Religion
News about Judaism, faith and other religious issues around the world
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On the topic of domestic beatings, it is permitted to beat boys at the age of 10 in order to motivate them to pray: “The beating here is educational beating ... merciful beating.”
“Our sovereignty over Jerusalem will never compromise the freedom of worship and religion of all peoples of faith in Jerusalem and in all of Israel,” said Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
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For years, the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have presented Jesus as a Palestinian as part of its fabricating an ancient history.
Karim AbuZaid, imam of the Colorado Muslims Community Center, will speak at the Salaheddin Islamic Centre’s annual winter conference.
While Christians in Israel are thriving, communities elsewhere in the region face ongoing persecution and hardship as well as the threat of extinction due to radical Islam.
“We are proud of you; the entire nation is proud of you,” the Israeli prime minister told them at a civil New Year event at the Tel Aviv Palmach Museum. “You belong to the most moral army on earth.”
Jair Bolsonaro will be sworn in as Brazil’s 38th president on Jan. 1, likely marking improved ties with the United States and Israel.
“A Christian is someone who’s driven by the love of God, and anti-Semitism is driven by hate,” said Pastor John Hagee, founder and national chairman of Christians United for Israel. “Love and hate do not come from the same blood.”
Like their American cousins, Brazil’s evangelicals have become a political force to be reckoned with.
The abduction of 55-year-old Issam Akel took place approximately two months ago, and his family urgently contacted the United States for help in securing his safe release.
Former Israeli consul general in New York Ido Aharoni discusses what’s on the minds of Israelis and Americans, and how those subjects meet in the middle—religiously, socially and politically.
Jerusalem’s mufti, Erima Sa’id Sabri, issued a “fatwa” in July that ordered all Muslims to utterly reject land-sellers, refusing to marry, bury, do business with or attend the funeral of such people.
