Current Events
Jehovah’s Witnesses Undergo Persecution in the former Soviet Union
Since their formation in the late 19th century, Jehovah's Witnesses have suffered relentless persecution worldwide for their controversial r…
Discrimination
3 states still ban religious clothing for teachers (Associated Press)
EXCERPT: PORTLAND, Ore. – A law backed by the Ku Klux Klan nearly a century ago to keep Catholics out of public schools is still on th…
Video
Civil Rights Pioneer E.E. Cleveland talks about meeting Martin Luther King, Jr.
On August 30, 2009, renowned evangelist Edward Earl Cleveland died at Huntsville Hospital in Huntsville, Alabama. He was 88. Cleveland work…
Current Events
Religion in Public Schools: Academic, Not Devotional (J. Brent Walker – Washington Post)
EXCERPT: The Texas Board of Education, the nation’s second largest purchaser of public school textbooks, is revising its K-12 social s…
Current Events
Adventist Golfer put his faith ahead of on-course success (Tulsa World)
EXCERPT: A FIELD OF 312 golfers will tee off Monday in the U.S. Amateur at Southern Hills and Cedar Ridge. One of them – 24-year-old…
Current Events
Religious-freedom groups mourn Kennedy, cite church-state views (ABP)
EXCERPT: . . . The late senator “was a great champion of church-state separation,” said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americ…
Privacy
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet (CNET)
EXCERPT: Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White Hous…
Current Events
‘We have so many uncanonised martyrs’ – Christians in Pakistan are living in daily fear of violence from extremists (Catholic Herald)
Sister Janet Fearns, communications coordinator of Missio writes about the extent of religious persecution in Pakistan. A link to the full…
Current Events
Charles Colson on media indifference to international religious freedom
Charles Colson recently wrote an interesting editorial on the media’s non-response to religious freedom issues in India. Here is an e…
Current Events
Open Forum: What does religious freedom mean to you?
Here is how some members of our Facebook community responded to the question, “What does religious freedom mean to you?” William…