The Waldensian Evangelical Church on Friday became the first Protestant church in Italy to formally offer to "bless" same-sex couples in civil partnerships, a common practice in Protestant churches across Europe.
A homosexual couple were forced to cancel their holiday at a Calabrian guesthouse after the owner told them, via Whatsapp, that gays and animals are not allowed.
An Italian priest has said the recent earthquakes that have shaken the country, killing hundreds and leaving tens of thousands homeless, were "divine punishment" for gay civil unions, earning the Vatican's wrath.
A mayor in a northern Italian town has refused to officiate a civil union - but says his actions aren't a "challenge" to the recently-passed law legalizing same-sex unions.
Italy's long-awaited, much-disputed law allowing gay civil unions took effect Friday after it was published in an official journal, as couples start applying for legal recognition of their same-sex relationships.
Italy has been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for its refusal to grant a residency permit on family grounds to a New Zealand citizen who wanted to come and live with his Italian partner.
A group of mostly right-wing Italian politicians announced on Thursday they will seek a referendum to overturn the introduction of gay civil unions, a day after parliament approved the landmark law.
When the Italian government finally approved a bill allowing gay civil unions on Wednesday, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi declared it was "a day for celebration."
The Italian government finally approved a bill to allow gay civil unions, after a long and bitter debate that has pitted the Catholic Church against Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
Italy is set to legalize gay civil unions with a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday on a bill hailed as a historic turning point but criticized as a missed opportunity for greater change.
The civil unions bill might have polarized the country ahead of being approved last month, but one of Italy's biggest fashion houses, Gucci, is taking matters into its own hands.
British film "Weekend" was restricted to just ten cinemas on its release in Italy on Thursday after the country's bishops branded Andrew Haigh's acclaimed gay love story "indecent" and "unusable" in the country's many Church-owned film theatres.
Thousands of gay rights activists and LGBT families rallied in Rome Saturday in protest at the watering down of Italy’s civil union’s bill, which no longer envisages adoption rights for homosexual couples.
A Rome family court has approved a lesbian couple's request to simultaneously adopt each other's daughters in a legal first in Italy, gay groups said on Tuesday.
A "super-amendment" to a civil unions bill was passed in a vote of confidence in the Senate on Thursday, paving the way for the contested bill to become law.
Senators from the ruling Democratic Party have agreed to drop a measure that would have allowed gay people to adopt their partner’s biological children from the controversial civil unions bill.
Italian Premier Matteo Renzi on Sunday warned he could call a high-stakes confidence vote in his government in a bid to unlock
a parliamentary deadlock over gay civil unions.
Italy's Senate on Wednesday suspended a debate over legislation allowing gay civil unions after the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) scuppered a move to push the historic bill through the upper house unscathed.
