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Martin Surridge

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EXCERPT: An Italian parliamentary commission has approved a draft law that would ban women from wearing veils that cover their faces in publ…

EXCERPT: A judge has ruled that the construction of a new mosque in Rutherford County does not harm the residents who sued the county over i…

By Martin Surridge – The mass of strangers and suitcases pressed against me so tightly that I did not have to worry about the sharp tu…

In Quebec a furious public debate has erupted over Muslim women who wear the niqab – face veil. Out of over 200,000 Muslims in Montrea…

EXCERPT: President Obama yesterday carried out what has become an annual tradition of declaring January 16 “Religious Freedom Day.…

Martin SurridgeJanuary 17, 2011

EXCERPT: At Religion Clause, Howard Friedman notes that Santa Monica could become the second California city to place on the 2012 ballot a b…

EXCERPT: Sex and civic education in schools in Europe is an “attack” on religious freedom, Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday, fol…

Martin SurridgeJanuary 17, 2011

EXCERPT: A North Dakota constitutional amendment about religious freedom will be on the state ballot next year. Secretary of State Al Jaeger…

By Martin Surridge – Just a few weeks ago, I returned from one of the most beautiful and enchanting countries in Southeast Asia-Thaila…

EXCERPT: It’s Tuesday night Bible study, which at this Crystal City Mormon chapel looks a bit like a mixer. Pews are filled with peopl…