par Liberte Religieuse | 21, Juil, 2007 | News
Muslims have apologized for attacking a church last month in Pakistan’s Punjab region, but they offered no compensation for injuring Christians and damaging the building. In addition to wounding seven Christians and destroying books at the Salvation Army church in...
par Liberte Religieuse | 19, Juil, 2007 | News
Kyrgyzstan will tighten regulation and surveillance of religious groups in largely Muslim Central Asian nation, a government official said July 12, citing concerns about extremist groups. More than 2100 religious organizations are currently registered with...
par Liberte Religieuse | 18, Juil, 2007 | News
States participating Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) should work to ensure that crack-downs legitimate human rights concerns come to an end, participants agreed at an OSCE conference concluded July 13. « Governments must open their eyes to...
par Liberte Religieuse | 17, Juil, 2007 | News
In their struggle against what has been termed prejudice or even outright persecution, many in Egypt’s Christian Copt community seem to have found a sanctuary in the church, where as well as praying they can also vent their rage. In a typical Wednesday sermon at...
par Liberte Religieuse | 16, Juil, 2007 | News
Two ministers in China’s unrecognized Protestant church have been sentenced to one year each in a labor camp on charges of using an « evil cult » to obstruct the law, a U.S. monitoring group said July 9. The two men were detained on June 15 along with four other...
par Liberte Religieuse | 15, Juil, 2007 | News
Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin refused to sign the « Law on religious cults and their constituent structures » and returned it to parliament for improvement, Interfax was told on June 28 in the legislature of the republic. « The basic statement of the head of...
par Liberte Religieuse | 14, Juil, 2007 | News
An Egyptian court accepted an appeal July 1 from 45 Copts who were denied the right to reclaim their religious identities after they decided to convert back to Christianity from Islam, a lawyer and court officials said. A lower administrative court ruled against the...
par Liberte Religieuse | 13, Juil, 2007 | News
If Tajikistan’s parliament, the Majlisi Oli, adopts the current version of the proposed new Religion Law, no non-Islamic religious communities will be likely to be able to gain legal status, while the number of mosques allowed to operate will be severely...
par Liberte Religieuse | 12, Juil, 2007 | News
Chris Atkins will help bring peace-of-mind to the soldiers fighting on the front lines in Iraq. As a non-combat army social worker, Atkins will be helping soldiers in Iraq cope with combat stress such as anger, marital problems, nervousness, family separation, and...
par Liberte Religieuse | 11, Juil, 2007 | News
A hallmark of the Baptist tradition has been freedom of religious belief and practice from interference by government. But there is wide disagreement on how that plays out in the public arena on issues like school prayer, religious displays in public places and...
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