INTERFAITH MARRIAGE TODAY

Best Wedding Officiant This morning, I officiated a Vietnamese-Burmese, Buddhist Muslim wedding. It’s pure joy to see different people come together and live harmoniously. You don’t have to be like-minded to live in harmony, but learn to accept and respect each other for who you are. These young couples are…

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Wedding at the GAZEBO – Washington Mall

Dr. Mike Mohamed Ghouse is a Social Scientist, Public Speaker, thinker, author, newsmaker, and Interfaith Wedding Officiant. He is deeply committed to Pluralism in Religion, Politics, Societies, Human rights, and religious freedom. He is the founder and president of the Center for Pluralism, Director at the World Muslim Congress, a…

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Interfaith Marriages in the United States of America aren’t easy

Dr. Zafar Iqbal. In my stay of about five decades in North America, I have experienced changes in the lifestyle, food habits, and social and cultural practices of immigrants from the Subcontinents. Like most first-generation immigrants, the South Asian populations settling in their newly adopted land worked hard to adhere…

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Reverse of Misogyny in Interfaith Relationships

Men have not outgrown their ‘need’ to control others, particularly their women. They want their women to be subservient to their whims, even in America, and in all faith traditions. It is what the men wish that happens. The societies are still misogynistic, and I hope it will change. I…

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More Americans are Marrying People of different faiths and races

On June 12, 2017, it will have been 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court decided that Americans should in fact be allowed to marry a partner of whatever race they want. Since then, many American couples have availed themselves of that right, although white people remain much less likely to marry…

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Indonesia – Interfaith Marriage is Legal – But With Many Obstacles

I have officiated a wedding – a Malaysian groom and a Vietnamese bride. It was a joy to go through their celebrations Mike GhouseWedding officiantMike@Interfaithmarriages.org# # # Indonesia, Interfaith Marriage is Legal – But With Many ObstaclesCourtesy VOA  JAKARTA —  In Indonesia, interfaith marriage is legal but culturally discouraged and some…

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Interfaith Marriages among Jews – Pew Survey

The article follows a comment by Dr. Mike Ghouse; “Compatibility” was the main reason for marriages to last, but it was wrapped up in the same “religion” and same “culture and ethnicity.” The previous societies assumed that compatibility exists only among people of the same faith, and within the same…

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