Decrying situation of Chinese Catholics, cardinal calls for dialogue
Over the past five years, relations between the government of China and the Catholic Church unfortunately have been marked by “misunderstandings, accusations” and new “stumbling blocks” to religious...
View ArticleCourt clears path for health lawsuit; Bible publisher wins injunction
(CNS) The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Nov. 26 for a federal appeals court to take up a Christian college’s challenge to the Affordable Care Act, reopening one of several lawsuits filed by...
View ArticleUS bishops promote religious freedom through website
(The Marquette Tribune) The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has started a new website called “First American Freedom” that outlines how certain government policies have impeded on Catholic...
View ArticleReligious freedom: Not just for the religious
(RNS) Atheists, humanists and other nonreligious people face discrimination and persecution in many parts of the world, according to “Freedom of Thought 2012,” a report released this week by the...
View ArticleMost Americans think religious freedom fast declining in US
(Christian Post) Millions of American adults, particularly Protestants and evangelicals, feel religious freedoms have grown worse in the last decade in the United States, and foresee further...
View ArticleVerdict on free speech activist sparks anger
(UCA News) Activists today protested the conviction of reproductive health activist Carlos Celdran yesterday on charges of offending religious feelings. “This is a setback for free speech in the...
View ArticleFrance: Flash mob for religious freedom
(ICN) One person in two lives in a country where religious freedom is not respected. More than 200 million Christians suffer grave restrictions and sometimes even risk their lives to practice their...
View ArticleWill the Catholic bishops decide how you die or whether you live?
(Truth Out) What happens when religious institutions get to manage public funds, absorb secular hospitals, and put theology above medical science and individual patient conscience? Religious freedom...
View ArticleState Dept. report says countries have repressed religious freedom with laws
(NYT) Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents, the State Department said on Monday in an annual...
View ArticlePro-life Oklahoma Democrat turns her attention to religious freedom
(CNS) Oklahoma State Rep. Rebecca Hamilton sees no conflict between her pro-life views as a Catholic and being a stalwart Democrat who has served 18 years in the state Legislature. Hamilton, who...
View ArticleUS Catholics highlight religious freedom for Independence Day
(Ecumenical News) Ahead of U.S. Independence Day celebrations on July 4, American Catholics are engaged in highlighting religious freedom issues faced in the United States and around the world. The...
View ArticleCatholics urged to speak truth ‘with love’ in religious freedom fight
(CNS) As people of faith and as Americans, the nation’s Catholics should kneel in prayer and also stand in defense of religious freedom, Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl said July 4 during the...
View ArticleJoan Frawley Desmond: Who speaks for Catholics in the military on religious...
(NC Register) The U.S. bishops have warned that the religious freedom of Catholics and Church institutions is under threat, so recent headlines asserting similar problems in the military are often...
View ArticleResolution on contraceptive coverage getting closer for religious employers
(Washington Times) Religiously devout employers who object to insuring contraceptives for their employees under President Obama’s new health care law are closer to resolving — either through compromise...
View ArticleReligious freedom is about more than religion
(Wall Street Journal) A common theory about freedom of religion suggests that such a value is grounded in a modus vivendi, or compromise: People agree to respect each other’s freedom in order to avoid...
View ArticleTony Perkins: Censoring Eisenhower and religious freedom in the military
(Christian Post) If President Eisenhower were alive today, the five-star general may be shocked to know that his own speeches are too offensive to be quoted in the military he used to command. A...
View ArticleMuslim leader calls on US, Obama to stop ignoring Saudi Arabia’s religious...
(Christian Post) Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, vice chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), called on the State Department to reconsider Saudi Arabia’s religious...
View ArticleObama weak on religious freedom? USCIRF chair, experts call for renewed effort
(Christian Post) In a bipartisan op-ed in the Washington Post, Robert P. George, Republican chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), and Democratic Vice...
View ArticleNina Shea: Egypt’s new draft Constitution undermines religious freedom
(Christian Post) Egypt’s 2012 constitution, drafted and adopted under President Morsi, reflected the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist goals, giving prominence to Sunni sharia and restricting the rights of...
View ArticleHuman rights, religious freedom called necessary to lasting peace
(CNS) Retired Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, back from a recent trip to Jordan, said four essential elements to any long-range peace deal in the Middle East are human rights, religious...
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