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Friday July 30, 2004
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Though officially illegal, the capital's last Messianic Youth Ministry continues to recruit local Jewish teens
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Saturday July 24, 2004
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Ruling To Disappoint Cherokee Indian Inmate
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Friday July 16, 2004
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MIAMI, Florida, USA, July 16, 2004 — A court in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has ruled in favour of two Christian evangelists who appealed their conviction last year of violating Brazil’s “hate crime” law. The landmark case involving the distribution of gospel tracts to Afro-Brazilian spiritists is the first to test a federal law declaring it a crime to “practice, induce, or incite discrimination” against members of another religion.
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Friday July 2, 2004
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California prison officials have been barred by a Sacramento federal judge from imposing discipline or denying sentence reductions based on Muslim inmates' half-inch beards and attendance at religious services.
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Wednesday June 16, 2004
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SALT LAKE CITY — Inmate Phillip Leishman has sued state Corrections Department officials for prohibiting him from having wooden tablets bearing mystical symbols — runes that he says are used in the practice of his pagan religion.
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Tuesday June 1, 2004
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Friday May 14, 2004
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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent federal agency, says the situation for religious freedom around the world is getting worse, not better.
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Wednesday May 12, 2004
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STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union, perhaps better known for helping keep religion out of the classroom, came to the defense of a high school graduate whose yearbook entry was censored because it contained a biblical verse.
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Monday April 26, 2004
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Strayhorn argues that the group doesn't qualify because it doesn't worship a higher power.
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Wednesday March 31, 2004
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A week ago, a crowd of Russian Orthodox believers filled a downtown Moscow square to protest the construction of a Hare Krishna temple on the outskirts of the capital. Last Friday, a Moscow district court ruled to ban a Jehovah’s Witnesses community. In its International Religious Freedom Report for 2003, the U.S. State Department acknowledged that religious intolerance in Russia is slowly being curbed, at least on the state level. It’s still questionable, however, as to how many steps forward this process has gone and how many backwards. With Russian Orthodox Christianity as the historically predominant faith, religion has overlapped into national identity for many Russians. Russian citizens that worship differently, along with foreign missionaries, often have to struggle against ignorance, prejudice, administrative pressure and media harassment. Fortunately, their faith itself is a source of hope.
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Monday January 19, 2004
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Want to put religious huts on montreal property. Ruling could determine whether private contracts can override the charter and human-rights legislation.
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Monday January 12, 2004
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Washington is bureaucratizing the cause of human rights -- for both good and ill, as one can see in the U.S. State Department's latest annual report on worldwide religious freedom, released in the latter half of December. Bureaucracies can be superb at collecting information, and simply by publishing catalogues of specific abuses they deter abusers and encourage victims. But government reports, produced by compromises between bureaucratic factions, are less adept at creative analysis. They tend to fall back on standard formulas, repeating them every year rather than providing new insights into the changing dynamics of repression. They often flinch from telling hard truths.
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Wednesday December 24, 2003
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The Kenya government has come under criticism from the US State Department for its treatment of members of the banned Mungiki sect in a new worldwide survey that says that East Africans enjoy greater religious freedom than much of the world's population.
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Thursday December 18, 2003
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WASHINGTON (AP)--A State Department report released Thursday said Saudi Arabia continues to impose strict limitations on religious freedoms. It also criticized Israel and several European allies for varying degrees of religious intolerance.
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Monday November 24, 2003
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Voters in Zurich are set to decide on controversial new laws that would lead to the official recognition of non-Christian faiths, including Islam. But the proposals are being challenged by politicians from the Right, who have been accused of running an inflammatory campaign.
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Saturday November 8, 2003
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A federal appeals court Friday declared unconstitutional a 3-year-old law that gives inmates the right to gather for worship and follow religious dietary practices.
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Thursday September 4, 2003
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LOUISVILLE (AP) -- A federal judge ruled that a library's dress code that prevented a worker from wearing a necklace with a cross pendant was an unconstitutional violation of free-speech rights.
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Saturday August 30, 2003
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A teacher's aide who was suspended without pay in April for wearing a cross necklace in violation of a school agency's ban on religious emblems will keep her job under a federal court settlement reached Thursday.
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Tuesday August 26, 2003
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DALLAS (AP) - Federal officials said Monday they have sued Bombardier Aerospace Corp., accusing the company of civil rights violations in the firing of a Mormon employee.
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Wednesday July 16, 2003
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PRIMA News Agency (Russia), July 14, 2003
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Tuesday May 13, 2003
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Associated Press, May 12, 2003
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Friday April 11, 2003
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AP, Apr. 11, 2003
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Sunday March 30, 2003
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Associated Press, Mar. 22, 2003
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Wednesday March 19, 2003
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Associated Press, Mar. 18, 2003
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Saturday March 15, 2003
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Palm Beach Post, Mar. 14, 2003 (Opinion)
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