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Spain says YES to Bahai marriage

Juan Sanchez Gil -
In an important step towards promoting religious inclusion and diversity in Spain, the first legally and civilly recognised Bahá'í marriage in the country has taken place. This significant milestone came after the Bahá'í Community...
Events

Global Leaders to Convene in Panama for Faith and Freedom Summit IV

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Panama City, Panama – In a world where religious freedoms are increasingly under threat, the Faith and Freedom Summit IV is set to provide a crucial platform for dialogue and action. Scheduled for September 24-25,...
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France 2: Hidden Cameras, Journalistic Ethics and State Television

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Journalistic ethics is a delicate subject. There is such a need to protect the press from various forms of interference, and to preserve its freedom, that very often, any criticism of a journalist or...
FORB

Russia – Three Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to 78, 74 and 27 months in prison

Willy Fautre -
Gevorg Yeritsyan, a Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to 6 years and 2 months in prison at the end of June, declared in court  at the end of his trial: “Jehovah's Witnesses have faced persecution at different...
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FRANCE – I was a victim of a police raid and was abusively detained for two days and two nights

Willy Fautre -
Inappropriate and disproportionate use of massive police raids on several yoga centers and abusive detention of dozens of yoga practitioners. Still no progress in the judicial proceedings. “In the last ten years, I have been...
Europe

RUSSIA: Shootings in several cities of Dagestan, a synagogue and churches attacked

Willy Fautre -
At least 19 people were victims of an attack on police officers, Orthodox churches and synagogues in Dagestan Derbent and Makhachkala on Sunday evening. Five attackers were killed, the authorities said: two in Derbent...
Christianity

RUSSIA: Heavy prison terms for 9 Jehovah’s Witnesses in the occupied territory of Crimea

Willy Fautre -
Nine Jehovah’s Witnesses living in the occupied territory of Crimea are currently serving heavy prison terms of 54 to 72 months for exercising their right to freedom of assembly and worship in private houses: 4...
Europe

Professor Mar Leal, from University of Seville, stated that religious freedom must be protected and not given for granted

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KingNewsWire // Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, 12th Jun 2024 - Leading voices for the promotion and defense of religious freedom across Spain and Europe gathered at the University of Seville on May 27, 2024 for the...
Europe

Experts at conference held at the Church of Scientology of Rome, make the point on the state of freedom of belief in Italy and...

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University professors, civil servants, parliamentarians and religious representatives took part in a one-day conference on current challenges to freedom of belief.
Books

Scientology’s Foundation Mejora presents new scholarly book about 10 years of promotion and defense of religious freedom

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Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, 29th May 2024 - religious freedom - The Mejora Foundation, which has consultative status with the UN ECOSOC, presented its latest book at the Faculty of Law of the University of Seville,...
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A Russian Jehovah’s Witness was sentenced to 8 years in prison 

Willy Fautre -
On May 16, 2024, the Samara Regional Court confirmed the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Alexander Chagan to 8 years in prison under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 Criminal Code (organization of the activities of...
Books

Book Anticultism in France in 2024: Personal Stories and Battles

Juan Sanchez Gil -
In a world that often misunderstands and ostracizes unconventional beliefs, Donald A. Westbrook’s groundbreaking 2024 book, Anticultism in France, emerges as a beacon of scholarship and attention to the details. Being released by Cambridge University Press...
Europe

Spectacular simultaneous SWAT raids on Romanian yoga centers (II): Fact-checking of the operation in Buthiers, France

Willy Fautre -
Disproportionate use of police forces in search of… inexistent victims of MISA On 28 November 2023, just after 6 a.m., a SWAT team of around 175 policemen wearing black masks, helmets, and bulletproof vests, simultaneously...
FORB

Fleeing from Jordan to Greece because of their change of religion

Willy Fautre -
It has been almost one year since Basir Al Sqour, a 47-year-old former military officer in the Jordanian army with the rank of "major," had to leave his country in a hurry because of...
FORB

France, the new law to fight against “sectarian abuses” in the field of health, subject to the control of the Constitutional Council

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On April 15th, over sixty members of the National Assembly and over sixty Senators referred the newly adopted law “to reinforce the fight against sectarian abuses” to the Constitutional Council for an a priori control of constitutionality pursuant to Article 61-2 of the Constitution.
Europe

Covered in controversy: France’s bid to ban religious symbols imperils diversity at Paris 2024 Olympics

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With the 2024 Paris Olympics fast approaching, a heated debate over religious symbols has erupted in France, pitting the country’s strict secularism against the religious freedoms of athletes. A recent report by Professor Rafael...
FORB

Russia, Jehovah’s Witnesses banned since 20 April 2017

Willy Fautre -
World Headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses (20.04.2024) - April 20th marks the seventh anniversary of Russia’s nationwide ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses, which has led to hundreds of peaceful believers jailed and some brutally tortured. International human rights advocates are decrying...
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Holy Orders on Trial, The French Legal System vs The Vatican

Juan Sanchez Gil -
In a growing dispute that reveals the relationship, between governmental institutions the Vatican has officially voiced its worries regarding the decisions made by French officials in the matter of a nuns removal citing violations...
Asia

Fleeing Persecution, The Plight of Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light members in Azerbaijan

Willy Fautre -
Namiq and Mammadagha's Story Exposes Systematic Religious Discrimination It has been almost one year since best friends Namiq Bunyadzade (32) and Mammadagha Abdullayev (32) left their home country of Azerbaijan to flee religious discrimination because...
Asia

Efforts being made to recognize Sikh Community in Europe

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In the heart of Europe, the Sikh community faces a battle for recognition and against discrimination, a struggle that has caught the attention of both the public and the media. Sardar Binder Singh, the...
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Russia, Jehovah’s Witness Tatyana Piskareva, 67, sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of forced labor

Willy Fautre -
She was just participating in a religious worship online. Earlier, her husband Vladimir received six years in prison on similar charges. Tatyana Piskareva, a pensioner from Oryol, was found guilty of participating in the activities of...
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More determined efforts needed to combat anti-Muslim prejudice amidst surge in hatred, OSCE says

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VALLETTA/WARSAW/ANKARA, 15 March 2024 – Amidst an increase in prejudice and violence against Muslims in a growing number of countries, greater efforts are needed to build dialogue and counter anti-Muslim hatred, the Organization for...
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50 experts on religious minorities explore in Navarra Challenges and Solutions for Religious Minorities in Spain

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Fifty European specialists in religious minorities are meeting this week in Pamplona at an international conference organized by the Public University of Navarra (UPNA) and dedicated to the legal situation of religious denominations without...
FORB

Scandal Hits MIVILUDES in France

Juan Sanchez Gil -
In a recent expose by journalist Steve Eisenberg for RELIGACTU, the Mission Interministérielle de Lutte contre les Dérives Sectaires (MIVILUDES) in France finds itself engulfed in a deep financial scandal that has shaken the...
FORB

RUSSIA, Nine Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to three to seven years in prison

Willy Fautre -
On 5 March, a Russian court in Irkutsk convicted nine Jehovah’s Witness men, sentencing them from three to seven years of prison. The case began in 2021, when officers raided some 15 homes, beating and...
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