The Orphans' Decree was a law in the Kingdom of Yemen mandating the forced conversion of Jewish orphans to Islam promulgated by the Zaydi. According to...

Decree 770 was a decree of the communist government of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, signed in 1967. It restricted abortion and contraception,...

Islamic law entitled the "orphans decree". The law dictated that if Jewish boys or girls under the age of 12 were orphaned, they were to be forcibly converted...

Converso Marrano Neofiti Epikoros Sephardic Bnei Anusim Who is a Jew? Orphans' Decree Crypto-Judaism Talmud, Abodá Zará 54a Rotem, Tamar (February 27, 2010)...

neglected orphans?, Chris Rogers, BBC News, 21 December 2009 http://www.hopeandhomes.org/news/ARK_Partnership/index.html [dead link] "Orphans' Lonely Beginnings...

such as the Orphans' Decree, which required orphans of Jewish parents to be raised as Muslims. Once Ottoman rule began, the Orphan's Decree was revoked...

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Imams of Yemen enacted a law known as the Orphans' Decree, based on their legal interpretations. The Orphan Edict was ignored during Ottoman rule (1872–1918)...

the orphan, and Athenian law supported all orphans of those killed in military service until the age of eighteen. Plato (Laws, 927) says: "Orphans should...

conversion of Jewish orphans. No date is given for this decree by modern studies nor who issued it. The forced conversion of Jewish orphans was reintroduced...