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The naturalization process for foreign same-sex partners in Israel will be the same as that of their heterosexual counterparts, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit reported Thursday to the High Court of Justice.
According to Mandelblit's guidelines, couples of the same sex who present foreign marriage documents will be able to undergo the same procedure to receive citizenship for the foreign partner as do heterosexual couples.
Justin Welby
Archbishop of Canterbury
There have been lots of wonderful answers to prayer over many years, including recently. One I remember was as a 15-year-old sitting in chapel with the prospect of three frightening tests that day, for which I had done no preparation, and praying that if I got through it then I would do anything for God. I did get through and did nothing about it, except forget about God.
Data published today has revealed that one in 10 adoptions in England is by a same-sex couple.
The data comes from the Department for Education, which published an update on children in care and fostering.
The stats reveal that of the 4,690 children adopted in the year ending March 31, 450 were adopted by same-sex couples.
200 children were adopted by same-sex couples in civil partnerships, 70 children were adopted by married same-sex couples, and a further 180 were adopted by same-sex couples who are unmarried.
Bills granting same-sex couples the right to adopt a child and access to surrogacy have passed South Australia's Legislative Council, with amendments to be sent to the Lower House.
It has been a historic week with South Australian lawmakers also approving bills to create a same-sex relationships register and removing discrimination against transgender and intersex people.
Today, the adoption and surrogacy bills easily passed the Upper House after lengthy conscience-vote debates.
Last week the reproductive rights charity British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) made headlines with their campaign to make emergency contraception more affordable and easily available.
One of the cornerstones of their new campaign is to abolish the requirement that women looking to purchase the morning after pill at a chemists must first have a consultation with a pharmacist, a state of affairs BPAS think is "unnecessary and embarrassing".
New YouGov research reveals that the public is evenly split on the campaign’s aim to abolish such consultations. Just over four in ten people (42%) believe they should be abolished, while the same proportion (42%) say they should be kept.
Islamic leaders in Australia are encouraging parents to support religious cartoons as alternatives to Peppa Pig.
Sheik Shady Alsuleiman, the controversial president of the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC), has urged followers to favour programs embracing and illustrating Islamic “principles, ethics and values”.
Almost 15 million people in Britain (30%) have attended a humanist ceremony and close to seven million (14%) want a humanist funeral for themselves when they die, suggesting that humanist ceremonies are more popular than ever before. These new findings from YouGov come as the British Humanist Association (BHA) launches a new animation voiced by Stephen Fry bringing to life what non-religious ceremonies can mean to people.
Almost a third of people in Britain have attended a humanist ceremony.
The new finding from YouGov comes as the British Humanist Association says the number of people opting for the ceremonies is on the increase, saying the non-religious are the single largest belief group in Britain.
The latest figures show almost 15 million Britons have attended a humanist ceremony, while close to seven million now say they would like a humanist funeral.
Divorce and family breakdown have led to an epidemic of loneliness, a charity report said yesterday.
It found that one in three people who admit to suffering from loneliness have been through divorce or separation – as many as those who are alone because of disability or ill health.
It also found loneliness is not confined to older people, warning that women who have babies at a young age risk spending much of their time on their own.
The 14-day time limit on growing human embryos in the laboratory will not be extended, the head of the fertility regulator has said.
Sally Cheshire, chairwoman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, dismissed an increasingly vocal campaign by some scientists for the freedom to carry out experiments on embryos at a stage when their bodies are beginning to form.