Freedom of Religion

Articles

• USA: A Group of Progressive Christians Is Pushing Back Against Christian Nationalism
  2 August, by siawi3

  The statement says they believe one’s beliefs shouldn’t alter your standing in society, that government shouldn’t “prefer one religion over another or religion over nonreligion,†and that Christians have an obligation to “speak up and speak out†when their beliefs are used to inspire violence and intimidation.

• India: And Now Politics of Cultural Virginity
  4 November 2009, by siawi2

  THE Hindu Right seems to have found a new agenda to arouse passions through the alleged ‘love jihad’ movement, supposed to have been launched by Muslim fundamentalists, to convert Hindu and Christian women through trickery. It is ironical that there is an uncanny resemblance of the issue and its language with similar ‘abduction’ and conversion campaigns launched by Arya Samaj and other Hindu revivalist bodies in the 1920s in north India, to draw sharper lines between Hindus and Muslims. Seen through the prism of a historical perspective, the dichotomy and falseness of the allegations of the Hindu Right appear more starkly.

• Status of Women & Freedom of Religon or Belief & Traditions
  2 November 2009, by siawi2
  Source: WUNRN http://www.wunrn.com Direct Link to WUNRN Website for Full 87-Page UN Study FRENCH Translation: http://www.wunrn.com/un_study/french.pdf French UN Translation - UN Study on the Status of Women & Freedom of Religon or Belief &  (...)
• Somalia - Christian Woman Who Refused to Wear Veil is Killed
  2 November 2009, by siawi2
  Source: http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/somalia/11061/
  ‘Moderate’ Islamist group had long suspected woman in Puntland was Christian.
  by Simba Tian - October 27, 2009
  NAIROBI, Kenya, Three masked members of a militant Islamist group in  (...)
• Sri Lanka: Church Attacks Surfacing Culture of Rising Intolerence
  16 January 2010, by siawi2
  Sri Lanka:
  Source: The Island, 15 January 2010 ( from SACW, Jan 11-16, 2010)
  by Lynn Ockersz
  At one time the economic performances of the majority of the countries of South East Asia were so exemplary that these countries were appreciatively  (...)
• Attack on Egyptian Coptics kills six
  9 January 2010, by siawi2
  Source: CNN, January 7, 2010
  Egypt: Security forces search for the shooter, government says
  Coptics observe Christmas Day on Thursday
  (CNN) — Shooters opened fire at a gathering outside an eastern Egyptian church, killing six during the  (...)
• Muslim Progressive Voices in support of Swiss votation
  8 December 2009, by siawi2

  The International Quranic Center condemns the phony campaign launched by the extremists who claim to be Muslims, against Switzerland related to the issue of Minarets. The International center considers this campaign to be but a ring in a long chain of events to deepen animosity and mistrust between Muslims and the West.

• Tempête dans un minaret
  8 décembre 2009, par siawi2

  Personne n’a vu venir le succès de la votation suisse en faveur de l’interdiction de nouveaux minarets. Pas même la droite populiste àl’origine de cette initiative. Aujourd’hui, on cherche un responsable. La faute aux élites qui n’ont rien vu venir, ou au peuple qui a exprimé son ras-le-bol ? Aux médias, qui parlent trop de l’islamisme, ou aux intégristes qui en font trop ? Laissons de côté les jugements moraux pour s’interroger sur l’intention, le contexte et la portée de ce vote.

• Copts in wrath following Egypt’s bloodiest Christmas
  9 January 2010, by siawi2
  Naga Hammadi Copts attack
  Source: Al-Masry Al-Youm. Thu, 07/01/2010
  Qena—Seven people have been killed in a drive-by shooting outside a church in Egypt as Christians left a late night mass on the eve of Coptic Christmas.
  Officials said three  (...)
• Pakistan: Une chrétienne pakistanaise condamnée àmort pour blasphème
  11 November 2010, by siawi2
  Source: France 24, 11/11/2010
  La justice pakistanaise vient de condamner àla peine capitale par pendaison une chrétienne coupable de blasphème. Cette sanction est une première dans l’histoire du Pakistan, selon le quotidien britannique Christian  (...)

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