Religious Freedom
March 30, 2021
Thomas Jefferson and the Freedom to Believe
As a 7th grader, I visited the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., where there is a quote in huge letters around the inner...
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Religious Freedom
January 31, 2021
Balancing Public Health and Religious Freedom—Churches and COVID-19
The New York State decision is not going to be the end of the discussion. Other cases are pending. Legislative bodies have...
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Religious Freedom
January 16, 2021
On Religious Freedom Day, Let’s Honor Each Other’s Beliefs
This day reminds us that the right to believe in what we choose is an inherent human right. Whether you’re a Christian,...
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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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Religious Freedom
December 15, 2020
Nigeria: Even Democracies Violate Religious Freedom
The designation holds a special significance. According to Gayle Manchin, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious...
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Religious Freedom
December 7, 2020
Religious Freedom: Why Are We Still Talking About This?
We need to grow up. We need to stop acting like mean girls making fun of our classmates or children fighting over a basketball.
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Religious Freedom
November 26, 2020
Pew Research Study Finds Christians Under Attack
If you live in America you might find this hard to believe. Most people here and in Western countries are accustomed to Christians...
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Religious Freedom
November 18, 2020
Could We Wake Up One Day Without Religious Freedom?
The Pew Research Center just updated its 10-point scale Government Restrictions Index. And it’s depressing: the score has...
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Religious Freedom
October 28, 2020
It’s Religious Freedom Day. Should We Celebrate?
It means something that freedom of religion is grouped with the freedoms of thought and conscience because, over the ages,...
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Religious Freedom
September 6, 2020
What Does a Cathedral on Fire Have To Do With You?
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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Religious Freedom
September 4, 2020
A Bittersweet Anniversary: What Was It With Germany?
Three generations earlier the grandparents of the Germans who affirmed our right to believe had engaged in an attack on a...
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Religious Freedom
September 1, 2020
Religious Freedom in Australia: The Vestiges of Intolerance Resurface
Religious intolerance is an old story in humanity, nearly as old as religion itself. But tolerance is old too: Cyrus the Great,...
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Religious Freedom
August 27, 2020
Will the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Sex Discrimination Affect Religious Freedom?
The case has drawn considerable attention not only because of the fate of plaintiff Gerald Bostock, a Clayton County employee...
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Religious Freedom
July 7, 2020
Does Religious Freedom Have a Place in the Death Chamber?
Watching a condemned person die by hanging was once a public spectacle. Today, that is not the case—there is no entrance...
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Religious Freedom
May 25, 2020
Supreme Court Reviews Scholarships for Religious Schools
The U.S. Supreme Court will shortly decide whether the State of Montana can prevent the use of public funds for any educational...
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Religious Freedom
April 10, 2020
Evolution vs. Religion in Ohio Schools
A bill currently pending in the Ohio state legislature has resulted in statements that, if it becomes law, students would...
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Religious Freedom
April 1, 2020
Contagion of Faith
And now just a few short weeks later, all of us suddenly find ourselves searching for faith elsewhere than where the signs...
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Religious Freedom
March 29, 2020
The Real Deal With Disconnection
A friend of mine who lived among the native Inuits of far Northern Canada told me that if a person in the community, through...
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Religious Freedom
September 3, 2019
Unanswered Questions About Jonestown—Part Four: The Buried Agenda of Leo Ryan
To this day, the assailants that closed in on Ryan’s fallen body and riddled it with rifle and shotgun blasts have not been...
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Religious Freedom
August 23, 2019
UN Devotes New Day to Combatting Anti-Religious Violence
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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Religious Freedom
August 15, 2019
Highlighting the Difference: A Study of Warm Chocolate Chip Cookies
Some smells made customers stay longer. Others had them fleeing the premises. The research also found odors needed to be appropriate—the...
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Religious Freedom
August 3, 2019
Interfaith Courage Awarded at Second Ministerial for Religious Freedom
More than 30 years ago, Ivanir dos Santos began combating racial discrimination and promoting rights of members of minority...
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Religious Freedom
August 3, 2019
Supreme Court Allows Cross to Remain: Did It Establish Religion?
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that a 40-foot-high cross honoring residents of the Maryland town of Bladensburg...
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Religious Freedom
July 24, 2019
Second Ministerial for Religious Freedom Shines a Light on Intolerance and Genocide
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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Religious Freedom
June 25, 2019
Is Freedom of Religion Limitless?
In the weeks prior to the tragic raid, one such demagogue, the notorious convicted felon Rick Ross of the now defunct Cult...
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Religious Freedom
May 29, 2019
Canadian Church Permits Atheist to Remain Minister
Religion is extremely valuable to society, but only when people are free to examine the subject for themselves and draw the...
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Religious Freedom
February 26, 2019
The Quran: Paving the Way in the Land of the Free
The origins of Islam in the U.S. today trace back to one simple concept, one word, three syllables: sla-ve-ry. When Ilhan...
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Religious Freedom
February 22, 2019
U.S. Supreme Court Ignores Religious Freedom in Death Penalty Case
The case seems simple at first. Dominique Hakim Marcelle Ray was convicted in 1995 of the rape and murder of a 15-year old...
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Religious Freedom
February 6, 2019
Religious Status Is for Those Who Help
Reading this recent article about a jailed neo-Nazi trying to hide behind “religious freedom” to protect his hate speech...
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Religious Freedom
February 4, 2019
The Greatest Tradition
Somewhere, thousands of years before Christ, deep in China, a spark was lit. We don’t know if it was a man or a woman but...
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