A new report based on a recent national US survey has found that a clear majority of Americans favour allowing gay and lesbian couples to enter into legal civil unions.

The religion and society think-tank Ekklesia is proposing a new legal framework which can accommodate same-sex marriage ceremonies carried out by religious bodies.

Gay couples can lay equal claim to their married heterosexual counterparts when bringing up children in stable relationships, according to the head of a Catholic charity that supports marriage.

Sweden's parliament has backed a proposal to introduce gender-neutral marriage, becoming the fifth European country to do so. The Church of Sweden will bless same-sex unions but not call them marriage.

As churches in the UK celebrate National Marriage week, a 71 year old Anglican Priest has announced that he is to finally tie the knot after a 53 year engagement.

A London borough has won its appeal against a ruling that it unlawfully discriminated against a Christian registrar who refused to perform same-sex civil partnerships.

A paper published today suggests that under the laws of the Church of England clergy have far greater liberty in relationship to services following civil partnerships than has previously been thought.

A marriage registrar has vowed to make a legal challenge to the acceptance of civil partnership ceremonies, claiming that she objects to them on religious grounds and should therefore be exempt from having to perform them.

The heads of a university closely aligned to the Church of England plan to ban civil partnership ceremonies on campus.