Polygamy

FEW South Sudanese see a link between their country's horrific civil war and polygamy. Instead they blame greedy politicians or the tribe next door. Fair enough: corruption, weak institutions and tribalism all make violence more likely. But marital customs matter, too. Wherever polygamy is widely practised ...

Mona Abo Shanab, founder of an initiative that supports the idea and prevalence of polygamy in society, strongly condemned the law's proposal, saying that it was drafted by “some women who have physiological issues and complexes and do not carefully consider the problem of the outbreak of spinsters.”.

A B.C. Supreme Court justice has rejected a stay of proceedings for two men convicted of having multiple wives, rejecting arguments that the government's lack of prosecuting them in the past was an admission they believed the Criminal Code's provisions against polygamy were unconstitutional. But a law ...

A fresh plea was on Wednesday filed in the Supreme Court seeking to declare as “illegal” and “unconstitutional” the practices of polygamy and 'nikah halala' among the Muslim community. 'Nikah halala' is a practice intended to curb the incidence of divorce, under which a man cannot remarry his former ...

So it makes sense that Enoch and his family were thrown for a loop now that the four-episode series was bought by TLC and just premiered on the network this week — especially because polygamy is illegal and now considered a felony in the state of Utah. According to Mary Ellen Crase, who is the ...

BILLINGS–A federal judge has rejected a Billings family's effort to overturn the state's anti-polygamy law. U.S. Magistrate Timothy Cavan said an 1878 U.S. Supreme Court ruling upheld states' rights to establish anti-polygamy statutes. Nathan Collier, who has been married to Vicki Collier since 2000, was ...

Nathan Collier talks about his polygamy case in the Montana Supreme Court on Monday, March 12, 2018. CASEY PAGE, Gazette Staff. Facebook · Twitter · Email; Print; Save. A U.S. District Court judge has ruled against a polygamous trio who sought a marriage license two and a half years ago in the wake ...

Seven months after the Supreme Court quashed triple talaq, acting on appeals from four women victims; petitions are now landing at the Supreme Court to end polygamy. Polygamy is the practice of having more than one wife at the same time. Under Islamic marital jurisprudence, Muslim men can have up ...

In this file photo, Winston Blackmore, the religious leader of the controversial polygamous community of Bountiful, shares a laugh with six of his daughters and some of his grandchildren in a photo taken near Creston, British Columbia, Canada, April 21, 2008 | Photo by Jonathan Hayward, The Canadian ...

But Mayor Jessop said all of them are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, of FLDS, an offshoot of mainstream Mormonism that practices polygamy. The group has run the sister cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, for more than a century and had total ...

Jane Blackmore says Friday's ruling upholding her ex-husband's polygamy conviction was "a long time coming." A B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled Canada's polygamy laws are constitutional, rejecting the argument from Bountiful, B.C., polygamists Winston Blackmore and James Oler, who claimed the law ...

This is Part 1 of a two part report on the March 1-3 Adventist Pan-African Conference on Dynamic Family Relations. ~ Editors. In another first for the Family Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, three African divisions, or world regions, came together from March 1-3, 2018 to discuss ...

'Sister Wives' family, fearing arrests for polygamy, signed paperwork stating who would care for their children. Other Utah ... The latest episode of “Sister Wives” showed how the Brown family returned to Utah in 2017 to march against a bill aimed at enhancing the penalties for polygamy. But before leaving ...

(SALT LAKE CITY) — Teenagers fleeing polygamous communities would get more legal protection from parents who could expose them to sexual abuse or forced marriage under a proposal approved Friday by a panel of Utah lawmakers. If teenagers run away from home, anyone they run to must inform ...

Kody Brown and his four wives risked their freedom by allowing TLC cameras to document their polygamist lifestyles on the reality TV series Sister Wives since polygamy — the practice that involved a man who has multiple wives — is illegal in all 50 states in America, including their home state of Utah.

Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune Luanne Cooper, left, a former member of the Polygamist Kingston clan and Jessica Christensen of the show "Escaping Polygamy" attend a hearing for HB99, a bill amending Utah's bigamy statute as it goes back to the House Judiciary Committee for another ...

Polygamy, frowned upon but legal under certain conditions in Indonesia, is increasing alongside the rise of conservative Islam in the Muslim-majority nation, activists say. “The issue is escalating as fundamentalism is on the rise,” Azriana Manalu, who chairs the National Commission on Violence Against ...

In this file photo, Winston Blackmore, the religious leader of the controversial polygamous community of Bountiful, shares a laugh with six of his daughters and some of his grandchildren in a photo taken near Creston, British Columbia, Canada, April 21, 2008 | Photo by Jonathan Hayward, The Canadian ...