women and Islam
Indian women breaking down barriers to religious leadership
By Priyadarshini Sen — May 15, 2018
PUNE, India (RNS) — As ideas about gender equality spread in India, female clergy are slowly gaining acceptance in the country’s male-dominated religions, solemnizing marriage, birth and death ceremonies for Hindus and adjudicating religious matters for Muslims.
‘Dalya’s Other Country’ portrays Muslim American mother and daughter
By Kimberly Winston — June 23, 2017
(RNS) A new film follows a teenage Syrian girl, as she becomes the only Muslim in an all-girl Catholic school in Los Angeles, and her mother, whose marriage dissolves.
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