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By Jason Hines – 2010 has been an interesting year in the area of church-state relations, both at home and abroad. While we cannot cover every event of magnitude that took place this year in this forum, we will touch on some of the more important events have taken place over the last 365 days. American Events In March, the […]
Greg Hamilton, President of the Northwest Religious Liberty Association and advisory panel member of ReligiousLiberty.TV presents his book list for 2010-2011. Amazon.com Widgets 1) Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier 2) Decision Points by George W. Bush 3) The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America by Steve Green 4) The Ideological Origins of American […]
The keywords for today are "Secrecy" and "Transparency." There are good secrets and bad secrets. Things to be concealed and things to be revealed. Some people want to know, others want to hide. Secrecy is an valuable commodity. From universities that want to protect professors' academic freedom by keeping their controversial viewpoints from public criticism to the Central Intelligence Agency's […]
This year the Defamation of Religions Resolution will once again be voted on in the UN General Assembly. Its supporters claim that it protects religious freedom… but in fact it does the exact opposite. It allows governments the power to determine which religious views can and can't be expressed in their country, and it gives the state the right to […]
November 17, 2010. Speaking at the launch of the US State Department's International Religious Freedom Report, Hillary Clinton spoke of the importance of religious freedom. She said the freedom is "both a fundamental human right and an essential element to any stable, peaceful, thriving society".
By Rajmund (Ray) Dabrowski – Authentic religion calls for a respect, sensitivity and acceptance of another's beliefs and practices. Do unto others … the saying goes. It really did not matter which one of the muezzins woke me up. The melodic reciting of a call to prayer from one of the minarets at 4:45 in the morning on the next […]
Law recognizes religious pluralism; all faiths to enjoy same 'rights, obligations and benefits' 7 Dec 2010, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States Adventist News Network Staff Members of Peru's congress voted last week to approve legislation guaranteeing the religious liberty of all citizens, a freedom already recognized by the South American country's constitution. The act comes a year after more than […]