Tag: religious freedom
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3 vying for new Ann Arbor-area seat at Michigan House
ANN ARBOR, MI — Three candidates are vying for a new seat in the Michigan House of Representatives in a district that stretches from northern Ann ... -
NCRC launches guidance note on forced conversions
Islamabad: The National Commission for the Rights of the Child (NCRC) on Monday launched its first fundamental policy brief on forced conversions – signaling the Commission’s ... -
Chinese pastor blacklisted by Communist Party shares testimony
Through Leah Marie Ann KlettEditorial assistant | Sunday, February 13, 2022 Rev. Jonathan Liu, founder of the Chinese Christian Fellowship of Righteousness, was blacklisted by the ... -
Eritrean Patriarch Abune Antonios dies after 16 years in D…… | News and reports
Abune Antonios, a confined patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Church and the longest serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on February 9 ... -
Police arrest four for forcing villager to convert to Christianity
Madhya Pradesh police on Thursday arrested four people for forcing a Hindu villager named Manohar Bansal to convert to Christianity in Guradi village of Sehore district. ... -
Saudi and Emirati religious moderation inspires little beyond their borders
Saudi Arabia and the UAE praised social reforms that nationally reduced the role of religion in public life, strengthened women’s rights and, in the case of ... -
Sight Magazine – Essay: 2021
December 15, 2021 ELLIS HEASLEY As always, 2021 has been both a year of setbacks and advances in freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) around the ... -
Iranian House Churches Not Illegal, Supreme Court Says …… | News and reports
Currently, at least 20 Christians are imprisoned in Iran because their faith was considered a threat to the national security of the Islamic Republic. Among the ... -
Discrimination bill may unintentionally harm Christians, Katter says
Reading time: 3 minutes Independent MP Bob Katter. (Image AAP / Mick Tsikas) A growing chorus of Conservative dissatisfaction with the federal government’s religious discrimination bill ... -
UK to host world summit on freedom of religion and belief
The UK government has announced plans to hold a World Summit to Promote Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) in July 2022 in London to boost ... -
As Melbourne faces ugly civil unrest, Scott Morrison looks like a political leader seeking a hammer blow | Scott Morrison
We’ll get to Scott Morrison “double talk to extremists” (as Daniel Andrews said on Friday) shortly. But let’s start with Israel Folau and what Bill Shorten ... -
Schools Can Hire Faith Based Teachers Under Religious Discrimination Bill, Says Alan Tudge | Australian education
Education Minister Alan Tudge said the federal government’s revised religious discrimination bill will allow schools to hire on the basis of faith, but they will not ... -
Religious leaders attack Andrews government’s religious schools bill
The National Catholic Education Commission also opposed the bill on Tuesday and urged the Morrison government to push forward its own religious discrimination legislation, which is ... -
Tasmania leads the way in Victoria against religious discrimination against LGBTIQ +
A study found profound differences in worker satisfaction between states with and without protective legislation.Credit:PA I don’t mean to say that schools and denominational services are ... -
Patriarch Bartholomew praises Biden as ‘man of faith’ as US offers support to Orthodox leader
Patriarch Bartholomew I, the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church based in Istanbul, said he was pleased to meet Joe Biden on October 25, praising the ... -
US Senate should swiftly affirm Texan Rashad Hussain as religious freedom ambassador
This column is part of our ongoing opinion piece on faith, called Living our faith. Receive weekly project summaries delivered to your inbox by subscribing to ... -
Egyptian President Promotes Religious Choice During …… | News and reports
By committing Egypt to a five-year human rights reform program, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has not mince words on religion. “If someone tells me that he ... -
How to get a religious exemption for the COVID vaccine at work?
Religion and politics are generally taboo subjects in the workplace. But these days, employers are increasingly asking questions about both when responding to requests for religious ... -
With the mass murders of Christians and the persecution of other religious minorities, should Nigeria be re-designated a Country of Special Concern?
In the last six decades since gaining independence of Britain, Nigeria – Africa’s most populous country – faced one crisis after another that threatened to undermine ... -
Religious and other minorities are under serious threat in Afghanistan and urgent action is needed, says US panel – Baptist News Global
The United States and the Global Community must pressure the Taliban to stop persecuting Afghanistan’s religious and ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ communities and even Muslims, said ... -
A test of religious sincerity?
Following a growing wave of requests for religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates, some employers are questioning the sincerity and basis of their employees’ ... -
Churches don’t just follow the opinions and actions of their followers on political issues, they can shape them as well.
Despite the separation of church and state in the American Constitution, American religious institutions and movements are often active in politics. But do they follow the ... -
Myanmar Christians Suffer Amid Crackdown | Catholic National Register
Burma’s Christian minority is suffering amid the military’s continued crackdown on protesters opposing its February coup, a human rights activist said on Tuesday. Benedict Rogers said ... -
Few religions are downright against the COVID vaccine
The growing number of COVID vaccine mandates from employers has prompted many to use religion as a ground for exemption from getting the vaccine. However, if ... -
What is the Narnia-inspired Caldron Pool and does it promote “Christian nationalism” in Australia? | Christianity
On a Narnia-inspired website, amid anti-vaccination, anti-mask and anti-abortion messages, there are two petitions named after Hebrew prophets. The website, Caldron Pool, has become a place ... -
Supreme Court quashes criminal case against man charged under MPs religious freedom law
The Supreme Court overturned the criminal case against a man accused of forcibly converting a person to Christianity. According to the prosecution, George Mangalapilly had converted ... -
New law in Wales threatens pastor’s religious freedom
09/13/2021 United Kingdom (International Christian Concern) – The Welsh government recently acknowledged that its plans to ban ‘conversion therapy’, the LGBTQ + Action Plan for Wales, ... -
Open Forum: What Do the Taliban and the Right Have in Common? | Winchester Star
This is a tit-for-tat response to a September 1 open forum titled “What Do the Taliban and the Left Have in Common?” “ I take no ... -
How do the anti-smallpox vaccines compare to those today?
Three years ago, I wrote a story for Discover who described the long history of anti-vaccination sentiment in the United States. At the time, the country ... -
As Christians in Afghanistan fight for their lives, Christians in America walk and pray in Washington, DC
More … than 340 million people around the world are persecuted for practicing their Christian faith – making it the largest persecuted religious group. In solidarity ... -
Opinion: LGBTQ rights and religion: we don’t need an activist campaign
As thorny as the debate to support religious freedom while ensuring protections against discrimination for LGBTQ Americans may be, the best results will not be won ... -
An alliance for change | Persecution
This story originally appeared in the April issue of ICC’s Persecution magazine. 04/26/2021 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – As you have read, the Turkish government poses ... -
The judge dismisses the appeal of the Isipingo mosque; the call to prayer should not be heard beyond the boundaries of the madrasa
Durban – Judge Sidwell Mngadi has dismissed a request to appeal his judgment on the Muslim call to prayer, or Azaan. The judgment was handed down ... -
Pakistani Christians worried about potential persecution as government expels French ambassador: World: Christianity Daily
Pakistani Christians are said to be worried about the potential persecution that would occur when a French ambassador was expelled based on appeals from supporters of ... -
College challenges critical race / gender theory and ‘awakening’ – Times News Online
Posted on April 26, 2021 2:45 PM Fifty years ago, the Wall Street Journal dubbed the College of the Ozarks, a private, Christian and liberal arts ... -
USCIRF and China Aid publish annual reports on religious freedom
China Aid focused on persecuted house church Christians in China, USCIRF identified 14 countries, insisting for a stronger stance on Russia. by Massimo Introvigne The USCIRF ...
