Source: Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious freedom remains under “serious and sustained assault” around the globe, according to a new annual report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. “At best, in most of the countries we cover, religious freedom conditions have failed to improve,” commission chairman Robert […]
Source: The Guardian India has denied visas for a delegation from the US government agency charged with monitoring international religious freedom. The delegation from the US Commission on International Religious […]
Ottawa can do a better job of promoting religious freedom — and all human rights — without an Office of Religious Freedom thestar.com Feb. 26, 2016 Blair Gable / Blair Gable Office of Religious Freedom Ambassador Andrew Bennett’s term will expire in March. By: Bruce Ryder and Luka Ryder-Bunting […]
Source: Economist BY M.D. AND ERASMUS | OTTAWA SHOULD Western democracies make the defence of religious freedom around the world a separate, fenced-off part of their foreign policy? Or is […]
Share on Facebook Charles C. Haynes Thursday, February 4, 2016 Charles C. Haynes is vice president of the Newseum Institute and founding director of the Religious Freedom Center. E-mail: chaynes@newseum.org; Twitter: @hayneschaynes. At a historic gathering in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Jan. 27, more than 300 Muslim leaders—including many of […]
detroitnews.com: I am an ordinary American Muslim. I moved to the United States about 20 years ago. My husband came here for his medical training. After spending some years in the U.S., we decided to stay in this country, not for money or lifestyle — but for its religious freedom. […]
Equality and Human Rights Commission tells Belz sect its ruling that women could not drive their children to its schools in North London is illegal Source: The Guardian By Jane […]
Equality and Human Rights Commission tells Belz sect its ruling that women could not drive their children to its schools in North London is illegal Source: The Guardian By Jane […]
JOHN KERRY, the American secretary of state, has been in Pakistan over the past couple of days, on a tough assignment. He had to show the proper degree of sympathy over last month’s terrible massacre of schoolchildren by the Pakistani Taliban, and urge his hosts to draw the logical conclusion: […]
Posted: 04/09/2014 10:37 BST Updated: 04/11/2014 10:59 GMT HUFFINGTON POST Four million people are discriminated against in a land of 180 million. The Second Amendment of the constitution is devoted to enshrining the legal basis to do so. Thesecond; a religious ruling as constitutional law. It reads: 1- Short title and commencement. […]
By Rana Tanveer Published: December 27, 2014 THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE LAHORE: A religious organisation has postponed the staging of a protest demonstration in Rabwah by 15 days after district authorities […]
DW: The Egyptian constitution was approved by in a referendum. It is a revised version of what deposed President Mohammed Morsi signed a year ago after a similar referendum.What has changed regarding the relationship between the state and religion? Jörn Thielmann: Some things are the same. Islam is still the […]
By Brian Pellot | Religion News Service, Published: December 31 LONDON — Eight of the 47 countries that hold seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council imprisoned people in 2013 under laws that restrict religious freedom, according to a new report from Human Rights Without Frontiers International, a nonprofit […]
WASHINGTON (RNS) The highest-ranking Muslim in the British government on Friday (Nov. 15) called on Western governments to do more to protect besieged Christian minorities across the world, particularly in […]
Radio Free Europe WASHINGTON — Religious freedom is on the decline in many parts of the world, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department, which calls the trend “worrying.” The 2012 International Religious Freedom Report alsodocuments what it calls “a continued global increase in anti-Semitism.” Secretary of State […]
Forward.com: Indonesian human rights activists are protesting an American Jewish organization’s plans to give Indonesia’s president an award for religious freedom — a freedom that human rights monitors say has […]
Economist: TODAY IS the date when many Christians commemorate Emperor Constantine the Great and his mother Helen, central figures in the late Roman empire’s conversion to Christianity. Historians still argue […]
Source:RADIO FREE EUROPE VIA WASIM SR Ahmadi community members carry a coffin during a funeral ceremony in 2010 for victims of a militant attack on one of the sect’s prayer halls, which killed some 80 people. According to a new report by the U.S. State Department, the religious minority Ahmadis […]
By Krista Kapralos Religion News Service (RNS) A German family seeking asylum in the U.S. so they can home-school their children lost their appeal in federal court on Tuesday (May […]
Source: Indian Express. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to maintain secularism as Bangladesh’s state policy, amid countrywide celebrations Sunday to mark the Bengali New Year, seen by right-wing Islamists as […]