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Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas signed into law a bill allowing his state’s clergy to refuse to officiate marriage ceremonies that violate their religious beliefs. Abbott said it is vital that religious leaders are “secure in knowing that religious freedom is beyond government’s reach.”
The College has maintained that a significant body of research has demonstrated that “same-sex marriage deliberately deprives the child of a mother or a father, and is therefore harmful.”
Following in a wave of destruction, Israeli police vandalized another church in the Palestinian Ikrit village.
A large crowd of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church gathered to celerbate an open-air feast of St. Onuphrius the Great on the territory of a church seized by the schismatic Kievan Patriarchate.
Representatives of the so-called Kievan Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church announced in June their intentions to hold a council of unification on September 14.