women and religion

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• Family Friday: A Mother’s Love

  
  Mormon Women: Who We Are — Authority: 130
  ~by Jenny Last night, while tightly hugging me around my neck, my twenty-three month old spontaneously told me that she loved me – for the first time. ”I love you.” Oh, how those words hold such magic. I immediately became a puddle of mommy love, Callie melting to the ground with me. I then filed this memory ...
  21 hours ago

• UN: Rise of Religious Extremism

  
  Women of History — Authority: 141
  From the Voice of America : A senior United Nations official has voiced fears that rising religious extremism poses a new and major threat against women. Noeleen Heyzer, the head of the U.N. economic commission for Asia and the Pacific, warns that religious extremism may be a more serious threat to women ...
  1 week ago

• Israel: Women Arrested At Wall

  
  Women of History — Authority: 141
  From Reuters : In a motion read by Ms Safina Kwekwe Tsungu, an Eala member from Kenya, the legislators further urged EAC member countries to ensure that women get comprehensive and accessible health services and programmes. They expressed deep concerns on the plight of women in refugee camps and those ...
  1 week ago

• SA: Women Only Mosque

  
  Women of History — Authority: 141
  From Times Live (South Africa): The Sandton Muslim Jamaat Mosque for women is the first of its kind in the country. Women worshippers now have a place to offer prayer adjacent to the mens mosque. Rashid Mayet said they decided to build the mosque because of their large worship base. He said people ...
  1 week ago

• UK: Female Rabbis 35 Years

  
  Women of History — Authority: 141
  From the Guardian : A woman applied to the Leo Baeck (Rabbinic) College. The admissions committee decided that although the theological arguments were still raging, there could be no objection to her acquiring Jewish learning and let her in. Five years later they realised that as she had finished the course ...
  2 weeks ago

• Links We Like: Chapels and Temples — Glimpses inside each, and how they differ

  
  Mormon Women: Who We Are — Authority: 130
  Have you ever wondered what goes on inside of the meetinghouses of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? See this LDS Newsroom story that explains more about our buildings and what kinds of meetings we hold in them. As the article explains, our meetinghouses are both places of worship and centers of ...
  2 weeks ago

• First Person: Just What I Needed

  
  Mormon Women: Who We Are — Authority: 130
  ~by Heidi It had been a bad day. I was dealing with disappointment over a hoped-for opportunity that had been withdrawn, and pain over a teacher’s unfair and damaging treatment of my young son. As I sat at my computer where so much of my life seems to happen these days, I was feeling lonely and discouraged. Just ...
  3 weeks ago

• First Person: Halloween Help

  
  Mormon Women: Who We Are — Authority: 130
  ~by Michelle Nearly fifteen years ago, I was a single, working professional living far from my family. My ward [congregation] became my family. At one point, I had a calling as the ward Activities Chair. It was one of the more daunting callings I have had, particularly because I have never fancied myself much of a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Women & the Reformation

  
  Women of History — Authority: 141
  Article by Michael Streich @ Suite 101 : The Protestant Reformation has been both criticized and lauded for altering the medieval status of women. Protestant reformers placed significant emphasis on marriage and the role females played as wives and mothers. Taking their cue from New Testament passages relevant ...
  4 weeks ago

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