Ushur in Christianity and Human Rights.

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Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Helwan University.

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    This study tries to define the meaning of tithing in Christianity and focus on tithing also with regard to human rights, as some have an understanding that what was offered tithing in the Old Testament was a tax paid to meet the needs of priests and the ecclesiastical order, and that the New Testament does not compel or even suggest to Christians that They have a system that codifies the tithe, and the word also indicates personal honesty in Jewish religious practices related to prayer, zakat (charity) and fasting, as Christ recommended to his disciples to work with it or to call for it, and the tithe for Christians corresponds to zakat for Muslims, which is one of the origins of the Islamic religion.

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