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Covenants without Circumcision in the Jewish Reform Movement

Many Reform Jewish Rabbis are Adopting Symbolic Covenant Rituals.

(TEL AVIV) - Many Rabbis are welcoming intact males into the Jewish community, and a growing number of Rabbis feel that surgical circumcision is no longer appropriate in the 21st century.

In Europe, 200 years ago, influential Rabbis in the early Reform movement of Judaism began writing in private correspondences that Jews should abolish circumcision surgery.

How Soon We Forget

Radical, religious extremists are all over the world and are bad for humanity. They use religion to justify bigotry and violence against other people.

(OKINAWA) - When the word radicals and terrorists are mentioned, what is your first thought?

Since the horrific events of 9/11, people of a certain skin tone or religious preference have been stereotyped, profiled, harassed, and pre-judged as being anti-American or terrorist.

Inviting Armageddon

Try as I may to keep my self imposed vow of silence on Syria the time has come for me to speak out. Armageddon awaits.

(LONDON) - My silence was born from the deep belief that if you have nothing constructive to say regarding any on-going conflict then keeping your own counsel is best.

What could you or I, as Arabs and Moslems and children of Greater Syria, say when you see that everything that you have been brought up to believe in has been destroyed?

Sri Lanka Needs to Come Clean on Rights Issues

Tamils’ rights need to be restored and they should be allowed back into the nation’s mainstream.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The government of Sri Lanka should sense an opportunity to get into the good books at the UN by using the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government summit.

Sri Lanka should herald confidence-building measures against the country’s minorities, particularly the Tamils.

Bishop Warns of `Buddhist Taliban` in Sri Lanka

Hindu temples and Christian churches have been destroyed and frequently replaced with Buddhist structures.

(GALLEM, Sri Lanka) - Bishop Raymond Wickramasinghe of Gallem, Sri Lanka, is seeking the prayers of the faithful worldwide as the nation’s Christians and Muslims suffer persecution from Bodu Bala Sana (BBS), the “Buddhist Taliban.”

The Fides news agency reported that Buddhist monks were involved in 50 attacks on Christians in 2012.

Pope Against `Slave Labour` on Feast of St. Joseph

I ask my brothers and sisters in faith and all men and women of good will for a decisive choice to combat trafficking in persons, which includes ‘slave labour’

(CHENNAI) - Pope Francis said that the whole world must undertake “decisive action” against human trafficking and “slave labour”, which de-humanises workers and denies them their dignity.

Speaking to tens of thousands of people in St Peter’s Square, the pontiff noted that “there is a light at the end of every tunnel...”

Pakistani Christian Wishes for Renaissance of Jinnah`s Pakistan

Social persecution and legal discrimination against minorities has reached at its climax.

(ISLAMABAD) - It remains a fact that minorities of Pakistan are crippled and damaged under an anarchy system.

In the prevailing social scenario of the country the message of the founder of the nation, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, appears to have been lost somewhere and the continuous hatching of conspiracies by certain elements with vested interests and nefarious designs, seems to have prevailed.

Jewish Men Discuss Circumcision. What do we really think?

Reform Judaism: more and more Jews are questioning traditional circumcision.

(TEL AVIV) - The practice of circumcision is something I've been aware of from a very young age. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and my family is Orthodox...

Whether it's the Victorian-era doctors, bent on perpetuating their own sexual repression, or during the Maccabean Period where the Jewish priestly ruling class instituted the more severe form of brit milah that is practiced today...

Pastor Tells of How He Overcame Porn Addiction

‘Hiding sin never provides us with the power to overcome it’

(WASHINGTON DC) - Three years into our marriage, my wife, Trisha, woke up in the middle of the night and realized I wasn’t in bed.

She walked out into the living room and as soon as she looked at the TV, I quickly changed the channel.

Be Not Deceived

A smiling figurehead and a facelift don't change the nature of the Beast.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - The gestures of Jorge-Francis, to refashion the Catholic Church image into that of a more "humble, just" body are predictable and ridiculous

It makes as much sense as a ravaging strip-mining corporation sponsoring an annual "Eco-Friendly Day".