By: Mattersindia Reporter Bhopal: The Catholic Church has endorsed an Indian Supreme Court (SC) order that invalidated Church courts or ecclesiastic tribunals annulling marriage of a Catholic couple here on January 30. The president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) Cardinal Oswald Gracias said, “there is noContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to give legal sanctity to divorce decrees granted by ecclesiastical tribunals, popularly known as church courts. This means anyone remarrying after such a divorce decree would be committing the offence of bigamy. A bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and JusticeContinue Reading
Christian couples’ wait for two years for seeking divorce by mutual consent may soon end as a nearly 150-year-old law is set to be amended to lower the requisite separation period to one year following persistent demand from the community. The government has put the Divorce (Amendment) Bill, 2016 inContinue Reading
With most states on board, the Union law ministry has cleared a proposal to amend a 147-year-old legal provision that compels Christian couples to wait for at least two years for divorce. The period of separation is one year for other religions. The ministry has decided to reduce the waitingContinue Reading
New Delhi — Nudged by the Supreme Court, the government has agreed to consider amending the legal provision that compels Christian couples to wait for at least two years for divorce, whereas this period of separation is one year for other religions. The apex court also urged the government toContinue Reading