Lailatul Qadr, also known as the Night of Power, is one of the most sacred nights in Islam. It occurs during the last ten nights of Ramadan, typically on one of the odd-numbered nights after the 20th day. While many observe it on the 27th night, others choose different odd nights, recognizing the mystery and […]
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Celebrity interfaith and interracial marriages pave the way for others, it makes it easy and it will be common soon. Mike Ghouse Wedding Officiant Mike@interfaithmarriages.org # # # Meet the American who will preach at the royal wedding Siobhán O’Grady, Washington Post Published: May 13, 2018 Updated: May 13, 2018 at 10:34 AM Courtesy TBO – Prince
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Pleased to share about a marriage between a Baptist groom and a Methodist wife Mike Ghouse Wedding Officiant Mike@interfaithMarriages.org # # # RELIGION: Few families now abandon their kin for once-taboo marriages By Creede Hinshaw Recently, a friend told me about a decision he made that prompted his grandmother to stop speaking to him. Although
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Individuals marry each other, not their faiths. Each faith is beautiful and is about creating harmony and building cohesive societies. Interfaith couples must be applauded for they come together with their given differences. I am pleased to have officiated several interfaith weddings and have written quite extensively giving full value to the words of Universal
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This is a blessed morning two good stories from India, one about Kerala Hindu family adopting a Muslim girl and raising her as a Muslim and getting her married of as a Muslim, and here is Muslims doing the same with Hindu orphans. We need more of these stories, we need Yogi Aditya Nath and Modi
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Stories like this should roll a tear of joy, it did to me. Happiness is when there is no conflict and I am so happy to read this story. I pray the negative trends in India against interfaith marriages come to an end, and let people marry whomever they want without harassment of any kind. If
Bing single is easy. You are the dictator of your own life, spoiled by parents and pampered by friends. Your abilities and virtues are actually put into test once you get married and begin a new life with a partner! That’s when you get to know the limits of your sharing capability and tolerance threshold. The clichéd
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I spent last week with some close friends and had a good discussion about whether couples with differing religions can successfully raise a family. Their take was it would be difficult for the children. As a family counselor, I have seen about every constellation of religions and parents imaginable. Those with the same religion, those
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We wish you, your family and friends the very best of 2018. Each New Year is a milestone in one’s life. Indeed, it is as much a day of reckoning as it is of celebrations. Reckoning involves reflecting on the reasons you did not get what you had wanted in 2017, and celebrating for what
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When Holly first kissed Jeff on a dance floor back in the 1990s, she was a college freshman from Staten Island and he was a frat brother from Long Island. They both had New York accents. He thought the petite brunette was Jewish. But Holly Rizzuto was and still is an Italian Catholic, named Holly
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