Cross Point church music interpreter Erica Bieri of Central motions to the music of the church worship band to deaf members. Watch the video with scenes and ... [...] more »

Assistant Rabbi Darby Jared Leigh of Bnai Keshet, who is one of only a handful of deaf men and women ordained as rabbis, said this is the third year the ... and more » [...] more »

In a Dispatches documentary to be shown on Channel 4 tonight, a British-born Pakistani woman tells how childhood deaths and deafness plagued her family ... Great Ormond Street said it was preparing to treat more children born blind or deaf, and genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anaemia, conditions which seriously affect people all their lives. Doctors said growing numbers of people from Asian countries such as Pakistan, where marriages between first cousins are more common, were expected to settle here. [...] more »

This week, Joshua Soudakoff and Isser Lubecki, both 19, set off from Toronto for Rochester in order to address the special needs of deaf members of the Jewish community. [...] more »

Muslim Deaf UK has teamed up with Doha Mosque in Bradford to offer the services of BSL (British Sign Language) interpreters at Friday prayers. ... [...] more »

Jewish tradition was not especially tolerant of subgroups. Deaf Jews, for example, were grouped together in the Talmud with the mentally retarded as exempted from religious obligations. In other words, they were not considered full Jews. [...] more »

Earlier this year, many were shocked by a New York Times story about a Wisconsin priest who abused hundreds of deaf children yet avoided being defrocked by a powerful Vatican office. He begged that he was old and sick and wished to die a priest. The head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger concurred. [...] more »

The Orthodox Union has created a new program to introduce Israel to one of the smallest minorities that exists among the Jewish People – that of the deaf and hearing-impaired. [...] more »

The Council of Young Israel Rabbis in Israel's Judaic Heritage Program for Israel's Deaf and Hearing Impaired (JHPIDHI) held its annual bar and bat mitzvah ... [...] more »

Finland's first-ever deaf pastor was ordained on Sunday at Kuopio's Lutheran Cathedral. Master of Theology Janne Rissanen will begin work with the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission. [...] more »

Fifty-four boys and girls celebrated their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs Monday in the Council of Young Israel Rabbis for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired. [...] more »

Amina Daimee, left, translates for the iman as Toronto's deaf Muslims gather at Masjid Toronto. The teacher is late for class, but none of the students seem ... [...] more »

Bible translations aren’t always for the printed word. More than 10 years ago, Wycliffe Bible Translators began translating the Bible into sign language for the deaf in countries around the world. [...] more »

The Vatican was rocked by new revelations today that Pope John Paul II was informed about the priest who molested deaf boys in Wisconsin. [...] more »

Steve made The New York Times with an excerpted interview conducted by former Capital Times reporter David Callender. In the interview Steve, for the first time in public, detailed in graphic terms how, at the age of fourteen, he was raped by Father Lawrence C. Murphy. Tough story for a sixty-year-old married dad to tell to all. Tougher yet, Steve was one of nearly two hundred deaf boys raped and abused by Murphy at the Delavan school. Murphy’s case is the gun that won’t stop smoking. The wisp makes its way from Terry Place in Madison to Delavan to the Milwaukee archdiocese, through priests, bishops, cardinals and finally to the current Pope Benedict, a former German cardinal named Joe Ratzinger. All of these guys had a chance to do right by our neighbor Steve Geier. None of them did. [...] more »