The political union of a woman and a man is a sacrament.But that’s a bit of a stretch, according to the Sacrosanctum Concilium, which maintains the authority of the Catholic Church on marriage.“The church does not forbid marriage, but it does not allow it to be a sacrament, for it recognizes the fact that marriage …
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Matrimony sites are the world’s biggest source of online sex trafficking, according to the United Nations Human Rights Council.The council’s special rapporteur on trafficking, Jana Khatib, said there are approximately 4.5 million online matrimons in India.That number includes all forms of online and offline sex trafficking.Khati has been documenting the problem since she began investigating …
When my husband and I met, we were in our mid-30s and the subject of a long-running court battle.I’d been a single mother of two, raising two kids in our own Brooklyn apartment and caring for my parents, who’d left me to care for my siblings.The court had decided that we should get married, so …