Topic: Religious Freedom And Discrimination
A coalition of US Muslims launched a Web-based campaign Monday aimed at countering what they called a rising tide of anti-Islamic sentiment and to show themselves as Americans who love their country. The group launched a website and online video featuring brief ...
Religious minorities in Indonesia pushing back against Islamic hard-liners, violenceTired of government inaction, Christians and other religious minorities in Indonesia are pushing back against rising violence by Islamic hard-liners. Christians were warned last week against worshipping on a field that houses a ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Several hundred Indonesians rallied in Jakarta on Sunday demanding that the president do more to protect freedom of religion and to punish hardline Muslim groups which have attacked minority faiths. The protest reflects growing public alarm over recent attacks ...
President Barack Obama has defended controversial plans to build a mosque near the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, saying US commitment to religious freedom "must be unshakable." "As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims ...
State Department sending ground zero mosque imam to discuss religious tolerance in Middle EastThe State Department says it's sending the imam behind controversial plans for a mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks on a religious outreach trip to the Middle ...
Days before French lawmakers are due to vote on a bill that would make it illegal for Muslim women to wear full veils in public, a US poll has found that a majority of Europeans back such a ban while Americans reject ...
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday denounced European "intolerance" towards the Islamic veil, as France and Belgium move towards banning the burqa in public. "We think this is an example of the intolerance that exists in Europe" regarding Muslims, Mottaki told ...
The EU parliament on Thursday called on Pakistan to guarantee minority rights, claiming that its blasphemy laws could be used to murder members of political, racial and religious minorities. In a resolution adopted in Strasbourg, the assembled Euro MPs expressed "deep concern" ...
Lawmakers in Australia's most populous state voted against banning the burqa Thursday, with one accusing the Christian MP who moved the bill of stigmatising Muslims. Fred Nile, of the right-wing Christian Democrats Party, urged the New South Wales parliament to vote in ...
PARIS (Reuters) - France's top legal advisory body has once again raised questions over the legal viability of a bill to ban full Muslim veils in public, just days before it is put before the cabinet. The government is expected to present ...
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Iraqi Christians Celebrate Christmas in Baghdad
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First Freedom First - No Religious Discrimination ...
Roberta Stewart talks about her challenges with religious discrimination. The ...2008-07-29 -
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Roberta Stewart talks about fighting religious discrimination during the First ...2008-07-29 -
LDS Apostle: Religious Freedom Under Attack
October 13,2009 on KSL TV (NBC): Elder Dallin H ...2009-10-14
