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image captionThe blessings have been organised under the slogan "love wins"
Priests in around 100 Catholic churches in Germany are offering blessings to same-sex couples from Monday.
The Love Wins movement emerged after the Catholic Church said in March that God "cannot bless sin".
"Couples who take part should receive the blessing that God wants to give them - without any secrecy," the group wrote earlier.
Pope Francis has previously said he believes same-sex couples show be allowed to have "civil unions".
Last year, he told a documentary that these couples "have a right to be in a family".