This question is from a Group Therapy post in our TrèsSugar Community. Add your advice in the comments! Hi, I'm a 22-year-old girl from a strict Sikh family, where all my four sisters have had arranged marriages. I have been dating a guy from a Hindu family for four years. His family really likes me and we want to get married next year, but due to my parents we are afraid of the consequences. Read more

Here's the catch. You have to get to Madrid by the end of the week. The pope will arrive in Madrid tomorrow for World Youth Day, and as part of his visit, any woman who confesses her abortion during the event will be forgiven and welcomed back to the Church. "Special powers" have been given to all priests in Madrid, which they can use to absolve women who confess abortions. A Vatican spokesman Read more

New research from the Guttmacher Institute may debunk the idea that religion and sex don't mix. Using data gathered from a 2006-2008 survey of more than 7,000 US women ages 15-44, this report found that women of a variety of religions — Protestant, Catholic, and Buddhism included — are having sex and using contraception. These findings are released in the midst of the Planned Parenthood Read more

Pastor C.J. Mahaney has some advice for cluelessly provocative Christian girls: have your dad check you out before you leave the house. If he's turned on, you should change. Such advice is included in the pastor/author's video sermon on men's thoughts on modesty. Listen carefully ladies. College boys are telling Pastor Mahaney that every day on campus is a battle. "I am thankful God has Read more

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Our fashion choices convey messages about who we are. In Iraq, more conservative forces are not always happy with what they see. Since Saddam Hussein's demise, the New York Times explains, religious values have penetrated the previously secular society. That's brought calls for segregated universities, the closure of liquor stores, and pressure for women to dress in clothes that "will not inflame Read more

It's like the ultimate, awkward family photo, except this one has an agenda. It's to show just how not gay Ted Haggard, the defrocked evangelical minister of the New Life Church whose double life was exposed in 2006, is. Despite paying a masseuse for a massage, crystal meth (to enhance masturbation), and sex (but not sex, sex), reformed Ted told GQ he didn't do this because he was gay, he did Read more

A woman exits a frigid baptismal pool to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany, which marks the end of the Christmas holiday for Orthodox Christians. Carved out of an ice-covered pond in Minsk, Belarus, hundreds of people took the plunge in below-freezing temperatures — now that's faith! View 5 Photos ›Photo 1Photo 2Photo 3Photo 4Photo 5 Read more