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Billions collected through the state for major churches raise new questions about pluralism, minority faiths and public accountability. Germany’s church tax generated an estimated €12.7 billion in 2025 for the...
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Hungary’s new administration has been handed a rare opportunity: to turn religious freedom from a politically managed issue into a genuine democratic guarantee. In remarks published on 12 May 2026,...
America
Rudnev and his wife, Tamara, in the house-arrest residence in Buenos Aires. For fourteen months, the life of Konstantin Rudnev unfolded behind the walls of Rawson, Argentina’s most remote maximum‑security...
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PRESS RELEASE // Church of Scientology International // GERMANY - For nearly 30 years, Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution subjected the Church of Scientology and thousands of...
Europe
Germany’s public broadcaster reported the end of federal surveillance, but preserved the very stigma that decades of intelligence monitoring helped create. On 15 May 2026, Tagesschau reported that Germany’s domestic...
Asia
World Falun Dafa Day, marked on May 13, has become both a spiritual celebration and a human-rights reminder. For practitioners of Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, the day...
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What is freedom of religion? A clear explanation of the right, its legal limits, and why it matters for democracy, minorities and public life.
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When I published in “The European Times” my previous investigation into the case of Konstantin Rudnev—a Russian spiritual teacher now detained in Argentina—the reaction from readers was immediate. Many wrote...
Europe
Norway has made freedom of religion or belief a sustained part of its international development and human-rights policy. Its approach is not framed as the promotion of religion, but as...
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The European Commission’s appointment of Mairead McGuinness as EU Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief has been widely welcomed. Yet information made available to The European Times indicates...
