Gay couples in Norway will be granted the same rights as heterosexuals to marry, adopt and undergo artificial insemination under a new equality law passed Tuesday. Norway’s upper house of parliament ...

Norway's Parliament legalized same-sex marriage June 11 in an 84-41 vote. Support came from the three-party ruling coalition as well as two opposition parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals. The ...

The Church of Norway has voted 88 to 32 to allow gay people to be married in church, following almost two decades of debate on the controversial issue. English-language Norwegian media The Local ...

The vote reflects increasingly liberal attitudes in wider Norwegian society, where civil same-sex marriage has been legal since 2009. OSLO (Reuters) — Norway’s Lutheran Church has voted in favor of ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Lutheran Church voted on Monday in favour of allowing same-sex marriage, becoming the latest of a small but growing number of churches worldwide to do so. Last year the ...

Norway's priests have called on the country's church authorities to draw up a marriage service suitable for gay and lesbian couples. The Norwegian Association of Clergy, which represents 95 percent of ...

A majority in Norway's Stortinget parliament has voted to postpone a change in law to make 18 years the absolute minimum age for marriage. In accordance with current law in the country, 16 and 17-year ...

OSLO, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The Norwegian government said Thursday it has proposed to ban child marriages and introduce an absolute minimum marriage age of 18 years. Currently the marriage age in ...

A bill in the Norwegian Parliament to legalize same-sex marriage has enough votes lined up to pass next month. The measure now has the support of the three-party government coalition and two ...

Norway's Lutheran Church voted on Monday in favor of allowing same-sex marriage, becoming the latest of a small but growing number of churches worldwide to do so. Last year the French Protestant ...

Gay and lesbian couples in Norway will be granted the same rights as heterosexuals to marry, adopt and undergo artificial insemination under an equality law passed Tuesday. Norway's upper house of ...