Divorce is not an option for religious marriages, the Divorce Movement said this afternoon.

Addressing a news conference in front of the Cana Movement headquarters, movement head Deborah Schembri said the group wanted to make it clear that divorce would never be an option for religious marriages.

She pointed out that in the first quarter this year there were more civil than church marriages.

There are a lot of people, she said, who did not have anything to do with the church and they still got married. It was not fair to deprive these people of their civil rights.

Michael Falzon praised the work carried out by the Cana Movement, which, he said was filling a void in preparing young couples for marriage.

Such preparation should also be offered by the government, especially since more couples were opting to marry civilly.

Both Mr Falzon and Labour MP Evarist Bartolo said they were happily married and were sure they would not need divorce. However, they believed they should not deprive those who did of this right.

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