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Religious persecution worldwide addressed at bipartisan multi-faith summit in Washington, DC
Human Rights
Ambassador Brownback (right) Katrina Lantos Swett, and David Curry, Open Doors USA (left) Voices of persecuted, both believers and non-believers, cry out “Don’t forget me” – religious freedom multi-faith and…
America
Introduction In October 2020, when Pope Francis announced his selection of 13 new cardinals from eight countries as diverse as Rwanda, Chile, Brunei and Mexico, he also accorded the honor…
ECHR
“View in the White Mountains” by Thomas Cole, 1827 This is an excerpt from “Chasing Eden,” the latest book by Hancock’s Howard Mansfield — an author who “sifts through the…
Human Rights
UNITED NATION HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE’S DECISION HAS NO EFFECT ON CAPE VERDE's COURT DECISION PRAIA, CAPE VERDE, July 21, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In its decision of June 29, 2021 delivered…
Human Rights
The head of the UN World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has welcomed the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as a chance to spread “hope to the world”.…
ECHR
Independent UN rights experts on Wednesday warned that hundreds of Venezuelan cancer patients could die because they have been caught up in the excessively strict application of United States sanctions aimed at…
ECHR
An alliance of nature charities in Scotland is ramping up its call on the Scottish Government and people to choose rewilding at a critical moment in the country’s political and…
America
Bankole Thompson, a preeminent journalist and social critic, is the Editor-in-Chief and Dean of The PuLSE Institute, and an Opinion Columnist at The Detroit News. Bankole Thompson, whose forceful writings…
ECHR
The Tokyo Olympic Games are getting underway in one of the world's biggest cities, but there will be no spectators - and none of the usual spiritual support from churches.
ECHR
The floods in western Europe are the worst seen in a generation, and more than 100 people have already lost their lives. Germany and Belgium have been the worst affected,…
