First American pope marks Advent with powerful call to faith #shorts #foxnews #faith

Zohran Mamdani officially took the oath of office as the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve, becoming the 112th mayor of New York City. In a private ceremony at the abandoned Old City Hall subway station, Mamdani was sworn in by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The 34-year-old democratic socialist, who served in the 36th Assembly District representing the Queens neighborhood of Astoria, is now the city's first Muslim mayor and its first of South Asian descent. #mamdani #nyc #newyork

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In January, Iraq passed an amendment to its personal status law, which allows citizens to choose sect-specific religious courts to oversee their marriage affairs. ⁠ ⁠ Campaigners say that an amendment to the country’s personal status law is creating a black market in vulnerable girls.⁠ ⁠ But a group of Iraq’s most prominent female lawyers, journalists and activists, known as Coalition 188, has spent the past year attempting to combat and reverse the law, as well as other loopholes created by the