par Liberte Religieuse | 29, Juin, 2007 | News
A court June 26 backed Turkey’s long-held position that the Istanbul-based Orthodox Patriarch is only the head of the city’s tiny Greek Orthodox community and not the spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians. The decision has...
par Liberte Religieuse | 28, Juin, 2007 | News
Christianity remains the main religion in Australia, but Hinduism and Buddhism are growing at a greater rate. Almost 12.7 million Australians declared they were Christian in the 2006 census, up from 12.6 million in 1996. But as a proportion of the population,...
par Liberte Religieuse | 27, Juin, 2007 | News
Black and Asian clergy members are unlikely to reach high office in the Church of England and minorities are sometimes marginalized in parish churches, an internal review will show, a newspaper reported June 17. According to the Sunday Telegraph, the report says...
par Liberte Religieuse | 26, Juin, 2007 | News
In recent years, Confucianism has been making a steady comeback in China. After decades of effort to destroy the ideology and its institutions, even the Communist party-state has « endorsed » Confucian ideas and drawn on them in its political slogans. Chinese people...
par Liberte Religieuse | 25, Juin, 2007 | News
A Bucharest court decided on June 18 that a decision made by the main anti-discrimination body in Romania on removing religious symbols from schools was well grounded, thus giving green light to moves that would see such symbols gone from Romanian schools. The...
par Liberte Religieuse | 24, Juin, 2007 | News
A U.N. special rapporteur on religious freedom says British anti-terrorist laws target Muslims, undermining human rights. The independent rapporteur, Asma Jahangir, voiced her concern June 15 as she wrapped up an 11-day visit to Britain. Although the nation possesses...
par Liberte Religieuse | 3, Juin, 2007 | News
At least 4,000 Christians from across India courted arrest in New Delhi May 29 in protest against the “silence” of the federal government on increasing anti-Christian attacks. At a rally, “Stop Violence on Christians”, held at Jantar Mantar near Parliament, Christian...
par Liberte Religieuse | 1, Juin, 2007 | News
Court to rule in test case for religious freedom in Muslim MalaysiaMalaysia’s highest court is to rule on May 30 whether a Muslim woman has the right to convert to another religion in a high-profile case seen as a test of religious freedom in the Muslim-majority...
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