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MPs and faith leaders discuss at UK Parliament role and value of interfaith

MPs and faith representatives convene at UK Parliament to discuss the Role and Value of Interfaith. The media often portrays religion as a source of contention, war and conflict, but does religion really give value to the world?

Urgent Call to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights

Forced Organ Harvesting from living people specifically to sell their organs for profitable transplant surgeries is among the most egregious crimes against humanity conceivable.

UKRAINE-Interview: “Schools should be on the frontline of the full integration”

Interview: How I welcomed refugees - "Schools should be on the frontline of the full integration" - An interview with a teacher of a secondary school in Lisbon who gave asylum to a family...

WHO: The Quality Rights e-training for a paradigm shift in mental health

Restoring the dignity and rights of people with mental health conditions and with psychosocial disabilities needs to be our priority. The Quality Rights e-training will play an essential role in transforming attitudes and practices in mental health

Churches provide relief after lethal flooding in South African province

Churches in South Africa responded strongly to the flood disaster in KwaZulu Natal province, and hich at least 440 people are known to have died in what many said is the worst inundation in...

The Tai Ji Men Case and European Values: A Test for Democratic Taiwan

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch...

US Commission on International Religious Freedom Releases 2022 Annual Report

Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released its 2022 Annual Report documenting developments during 2021, including significant regress in countries such as Afghanistan and the Central African Republic (CAR)....

RUSSIA: 5th anniversary of the ban of Jehovah’s Witnesses: Statistics about the repression

JW World Headquarters (20.04.2022) - April 20, 2022 will mark five years since Russia’s Supreme Court criminalized the activity of Jehovah’s Witnesses, liquidated some 400 of their legal entities, and confiscated their houses of...

The European Parliament has condemned the role of Russian Patriarch Kirill in the war (updated)

In a resolution on 7 April 2022 about the increasing repression in Russia, including the case of Alexei Navalny, the European Parliament condemned the role of Moscow Patriarch Kirill in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Council of Europe: The battle for human rights in mental health continues

The decision-making body of the Council has started its review process of a controversial drafted text that aim at protecting human rights and dignity of persons who are subjected to coercive measures in psychiatry....

Justice and reparations still critical, 30 years on from Sarajevo siege

Thirty years after the siege of Sarajevo, the UN team in Bosnia and Herzegovina reiterated the importance on Wednesday of pursuing justice and reparation for victims, survivors and their family members.

ECtHR: Belgium condemned for discriminating against Jehovah’s Witnesses

Belgium was condemned for discriminating against Jehovah's Witnesses. Failure to grant congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses exemption from property tax in the Brussels-Capital Region since 2018 was discriminatory ECHR 122 (2022) 05.04.2022 In today’s Chamber judgment1, in...

Nazism in Ukraine: Separating Facts from Fiction

Nazism in Ukraine - Sociologist Massimo Introvigne has just published, in his already popular online magazine BitterWinter.ORG, a series of articles with in-depth research to separate facts from fiction, about the propaganda that is...

Support, resignation, fear, protest… Russians facing the war in Ukraine

Alors qui peut arrêter Vladimir Poutine dans cette guerre (ou dans ses futures guerres) ?

Exoplanets: Weird, Wondrous Worlds [Video]

There’s a huge amount of variety among exoplanets – planets outside our solar system. There are water worlds, lava planets, egg-shaped worlds, planets with multiple suns, and even planets with no sun at all!...

France presents project A/HRC/49/L.2 on Freedom of Religion or Belief, on behalf of the EU, and gets adopted by the HRC

France on the name of the European Union presented the Project to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and the HRC adopted the project. Programme Planning and...

Council of Europe parliamentary committee: Step up deinstitutionalization of persons with disabilities

The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly unanimously adopted a draft resolution, as well as a draft recommendation to European governments in line with their obligations under international...

UN Ocean Conference 2022: The launch of a ‘fleet’ of solutions

The solutions to restore the health of the ocean -which provides us with oxygen, food and livelihoods- are out there, and in 100 days they will be in the spotlight in Lisbon, Portugal, at the second ever UN Oceans Conference. 

Pope Francis addresses the participants of the 3rd edition of the European Catholic Social Days

the Holy Father addressed the participants of the event with a message focused on the current war and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

Anti-cult movement hunting pacifists for police in Russia: Back in the USSR

At the European Times, we have covered the long-time association between the anticult movement, the Russian Orthodox Church and the warmongers in the Kremlin. The piece we publish today shows that in current times,...

Russia is wrong, and what about the EU?

The attack on Ukraine represents a great paradox: there is public international law that clearly envisages the possibility of international interventions to protect civilians or collectively reduce countries that use war for non-defensive purposes...

Moscow Patriarch Kirill: War has a metaphysical significance against gay parade

On March 6, 2022, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. At the end of the service, the Primate of the...

How the anti-cult movement has participated to fuel Russian anti-Ukraine rhetoric

Anti-Cults - Since the Maidan events in 2014, when then President Yakunovich was forced to resign after huge protests in the streets of Ukraine, the pan-European Anti-cult movement, led by the European Federation of...

Russian opposition “disorganized” – War situation in Russia

How is the war being felt inside the Russian Federation? Read here the impact of the invasion in Russia. The source for this article chose to maintain anonymity. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its...

RUSSIA: Jehovah’s Witness deported to… Ukraine (!) after his release

Konstantin Bazhenov was deprived of his citizenship due to his criminal prosecution. See a video report and his testimony in Russian. In 2021, one of the first Jehovah's Witnesses that was sent behind bars after the Russian Supreme...
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