Thank you for writing with your interesting comments and excellent questions. Let me begin with the shroud of Turin. I do not believe it to be authentic. The Father has left us no relics of His Son that the church might not enter into idolatry. Although the Catholic church, and others, have claimed to have splinters of the cross, the nails which were used to hold Christ there, and a myriad of other false claims, they merely show the proclivity of man to seek some earthly artifact to serve as a substitute for faith in Christ.

Your question about cultures and races of people where the men do not readily grow beards is one I have pondered before. Undoubtedly, the Father has some testimony in this. Many of the American Indians are bereft of facial hair.

I cannot state definitively the reason. I do not teach the wearing of the beard as a law, but rather as a sign and testimony. Yahweh prophesied to Israel at one point that He would send the Assyrians to shave their beards and legs. This was an insult akin to saying that He would remove their masculinity.

Has the Father done similar things with entire races due to some ancestral sin, or protracted idolatry? That is very possible. There are few followers of Yahweh, or disciples of Yahshua historically among the Asian nations you have mentioned.

May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.