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Good - nessecary to know - also for a Filipino - if you want to marry to a muslim

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Filipino Courtship - Filipino Wedding - Filipino Marriage

• Culture, Paperwork, Rules, Guidelines &Requirements

• Catholic Church - Wedding Guidelines &Requirements

• Civil registration - Wedding Guidelines &Requirements

• Marriage - Wedding Guidelines & Requirements - other religions & Ethnic groups

• Thoughts on Marriages between Muslims and non-Muslims

• Dating & “Live-in” relationship

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Child Spouses - Early Marriage

in Ethnic & Indigenous groups

The Philippines - Early marriage - putting lives at risk

For a non-Muslim it´s very important to read and hear from other about their experience bad - good in such a marriage for both them and children, ALSO IN POLYGAMY, and get accept from own family of such a marriage, before he - she accept dating - marriage. THINK, THINK and THINK!

Our advice DON´T JOIN SUCH AN INTERFAITH MARRIAGE - RELATIONSHIP!

Warning - IMPORTANT - Warning!

PERSONS AND FAMILY RELATIONS

• Ifugao, Mountain Province
• Ilocos Province
• Province of Batangas
• Province of Cebu
• Province of Leyte
• Tausug

MARRIAGE ISLAMIC STYLE?

Read much more about muslim wedding traditions and rituals HERE

 Muslim´s Questions & RESPONSE

5. Are converts to Islam required to do any study before converting? What would a convert to Islam be expected to know about Islam? Would they be expected to know the 5 articles of faith?

Code of Muslim Personal Laws in the Philippines (Presidential Decree no. 1083 1977) concerning family law and institutions (Polygamy, nikah, divorce, paternity, filiation, nafaqah, registration, succession, and constitution and jurisdiction of shari'ah courts)

Remark:

There´s still Early Marriage: Marriage Age: minimum marriage age 15 years for males and puberty for females (female is presumed to have attained puberty at 15 years); Sharia District Court may authorise marriage of female between 12 and 15 years if she has attained puberty.

Don´t do it and putting lives at risk

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There are more than fifty tribes in the Philippines, each with distinct, diverse and independent courtship and marriage customs and traditions.

However, a scrutiny of these readily establishes certain incontrovertible features common to all.

The Yapayaos/Isnegs have their own customs and tradition that they preserve just like marriage which comes in two forms, the traditional Ilocano marriage and the unique tribal marriage which they call it “PANAGASSAWO NA YAPAYAO.”

Islam, Women and Gender Justice:

  A Discourse on the Traditional Islamic Practices among the Tausug in Southern Philippines

 by Jamail A. Kamlian

There’s an interesting article published in the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, entitled: The Legal Impediments to the Application of Islamic Family Law in the Philippines.

The link to this Journal is here (the link contains just the quoted abstract).

Any thoughts - Why may we not just read it?????

The Code of Muslim Personal Laws is a special law for Muslims enacted through a Presidential Decree at the height of the Moro rebellion in the 1970s. All of the other national laws, including criminal law, apply to Muslim Filipinos along with the rest of the population.

is an international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.

Read e.g. about "Moro ethnic women speak-out on sexual violence in customary practices and traditions" HERE and "Murder in the Name of Honour" HERE

Muslim Father, Catholic Mother: What About the Child?

In Islam, one of the requirements of a mixed marriage is that the mother is allowed to follow her own religious practice but the children are to be raised as Muslims.

• The Tausug of Mindanao
• The Ifugaos of Ifugao Province
• The Kalingas of Kalinga Province
• The Aetas of Luzon
• The Ilongots of Northern Luzon

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The Power of Sulu

Beyond the Currents - The Power of Sulu

Tausug Marriage Traditions (page 13)

by/The Yuchengco Museum

Filipino Wedding Variations

for e.g. Igorot, Aetas

and with many good link about clothes etc.

Reviving a vanishing wedding tradition

The Barogway - Reviving a vanishing wedding tradition

By Gigi G. Dumallig

The Pangol people still practice their unique wedding ritual called the barogway, an event that is celebrated only by the Pangol people among all cultural communities in Kalinga, Luzon.

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• General overview
• Other courtship practices Tagalog and Ilocos regions
• Other courtship practices Pangasinan region
• Other courtship practices Apayao region
• Other courtship practices Palawan region
• Other courtship practices Visayas region
• Other courtship practices Mindanao region

Filipino Wedding Traditions

look also about Arab settlement in the Philippines HERE and Islam in the Philippines HERE

All About Muslim Weddings

"Report of Marriage" of MUSLIM FILIPINOS

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Remark: The minimum age of marriage is 15 for males, and ‘the age of puberty’ for females. A female between 12 and 15 years old can be married upon approval by the Shari’a District Court. The majority of girls in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in Mindanao marry before they reach 18.

IMPORTANT: READ WARNING ABOVE!!!!!

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Chinese Marriage and Wedding

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look also about Buddhism in the Philippines HERE

look also about Hinduism in the Philippines HERE