Sentence examples for church marriages from inspiring English sources

Church marriages in Greece must be arranged through government agencies.

In most cases there is little or no ceremony; a few seek church marriages and have wedding fiestas.

The Holy See maintains the legislation would violate the 1929 Latern Pact and its Concordat, which gave church marriages civil ef fect in Italy.

Attendance and ordinations as well as church marriages and baptisms have fallen dramatically, while birth control, abortion and divorce are stirring growing disaffection and disobedience.

So would he agree to a separation of church marriages and state-sanctioned unions so that everyone has equal legal rights?

There is a well-known positive correlation between the death rates in Victorian England and the proportion of church marriages, but that does not mean getting married in a church carries a higher risk.

Mario Gómez proposed a church marriage to Lilly.

For Mr. Bush, values are defined with references to church, marriage between men and women, and restrictions on abortion.

In church marriage records, they discovered another Jacob Ilger, presumably the father of the Jacob Ilger from Ohio.

"Under no circumstances can this be considered a church marriage," said Mr. Malukhin, who is deputy director of communications for the patriarchate, in a telephone interview.

Legal recognition will mean a new birth certificate and the right to civil (but not church) marriage.Lynne Jones, a Labour MP involved in the issue, says there has been "a sea change" in parliamentary attitudes to transsexuals.