par Liberte Religieuse | 10, Juil, 2007 | News
The globalization of the economy and communication should be matched by the globalization of human rights, says the Holy See. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi made this comment in a recent address to the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva. « Like a young tree...
par Liberte Religieuse | 9, Juil, 2007 | News
Roman Catholic leaders are demanding that the new UK prime minister repeal the Act of Settlement. British Roman Catholics are calling for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to include repealing the Act of Settlement on his list of sweeping government reforms. The act bars...
par Liberte Religieuse | 8, Juil, 2007 | News
Parents who sued the Norwegian state 10 years ago over mandatory religious classes in public schools could finally claim victory on June 29. The European Court of Human Rights narrowly ruled in their favour. The court in Strasbourg ruled that Norway’s so-called...
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...
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