
Religious Freedom
January 9, 2021
Too Religious? Not Enough? Either Way, Governments Harass Women
Enforcing lack of religious dress is intolerant in its own right, and most often happens in democracies. “Europe had the...
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January 9, 2021
Enforcing lack of religious dress is intolerant in its own right, and most often happens in democracies. “Europe had the...
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December 15, 2020
The designation holds a special significance. According to Gayle Manchin, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious...
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November 18, 2020
The Pew Research Center just updated its 10-point scale Government Restrictions Index. And it’s depressing: the score has...
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November 9, 2020
Don’t be an accomplice. At the very least, step away. Even better, write a letter. Tell the editor what the freedoms above...
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October 28, 2020
It means something that freedom of religion is grouped with the freedoms of thought and conscience because, over the ages,...
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September 6, 2020
It was April 2019, the beginning of Easter celebrations in France. That’s when, to the world’s horror, the 850-year-old...
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September 1, 2019
There is nothing more personal—and, for many of us, there is nothing more precious—than the right to live as we believe...
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August 23, 2019
There’s a day that now comes right after the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism. Because...
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August 3, 2019
More than 30 years ago, Ivanir dos Santos began combating racial discrimination and promoting rights of members of minority...
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July 24, 2019
It was a big event: on its final day, a participant reported, “Close to 900 members of civil society and religious groups...
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March 5, 2019
Yes, something is changing: the rest of us, who have had to live with invasions of privacy and out-of-control attacks, are...
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February 9, 2019
Like setting your neighbor’s apartment on fire, it worked; but as historian Dan Carlin points out in his Blueprint for Armageddon...
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January 17, 2019
Can it be that governments and commercial interests have knowingly used the lunatics who reside at the fringe of our society...
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December 19, 2018
On September 11, 2001, all that changed. As the nation focused on the War on Terrorism, religious freedom was no longer a...
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October 6, 2018
On the first day of a four-part Open House on Religions of the World, I fulfilled my duty as a Jew. Are you surprised? Well,...
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April 18, 2018
A religion is bad because of the horrible things done in its name. Right? That’s like saying that the institution of marriage...
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April 13, 2018
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as...
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February 3, 2018
The demise of the newspaper is forcing many to have to figure out how to set up shop themselves; whether through online outlets,...
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December 18, 2017
Libel means false accusation. For centuries, a particularly vicious libel has been leveled at Jews: that they sacrificed Christian...
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December 12, 2017
Religion is like marriage: there’s so much to criticize about it, yet people still want to tie the knot. Marriage is designed...
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