Topic: Religious Freedom And Discrimination
MOBILE, Ala (Reuters) - A former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who was famously booted from his post for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from a state courthouse said on Tuesday he would run again for his old job.Roy Moore, ...
A senior Indian police officer who accused Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi of complicity in the massacre of Muslims during the 2002 riots was arrested on Friday, his lawyer said.Sanjeev Bhatt, who has been locked in a confrontation with Modi, was arrested ...
International experts will be invited to attend a conference in the United States this year on the free expression of religious beliefs, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Friday."Later this year, the United States intends to invite relevant experts from around ...
A group of underground Chinese Christian churches has issued a defiant petition to the country's parliament demanding respect for their constitutional right to freedom of religion.The petition -- signed by the pastors of 17 top unregistered churches -- was addressed to parliamentary ...
A US commission called Thursday for Egypt to be put on a blacklist for lack of religious freedom, saying attacks on Coptic Christians and other minorities have worsened despite political changes.In an annual report, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom said ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday urged a broad role for religious minorities and women in a changing Middle East, warning that a wave of democratic uprisings could be "hijacked"."During recent protests, women and men marched together in Tunis and ...
Niqabs, the full-face veils worn by conservative Muslim women, are not required by Islam but banning them by law is an affront to liberty, radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said Thursday.His remarks come in response to a draconian new law in France, ...
The US Justice Department has sued the state of California in defense of a Sikh prisoner's right to practice his religion, including by not cutting his beard.Backing legal action taken on inmate Sukhjinder S. Basra's behalf, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez ...
Canadian leaders expressed horror Wednesday over the assassination of Pakistani Catholic government minister Shahbaz Bhatti, and called for his killers to be brought to justice.Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and opposition Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff expressed "shock and outrage and anger" in ...
The United States on Tuesday condemned an outbreak of bloody religious violence in Indonesia which has left three people dead and several churches badly damaged.The violence erupted on Sunday when a 1,000-strong mob of Muslim extremists attacked members of the minority Ahmadiyah ...