• Two Bulgarian women have filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights against their own country, whose authorities refused to register their ‘marriage’ concluded in the United Kingdom.

• The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic ruled that the constitution excludes the legal possibility of equating civil partnership with the institution of marriage understood as a union between a woman and a man.

• Public consultations on the legislative initiative on the recognition of parenthood between Member States, announced by the European Commission in April, are underway.

● Three same-sex couples sued Russia before the European Court of Human Rights, demanding almost EUR 80,000 in compensation for ‘harm and expenses’ incurred as a result of their inability to marry.

● The ECtHR ruled that Russia had violated their right to respect for private and family life, but refused to award the amount requested.

● Rev. prof. Dariusz Oko was sentenced with an injunction to a fine of EUR 4,800 for ‘inciting hatred’ as part of an article published in Thelogisches, a scientific journal.

● Also convicted is the editor-in-chief of Thelogisches.

● The article discussed the phenomenon of an intra-ecclesial organised crime group linked by homosexual practices, acting to the detriment of minors and using clerics dependent on it.

• The Italian Senate held the first reading of the ‘Zan bill’ against ‘homophobia, lesbophobia, biphobia and transphobia’.