Heartsong Church in Tennessee and Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Virginia have hosted
Muslim worship communities in their church buildings, prompting the question of how much hospitality is too much.
Not exact matches
They say that the patterns of
worship and religious education seem designed to preserve the connections to the countries from which their
Muslim communities emigrated, while these young folks want their faith to guide them in their lives in America.
Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious
community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and
Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their
worship schedule.
We have seen the nature of the true
worship of Islam; in considering the dealings we shall be concerned with the dealings within the
Muslim community — the family, monetary affairs, relations with fellow
Muslims, and government — and dealings with non-
Muslims both as individuals and nations.
Although they have often been considered as unorthodox by the leaders of Islam, their attempts to provide a rational basis for Islamic beliefs and a mystical basis for Islamic
worship have for centuries enriched and stimulated the
Muslim community.
«As a citizen, and as President, I believe that
Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country.And that includes the right to build a place of
worship and a
community...
Prince Charles and Camilla visited places of
worship belonging to the Christian,
Muslim, Chinese and Hindu
communities in George Town, the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang.