A NEW York woman has won a landmark court victory to keep a house bequeathed to her by her parents. Almost a decade ago Amy Neustein found herself locked out of the house by her brother, who claimed a religious right to evict her. Ancient Jewish law says the first-born son – the b’khor – [...]
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A blind Muslim woman had to make do without a guide dog her whole life because her devout parents would not allow a dog in the house, considering the animal unclean. But then, according to this report, Mona Ramouni learned about miniature guide horses. The psychology student, from Dearborn in Michigan,  used three years of [...]
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OH dear, here we go again. It seems that not a day passes without a fresh “evidence” that Christians in Britain are being “persecuted”. According to this report, the latest zealot to leap onto the persecution bandwagon is a Christian doctor who claims she was ousted from a council adoption panel after refusing to endorse [...]
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WALID Husayin, the 26-year-old son of a Muslim scholar in the small West Bank town of Qalqiliya, is behind bars after being exposed as an atheist blogger. Husayin, described here as a “shy barber” who prayed with his family each Friday, created uproar in the Muslim world by secretly posting anti-religion rants on the Internet [...]
A PAKISTANI court has sentenced to death a Christian mother of five for blasphemy, the first such conviction of a woman. According to this report, Asia Bibi, 45, was sentenced on Monday by a court in Nankana district in Pakistan’s central province Punjab, about 75 kilometres west of the country’s cultural capital of Lahore. Pakistan [...]
A UNITED Free Church of Scotland minister and his wife have won a £30,000 jackpot after ploughing £50 a month into playing the People’s Postcode Lottery. The Rev Peter de Villiers and his wife Welda, on secondment to Scotland from their native South Africa, won £12,000 and £18,000, repectively – much to the consternation of [...]
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