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Thursday September 17, 2009
Cuba • Religious Freedom • Religious Persecution:
Pressure on religious leaders in Cuba has increased significantly over the past year according to a new report by Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). Comprehensive evidence within the document details a sharp rise in religious liberty violations there.Independent church leaders from the fast growing Apostolic Movement have been particularly targeted for harassment, detentions and court summons by the Government.
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Saturday August 8, 2009
Religious Freedom:
Last week the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a district court’s ruling, paving the way for a Santeria priest in Euless, Texas, to resume goat sacrifices as part of religious ceremonies. His lawyer tells the Wall Street Journal why he choose to represent the priest in court.
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Thursday April 23, 2009
Religious Freedom • Vietnam:
In what religious freedom advocates regarded as a breakthrough in Vietnam, authorities granted rare permission to unregistered house church groups to hold a large, public Easter-related service here last night.More than 15,000 people gathered at Tao Dan Stadium.
Leaders of the celebration and religious freedom advocates in Vietnam said the event was significant in that unregistered house churches were allowed to hold a large public celebration. They added that authorities must have felt enough pressure to consider the event less harmful than possible negative publicity from denying permission.
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Monday April 20, 2009
Islam • Religious Freedom • Religious Intolerance • Religious Persecution:
In a surprise move, a Saudi Christian arrested in January for describing his conversion from Islam and criticizing the kingdom’s judiciary on his blog site was released on March 28 with the stipulation that he not travel outside of Saudi Arabia or appear on media.The country’s penalty for “apostasy,” or leaving Islam, is death, although in recent years there have been no known cases of kingdom citizens formally convicted and sentenced with capital punishment for the offense.
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Monday January 5, 2009
Religious Freedom:
A Liberian woman accused of smuggling endangered monkey meat from Africa to New York has failed to persuade a judge that she shouldn’t be prosecuted because she needed the butchered carcasses for religious reasons.
The judge also noted that her claim didn’t address the main point of the criminal charge: That she hadn’t applied for the permits needed to import such exotic foodstuffs and had misled border officials about what she was shipping into the country.
Nothing in her religion, Dearie wrote, “required her to abstain from truthful completion of paperwork.”
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Monday June 30, 2008
Religious Freedom:
A foundation that has sued the military alleging widespread violations of religious freedom is asking the Pentagon to block a Christian cable TV broadcast featuring officers in uniform.The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has raised objections to 20 minutes of the two-hour broadcast of “Carman’s Red, White and Blue Spectacular,” saying the program may violate a prohibition against uniformed officers endorsing a particular religion.
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Wednesday December 19, 2007
Atheism • Religious Freedom:
A foundation that has sued the U.S. military alleging widespread violations of religious freedom said it has evidence showing that soldiers are pressured to adopt fundamentalist Christian beliefs.
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Tuesday September 4, 2007
Islam • Religious Freedom:
The Netherlands is to make a case for the freedom of religion and ideology during the sixth session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this month. Partly initiated by the Netherlands, the EU will hand in a resolution that emphasises the right to apostasy.
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Tuesday May 1, 2007
Religious Freedom:
Two victories by minority religious groups last month are small but significant steps toward leveling the religious-liberty playing field as promised in the First Amendment.
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Wednesday February 28, 2007
Religious Freedom:
Is eating bushmeat protected by religious freedom laws?
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Saturday December 30, 2006
Prison • Religious Freedom:
In a ruling favorable to an inmate who sued after a Virginia prison denied his request for kosher meals, a federal appeals court on Friday upheld a federal law that protects the religious rights of incarcerated people.
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Wednesday December 27, 2006
Religious Freedom:
Case centers on church program for parolees
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Friday November 17, 2006
Religious Freedom:
While some restrictions on religious expression remain in Viernam, members of six officially sanctioned faiths enjoy freedom of religion.
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Wednesday March 29, 2006
Religious Freedom:
ROME, March 29 -- The Afghan convert to Christianity who faced a possible death penalty in his homeland for renouncing Islam has arrived in Italy where he will be granted political asylum, prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said Wednesday.
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Saturday July 30, 2005
Religious Freedom:
A California prison rule requiring male inmates to keep their hair short violated the constitutional rights of an American Indian prisoner, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, citing a recent Supreme Court decision on religious freedom in prison.
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Wednesday July 27, 2005
Religious Freedom:
A Muslim prisoner doesn't have to register as Jewish to eat kosher meals that meet Muslim dietary restrictions, a federal judge has ruled.
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Monday March 21, 2005
Religious Freedom:
2000 law also prohibits communities from zoning out houses of worship
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Friday December 3, 2004
Religious Freedom:
A Georgia prison inmate has won an important court ruling in his bid to wear a yarmulke at all times and be served kosher food.
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Tuesday November 2, 2004
Religious Freedom:
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling this term in a lawsuit brought by prison inmates in Ohio may have far-reaching implications for the future of religious freedom in America.
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Tuesday October 26, 2004
Religious Freedom:
LOS ANGELES A Virginia-based religious rights group has filed a federal lawsuit against the city for its refusal to permit the display of a banner with the phrase "Jews who believe in Jesus."
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Saturday September 18, 2004
Religious Freedom:
If you are Catholic, Muslim, or a member of the Orthodox and Evangelical churches in Eritrea then it seems you can breathe easy.
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Friday September 17, 2004
Religious Freedom:
The Eritrean government has rejected a claim by the US State Department that it violates religious rights and severely restricts freedom of worship for all but four government-sanctioned religions: Orthodox Christians, Muslims, Catholics, and the Evangelical Church of Eritrea.
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Thursday September 16, 2004
Religious Freedom:
Note: The full text of the 2004 International Religious Freedom Report can be found online here.
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Wednesday August 18, 2004
Religious Freedom:
NEW ORLEANS A lawsuit filed after a Messianic Jew was blocked from distributing a religious tract at the University of New Orleans because it might offend some people has been settled.
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Tuesday August 3, 2004
Religious Freedom:
Colombo, Aug 2 - Christian groups are strongly opposing Sri Lanka's move to introduce a bill banning religious conversions, with the Supreme Court also receiving 25 petitions in its favour and 21 against it, placing the government in a tight spot, reports OneWorld.
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- Christian Convert Arrives in Italy After Fleeing Afghanistan
- Evidence supports widespread violations of religious freedom in US military, soldier says
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