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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Religious Freedom</title>
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		<title>Pentagon asked to block Christian broadcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21717/"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/pentagon.jpg" alt="Pentagon" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;"></a> 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.<br /><br />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.]]></description>
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		<title>Evidence supports widespread violations of religious freedom in US military, soldier says</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Netherlands Places Apostasy on International Agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Religious equality as an article of faith</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18124/religious-freedom</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 13:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Making a case for sacred meat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Is eating bushmeat protected by religious freedom laws?]]></description>
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		<title>Judges Uphold Law on Inmate Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Prison]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Supreme Court to tackle religious freedom law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Case centers on church program for parolees
When a pastor set up a rehabilitation program for prison parolees across the street from his church, the City of Sinton stepped in to stop it.
Now, nearly eight years after then-Gov. George W. Bush endorsed a law to curtail government limits on religious practices, the city&#8217;s action is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once shunned, Vietnam&#8217;s religious faithful pack churches and temples</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While some restrictions on religious expression remain in Viernam, members of six officially sanctioned faiths enjoy freedom of religion.]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Convert Arrives in Italy After Fleeing Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME, March 29 &#8212; 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.
Berlusconi said the man, Abdul Rahman, is in the hands of the country&#8217;s Interior Ministry, which is in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court rules against prison hair policy</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11851/court-rules-against-prison-hair-policy</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected prison officials&#8217; claims that a three-inch [...]]]></description>
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