Portuguese Church: 'Think twice about marrying Muslims'
On Sunday, the government-run Human Rights Commission condemned marriages of minor girls, saying such marriages are an 'inhumane violation' and rob children of their rights.
The commission's statement followed a ruling by a court in Oneiza in central Saudi Arabia last month that dismissed a divorce petition by the mother of an eight-year-old girl whose father married her off to a man in his 50s.
Newspaper reports said the court argued that the mother did not have the right to file such a case on behalf of her daughter and said that the petition should be filed by the girl when she reaches puberty.
Responding to a question about parents who force their underage daughters to marry, the mufti said: 'We hear a lot about the marriage of underage girls in the media, and we should know that Islamic law has not brought injustice to women.'
The mufti said a good upbringing will make a girl capable of carrying out her duties as a wife and that those who say women should not marry before the age of 25 are following a 'bad path'.
'Our mothers and before them, our grandmothers, married when they were barely 12,' said Al Sheikh, according to the Al-Hayat newspaper.
There are no statistics to show how many marriages involving children are performed in Saudi Arabia every year.
It is also not clear whether these unions are on the rise or whether people are hearing about them more now because of the prevalence of media outlets and easy access to the Internet.
Though the mufti's pronouncements are respected and provide guidance, the government is not legally bound by them.
On Sunday, the government-run Human Rights Commission condemned marriages of minor girls, saying such marriages are an 'inhumane violation' and rob children of their rights.
The commission's statement followed a ruling by a court in Oneiza in central Saudi Arabia last month that dismissed a divorce petition by the mother of an eight-year-old girl whose father married her off to a man in his 50s.
Newspaper reports said the court argued that the mother did not have the right to file such a case on behalf of her daughter and said that the petition should be filed by the girl when she reaches puberty.
Responding to a question about parents who force their underage daughters to marry, the mufti said: 'We hear a lot about the marriage of underage girls in the media, and we should know that Islamic law has not brought injustice to women.'
The mufti said a good upbringing will make a girl capable of carrying out her duties as a wife and that those who say women should not marry before the age of 25 are following a 'bad path'.
'Our mothers and before them, our grandmothers, married when they were barely 12,' said Al Sheikh, according to the Al-Hayat newspaper.
There are no statistics to show how many marriages involving children are performed in Saudi Arabia every year.
It is also not clear whether these unions are on the rise or whether people are hearing about them more now because of the prevalence of media outlets and easy access to the Internet.
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Next is a book we better as Christians become familiar with. This could very well end the Third Age of the Zodiac Calendar, which places the Sun as God and is determined after the great year in what house the Solace begins. There are 12 and mankind has only lived through three coming to the end of the third age. Moses started at the end of Taurus the Bull, beginning of the age of the Ram. Remember how mad he was at seeing the chosen people worshiping a Golden Calf. He hurled the ten commandments God wrote in stone down to the ground smashing them to smithereens then commanded his henchmen to kill all that were worshiping the Tarus bull in this new age of the ram. Time for the blowing of the Rams Horn.
As people got wiser with the passage of generations this had to be removed from Astrology.It had to be changed that God was mad because they were praying to Graven Images.
With the telescope in common use Astrology was now termed Astronomy, a Science.
Jesus started at the end of the Zodiac Ram and the beginning of the age of Fishes. We are now drawing to the end of this age coming to the House of the Water Bearer.
Do you remember reading the passage of the Tower of Babel? With Blessings to all, Al.
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