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Tag: John Graz

Adventist church leaders meet with Hungarian ambassador on looming deregistration of churches

Posted on December 16, 2011December 16, 2011 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Religious liberty leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church this week met the Hungarian ambassador to the United States in an effort to help officials from that country better understand the potential effects of a looming deregistration of churches.

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Adventist Church Selects New UN Liaison

Posted on August 12, 2011August 12, 2011 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

From Adventist News Network – The Seventh-day Adventist Church has selected Ganoune Diop, a theologian and multi-linguist, as its new voice at the United Nations. Former mission study centers director will also contribute to IRLA 12 Aug 2011, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States Bettina Krause/IRLA/ANN The Seventh-day Adventist Church has selected Ganoune Diop, a theologian and multi-linguist,…

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Southern Mexico’s religious liberty forum spotlights local challenges to freedom of belief

Posted on July 26, 2011August 14, 2011 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Although they garner little attention from the international community, recent cases of violence directed toward Protestants in the region, among them Adventists, intensify the need to protect the region’s tenuous religious liberty.

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Following Norway attack, Adventist religious liberty director urges caution in use of ‘fundamentalist’ label

Posted on July 26, 2011August 14, 2011 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Graz also urged caution in the use of the term “fundamentalist” to describe the individual alleged to have carried out the attacks, instead proffering the term “extremist” as a more accurate description of the type of ideology and behavior that falls far outside the norms of a religious community.

“There’s a risk that ‘fundamentalism’ will become blurred in people’s minds with the idea of ‘conservative Christianity’ — a confusion that could serve to widen the gulf of misunderstanding between different religious traditions,” he said.

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First religious liberty festival in Jerusalem draws hundreds (ANN)

Posted on August 9, 2009August 9, 2009 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Source: Adventist News Network   Hundreds of religious liberty proponents from Israel and the Palestinian Territories gathered in Jerusalem Sunday for the symbolic city’s first festival of religious freedom. The event generated a “climate of good understanding” among attendees that organizers hope will spur increased tolerance in the region, said John Graz, secretary-general for the…

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São Paulo passes religious freedom charter (ANN)

Posted on November 26, 2008November 26, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders and religious freedom proponents in Brazil say the passage this month of the Brazilian Charter of Religious Liberty helps galvanize freedoms of belief already established by the country’s constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Largest religious liberty festival to date draws 45,000

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Administrator

Angola: rebuilding country promotes freedom of belief Adventist News Network Some 45,000 Angolans gathered at a sports stadium in Luanda June 28 to celebrate freedom of religion in their country, which is rebuilding in the aftermath of a 27-year civil war that ended in 2002. The festival, the largest to date, followed a three-day religious…

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