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 legalising same-sex unions.

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“Why can’t a mayor be a conscientious objector?” asks Serafino Ferrino, mayor of Favria in Turin, home to around 5,000 people.

Ferrino, who is a practising Catholic, refused to officiate a civil union between two men in his municipality, according to local media.

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Photo By Kurt Löwenstein Educational Center International Team from Germany (qe07 (9)) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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