese social development think tank recently proposed unmarried Chinese women over the age of 27 — known as “leftover” women or sheng nu in China — should embrace the surplus of single men in rural China to find a husband, the South China Morning Post reported Tuesday.

A Texas couple married for more than 60 years defeated the coronavirus together — all while sharing the same hospital bedroom.

A 36-year-old French woman claims that her abusive migrant husband used her in an attempt to obtain French citizenship so he could abandon her and her children and bring his African wife and family to France.

The U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) has announced the kickoff of National Marriage Week Sunday in “defense of marriage as a lifelong union of one man and one woman.”

Pope Francis has proclaimed 2021 as a year dedicated to the family, urging greater study of the “ideal of conjugal and family love.”

A pregnant woman detained in north India’s Uttar Pradesh last week under the state’s “love jihad” law said Tuesday she received injections from authorities while in detention that she believes induced a miscarriage.

Police in the northern Indian town of Kushinagar halted a marriage ceremony between two Muslims last week and arrested the groom after local residents reported the union to authorities, falsely claiming that the bride was once Hindu, Indian news site The Wire reported on Sunday.

Police in northern India have arrested ten men for allegedly forcing women to change their religion after marriage, officials in Uttar Pradesh state said Monday.

India’s most populous state passed a law on Tuesday establishing a prison term of up to 10 years for anyone found guilty of using marriage to force someone to change religions.

President Donald Trump spiked his poll ratings among married women to a 13-point advantage — but Joe Biden won the votes of unmarried women by 25 points.