Applying for a Marriage Certificate: ... A certificate from a Parsi priest is required to register the marriage. 4. Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872. Applies to Christians.

He pointed out that the Christian Marriage Act was sometimes exploited for the conversion and forced marriage of Christian girls, allowing a 13-year-old girl to be married.

Each year an estimated 1,000 girls from religious minorities in Pakistan — Christian, Hindu and Sikh — are abducted, and forced into marriage and conversion to Islam.

The Christian community in Mumbai said that registration of weddings solemnised in churches has come to a halt after the last marriage officer in the city retired last month.

The Act amends Section 60 of the Christian Marriage Act, 1872, where the age of Christian men and women intending to be married was required to exceed 16 and 13 years, respectively.

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The Christian Marriage Act of 2024 amended an 1872 British rule allowing marriage at 13 for girls and 16 for boys, raising the age to 18 for both genders.

Associated Press. MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An expert will tell an inquiry that three Christian extremists killed two police officers and a bystander and wounded a third police officer in an ...

He pointed out that the Christian Marriage Act was sometimes exploited for the conversion and forced marriage of Christian girls, allowing a 13-year-old girl to be married.