Mostly Muslim Turkey, which is seeking to join the European Union, has small Christian and Jewish communities. The EU has made improved rights for the religious groups a condition for membership. Turkey’s existing constitution guarantees religious freedom, but when it comes to minority religions the country has long been criticized for restricting the training of [...]
Praying Talk about it ST. PAUL — A controversial program using Christian teachings to try to turn around the lives of hundreds of Minnesota prison inmates is working, according to a new report from the Department of Corrections. Participants in the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, which operates at the Minnesota women’s prison in Shakopee and at [...]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A controversial program using Christian teachings to try to turn around the lives of hundreds of Minnesota prison inmates is working, according to a new report from the Department of Corrections. Participants in the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, which operates at the Minnesota women’s prison in Shakopee and at a men’s [...]
A mandatory Quebec school program focusing on the historical significance of various religions and creeds does not harm the religious freedoms of parents and their children, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday. Resolving an important test of Charter of Rights values, the Court firmly sided with the province and a school board whose [...]
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To the disappointment of many on this blog Newsweek has finally broken the unwritten rule of silence against printing Islamic terrorist stories by the mainstream press and told the truth about the terror and murder being practiced worldwide against Christians. Some on this blog continually defend such atrocities by comparing these heinous acts to similar [...]
by Rupa Shenoy, Minnesota Public Radio LISTEN Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this audio onto your web page. Audio player code:iframe title=”minnesota_general_features_2012_02_13_prisonministry_20120213_64s_player” type=”text/html” width=”319″ height=”83″ src=”http://minnesota.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/syndicate.php?name=minnesota/general/features/2012/02/13/prisonministry_20120213_64″ marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ frameborder=”0″ allowFullScreen/iframe St. Paul, Minn. — A controversial program using Christian teachings to try turn around the lives of hundreds of Minnesota prison inmates [...]
Some Christians get excited when they discover that I’m half Indian or that I studied Islam in college. They’ll sometimes ask me to talk about how Christianity compares to other faiths. But I’ve learned that what they mean to say is: “Great, you’ve read books I’d never own so you can tell us how awful [...]
Some Christians get excited when they discover that I’m half Indian or that I studied Islam in college. They’ll sometimes ask me to talk about how Christianity compares to other faiths. But I’ve learned that what they mean to say is: “Great, you’ve read books I’d never own so you can tell us how awful [...]
By Rev. Chris Arch and Rev. Michael Phillips —- Did you hear the one about the Catholic priest and evangelical pastor who decided to write an article together? The question almost sounds like the start of another corny faith-based joke. Far from being funny, this statement describes our desire to write an article showing [...]
Washington, DC — “We don’t need you, so shut up!” That’s the message the Obama administration has sent loud and clear to America’s Roman Catholics. And it’s a message now being sent to U.S. military chaplains to the detriment of our Armed Forces. During World War II, the War Department and the Department of the [...]
Like many of you, I’ve been following the fall-out over the Obama Administration’s decision not to exempt large Catholic employers (hospitals, colleges, social service agencies) from provisions in the new health care laws requiring that enterprises of their scale provide insurance that covers contraceptives. You don’t have to agree with Humanae Vitae to understand why [...]
This Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, and the Harvard University Institute of Politics marked the occasion last week with the event “Egypt: From Tahrir Square to Today.” The panel, which included Harvard Kennedy School Professor Tarek Masoud and journalist Mona Eltahawy, praised the new self-determination of the Egyptian people and expressed [...]
Contact: Emily Fuentes, Open Doors USA, 949-413-6721, EmilyF@odusa.org SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 8, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ — Sen. Rick Santorum issued a press release on Friday, February 3, noting he was the first and only candidate to sign the Presidential Pledge for Religious Freedom. The Presidential Pledge for Religious Freedom was drafted by Open Doors USA and [...]
Three bishops are calling for the Church of England to defend the freedom of Christians to wear a cross in public, and to resist the growing restrictions on religious liberty in the UK. The bishops are backing a motion at the General Synod criticising the ‘silencing’ of symbols and other visual displays of Christianity in [...]
Healing hands: should religious groups be allowed to claim miracle cures? Imagine living in a country governed by such authoritarian literalists that it was forbidden to say “God heals”, on the basis that, technically speaking, it isn’t true. Well, you don’t have to imagine. If you are reading this blog from within Britain, then you [...]
Posted: February 5Updated: Today at 10:07 PM Prayer Caucus attacks others’ religious freedom The Maine Prayer Caucus, affiliated with Pray USA, misrepresents its goals in the article “LePage, top Republicans form Prayer Caucus,” (Jan. 18). The caucus says its goal is simply to “preserve the Judeo-Christian heritage of our nation and protect American religious liberty.” [...]
The Associated Press Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 | 3:33 a.m. Far-right Austrian politicians were widely criticized Monday for comparing protests against a fancy ball that attracts extremists to the Nazis’ persecution of Jews. Vienna’s Jewish community demanded an investigation into the remarks but the Freedom Pary insisted no harm was meant. The comments by Freedom [...]
What is the place of religious assemblies in public schools during the school day? The question is at the heart of a freedom-of-religion complaint against Jackson County Schools. (The Huntsville Times/Kay Campbell) SCOTTSBORO, Alabama –A parent’s complaint about religious assemblies during the school day brought more than 100 people supporting the assemblies to a called [...]
Austrian President Heinz Fischer is dropping plans to grant a prestigious award to far-right Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache, in the wake of Strache’s anti-Semitic remarks uttered at a gala ball in Vienna last week. “We are the new Jews,” Strache was overheard saying in response to protesters who heckled guests arriving at the event [...]
Tweet Text smaller Text bigger Egyptian artists ignited the Cairo uprising last year, and they’ve kept the coals turned up under the current military regime. Far from drifting into the shadows and returning to their former occupations as graphic artists or portrait painters, many are feeling the burden and responsibility to follow through to the [...]
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) leader Heinz-Christian Strache (R) gives a thumbs-up as he celebrates with supporters after provincial elections in Vienna, October 10, 2010.
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The Trinity Prep boys basketball team took the lead for good in the second quarter as it defeated host Freedom Christian-Fair Oaks, 49-42, in Northern Pacific Athletic Conference action Friday night at Lord’s Gym in Roseville. Jordan Franklin had 33 points, with 5 for 6 free-throw shooting and four steals, and Michael Rowles turned in [...]
Jon Rzepecki | The Grand Rapids Press, January 27, 2012 7:54 p.m. Sarah Grochowalski scored a buzzer-beating layup to lead Hudsonville Homeschool in a 34-32 victory over Hudsonville Freedom Christian in girls basketball action Friday in Hudsonville. Grochowalski finished with 10 points. Freedom Christian led 29-22 at the end of the third quarter, but failed [...]
Centuries later, those people cannot pray in the name of Jesus, but Muslims can bow by the thousands in our capital and pray to their god. Well-meaning people have created a society where anything goes unless it is Christian or based upon biblical values. We don’t want to offend anyone, so it has become unconstitutional [...]
26 January 2012 Last updated at 04:52 ET The former cinema in Bath Street was built 60 years ago but since closing had fallen into disrepair A Christian group in Jersey is set to buy a former cinema to turn it into a community centre. The former Odeon cinema, on the corner of Bath Street, [...]
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you. Jeremiah 1:5 OUR KISS OF DEATH! Obama and his henchman have declared WAR on the Catholic Church, and in so, attacking Christians throughout our nation. Our Judeo-Christian freedom of religion [...]
America has a very long tradition of freedom. We cherish these freedoms like, the freedom of speech, freedom of religion and until recently, freedom of choice. I will admit right up front that I voted for President Obama because, like many, I believed we needed change. Well I now feel I was duped and his [...]
… and it’s not just in Virginia. In Alaska, too, securing legal protections for gayfolk may prevent the free exercise of religion. From The Anchorage Daily News: A national conservative Christian legal group says the gay rights initiative on Anchorage’s April 3 city election ballot, coupled with existing Anchorage discrimination law, undercuts religious liberty. … [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 12–> Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos sent an email Friday assuring students and others the school doesn’t want to limit religious freedom. But at least one campus Christian group claims that’s exactly what Vanderbilt’s nondiscrimination policy does, and its leader said the group will move off campus at the end of the [...]
Enlarge Joe Raedle/Getty Images People pray during the beginning of the South Carolina Faith and Freedom Coalition event where Republican presidential candidates addressed the crowd on Jan. 16, 2012 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The presidential candidates continue to campaign for votes in South Carolina ahead of the primary on Jan. 21. Joe Raedle/Getty Images [...]
Home Church 19/01/2012 11.54.30 Pope: Religious freedom most American of freedoms The attempts of current cultural trends to curtail the right to religious freedom is a threat not only to “ Christian faith, but also to humanity itself”, said Pope Benedict XVI Thursday, in his address to US bishops from Region’s IV-VI currently on their Ad [...]
Marisa Streett scored 26 points and Rachel Nelson had 17 points, a career high, to lead the Trinity Prep girls basketball team to a Northern Pacific Athletic Conference win over Freedom Christian-Fair Oaks Tuesday night at Crosswalk Community Church in Napa. Streett had seven steals and six assists for Trinity Prep (11-3 overall, 2-0 NPAC), [...]
He was again detained in 2008, for more than seven months by the Taliban in Afghanistan while he and two Afghan colleagues were researching the history of U.S. involvement in the country for a book. Rhode shared a Pulitzer Prize with others in a New York Times team in April 2009 for the paper’s “masterful, [...]
Pagans, atheists, Christians do battle Published 9:02am Monday, January 16, 2012 Column: Charles C. Haynes, Inside the First Amendment Religious freedom is hugely popular in America — until, of course, it’s applied to unpopular groups. Charles Haynes Consider North Windy Ridge Intermediate School in Buncombe County, N.C. In December, school officials arranged for students to [...]
Religious freedom is hugely popular in America – until, of course, it’s applied to unpopular groups. Consider North Windy Ridge Intermediate School in Buncombe County, N.C. In December, school officials arranged for students to come by the office during break to pick up Bibles donated by the Gideons. In the view of many people in [...]
By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) A coalition of nearly 40 religious leaders has published an open letter that seeks to recast the battle against same-sex marriage as a fight on behalf of religious freedom. The religious leaders, predominantly from conservative Christian churches and Orthodox Judaism, say their concern is not that legalizing gay [...]
e-mail this to a friend printable version » 01/13/2012 09:52CHINAChristian activist and writer Yu Jie flees to the U.S.by Paul HongHe is the author of a book against Wen Jiabao, accused of being a hypocrite, “the beautiful face of the regime”, which does not keep any promises. The awarding of the Nobel to Liu Xiaobo [...]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Focus has banded together with two Christian organizations, Crown Financial Ministries and Finicity, to bring a message of freedom and hope to millions of families trapped in cycles of financial disorder. Primarily, the groups will make Crown Mvelopes® and Crown MoneyLife® Coaching available nationwide through [...]
LUCKY SEVERSON (Correspondent): This is Pyongyang, the capitol of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and this is the way the regime wants you to see life in North Korea, as a utopian paradise. It’s not the way Melanie Kirkpatrick, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute sees North Korea. She’s about to publish [...]
REPORTING FROM CAIRO — Christian billionaire Naguib Sawiris is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 14 after he was charged Monday with “blasphemy and insulting Islam” by Cairo prosecutors, state newspaper Al Ahram quoted judiciary sources as saying on its website. The telecommunications mogul, who also heads the secular Free Egyptians political party, is charged [...]
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“The essential issue in this race is freedom,” said Senator Rick Santorum in a triumphant speech on the eve of his strong second-place showing in the Iowa caucus. But what kind of freedom is Santorum talking about? Reason.tv caught up with Santorum at a campaign stop at Des Moines Christian Assembly in Urbandale, Iowa, where [...]
Here’s a sampling of recent news from around the world that you may have missed. In Egypt, tens of thousands of Coptic Christians – who make up 10 per cent of the population – have fled the country. The so-called Arab Spring has not been good news for them. In October, 27 people died when [...]
From Here Back Again By Jim Coufal (Cazenovia, NY – Jan. 2012) My friend the Cazenovia Curmudgeon (Don Krueger) quoted Lord Balfour as saying, “…so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth,” then Don went on to point out the inconsistencies told by Christmas story enthusiasts; in other words by Christian believers. [...]
The pressure on German President Christian Wulff to resign has been mounting in recent days. But in a highly anticipated television appearance on Wednesday evening, the head of state made it clear that he had no intention of stepping down. During a joint interview with the German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF, Wulff admitted that [...]
Welcome to a Christians-free Middle East. Arab Christianity is near its extinction everywhere. “Christianity in Iraq could be eradicated in our lifetime, partially as a result of the US troop withdrawal,” declared Leonard Leo, chairman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. Up to 900,000 Christians already fled the country since 2003, according [...]
4 January 2012 Last updated at 09:34 ET Mr Wulff left an angry voicemail on the phone of Bild newspaper’s chief editor Germany’s President Christian Wulff, under pressure for his conduct over a home loan, is due to answer questions about the affair on national TV. He has faced calls to resign after it emerged [...]