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13 Questions to Ask Before Getting Married

13 Questions to Ask Before Getting Married The more you learn about what you are getting into, the better informed you will be and can handle most of the conflicts, indeed, you can predict them and save some tensions. Mike Ghouse Courtesy New York Times 13 Questions to Ask Before Getting Married Eleanor Stanford, March 24, […]

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Lynslei Weds Adam on January 1, 2018

LYNSLEI WEDS ADAM ON JAN 1, 2018 January 1, 2018, Washington, DC – Dr. Mike Ghouse officiated the wedding ceremony today, and this is the first interfaith wedding of the year. Mike has been officiating the interfaith weddings for the last eight years and is a licensed interfaith wedding officiant in the United States. When

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Christmasukah

Conservative synagogue members discuss their approach to interfaith challenges Though she was on the panel, Temple Beth-El Mekor Chayim (TBEMC) Rabbi Rachel Schwartz said little. It was mainly left to the several other panelists, who represented a diverse spectrum of families, to discuss the challenges surrounding the observances of Christmas and Chanukah — a quandary

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What happens when you fall in love across the religious divide?

In faith, as in love, we leap. We hope. We whisper holy words, words that hold power, maybe magic. We pilgrimage across whatever distances necessary. We experience the ineffable. We understand the unexplainable. We sense in an instant a familiarity, a knowing. We get over and outside of ourselves to connect with something so much

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End of child marriage in India

India closes child marriage loophole India’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that marital sex with a minor constitutes rape, for which perpetrators can face criminal charges. The landmark case overturns a 1940 law that permitted men to marry and consummate marriages with child brides as young as fifteen—a loophole that undermined the efficacy of a 2006 law banning the

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India Rules Sex With a Child Bride Is Always Rape in a Massive Win for Girls’ Rights

It’s a landmark change to India’s marital rape laws. India’s top court has ruled that sex with a child is always rape, quashing a clause that allowed men to have sex with underage girls if they were married to them. The Supreme Court’s landmark decision on Wednesday closed a legal loophole that has historically allowed

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Would you write your own wedding vows?

Congratulations to the couple, a Christian man and a Hindu woman. This is good news whilst the extremists from among Hindus are making life difficult for interfaith weddings, the good majority of Hindus are very accepting and respecting of other’s lives. Mike Ghouse Interfaith Wedding Offficant USA # # # Courtesy of Hindustan Times dated

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