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Buddhism

3rd Century BC Buddhist Stupa in India to get makeover

Shyamal Sinha -
The historical Buddhist Stupa or brick Stupa built 2,400 years back by Mauryan king Ashoka, in Haryana’s Yamunanagar, is scheduled to get a makeover with beatification works set to begin.
Christianity

Metropolitanate of Sofia ordered the Russian flags to be removed from the entrance to the rotunda church in the Bulgarian capital

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The management of the capital's rotunda "St. George" in Sofia demonstratively placed two Russian flags at the entrance of the ancient church, along with the Bulgarian and Samara flags. Pictures were published in the...
Christianity

French police has neutralized an alleged bomb left in a cathedral

Gaston de Persigny -
A man entered during the morning service, left a suspicious package and fled French police have evacuated the Toulouse Cathedral of Saint-Etienne after a man who entered during the morning service left a suspicious package,...
News

CEC and COMECE presidents at the Polish-Ukrainian border call for peace and reconciliation

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The Presidents of CEC and COMECE issue a special Easter message from the Polish-Ukrainian border on Friday 8 April 2022, invoking prayer and action for peace in Ukraine and beyond. “Let us continue to pray and work for justice, reconciliation and peace between people, cultures, nations.”
Charities

Romanian Orthodox Church has so far backed Ukraine with more than 5m euros in humanitarian aid

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The press center of the Romanian Patriarchate published a communiqué detailing the support provided by the Romanian Orthodox Church to the victims of the war in Ukraine between 18 and 24 March 2022, and...
Christianity

From the biblical texts: Where is Armageddon and will the Apocalypse take place there?

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Theologians, archaeologists, historians and artists of the End of the World Pandemics and moral decay are serious enough reasons for human societies, regardless of their religion, to be interested in two terms - Apocalypse and...
Europe

Discriminating against a Scientologist in Germany is illegal, Federal Court said

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Discriminating against a member of Scientology, Munich City, condemned by Germany's Federal Administrative Court
ECHR

ECtHR: Belgium condemned for discriminating against Jehovah’s Witnesses

Juan Sanchez Gil -
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...
Buddhism

Annual lantern parade to return after 2-year hiatus

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After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a large-scale lantern parade will resume next month as part of the UNESCO-listed Lantern Lighting Festival, an annual festival to celebrate Buddha’s birthday
Europe

World churches’ head expresses abhorrence at brutality recorded in Bucha, Ukraine; Pope condemns ‘sacrilegious war’

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After television footage that showed mutilated bodies of people in civilian clothes some with their hands bound behind their backs in Bucha, Ukraine, the World Council of Churches head said the reports give stronger indications of grave violations of international law as global outrage grew.
News

With This Light: the story of the ‘Mother Teresa’ of Honduras

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A documentary film bringing to life the story of the 'Mother Teresa' of Honduras, Sister Maria Rosa Leggol, who helped nearly 90,000 Honduran children escape from poverty and abuse
News

Polish churches receive training to ensure strong and safe communities

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The Conference of European Churches (CEC) conducted a training for Polish churches in Warsaw, focusing on crisis management and ways of ensuring security for religious communities. The training was held as part of the Safer and Stronger Communities in Europe (SASCE)
Africa

Congo: Church authorities and the Government meet to start preparing for Pope Francis’ visit.

Vatican News -
The meeting brought together DRC’s Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde, Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, the Apostolic Nuncio to DRC, representatives of CENCO and senior government officials.
Editor's choice

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

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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...
FORB

Finnish MP wins on all charges in major free speech trial

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All charges against Finnish Parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Pohjola are unanimously dismissed following high-profile free speech trialThe former Finnish Minister of the Interior, faced three criminal charges for sharing her faith-based beliefs, including...
News

Putin recruits ‘Muslims’ for his war in Ukraine

Willy Fautre -
In the name of the alleged defence of the “Russian World” and the Russian-speaking inhabitants of Ukraine (against their will), President Vladimir Putin has recently involved Muslims in his “special military operation in Ukraine”:...
News

Delegations of Canada’s indigenous peoples: ‘Pope Francis listened to our pain’

Vatican News -
By Salvatore Cernuzio - "Truth, justice, healing, reconciliation." - Those words express the goals which delegations from several of Canada’s indigenous peoples came to share with Pope Francis this week, in an effort to...
Christianity

Pope Francis’ peace prayer for Ukraine recalls prophecy 105 years ago about Russia

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Pope Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine at a ceremony that looked to a prophecy about peace and Russia that stems back more than a century to purported visions of the Virgin Mary to three peasant children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, but the significance of the needed some explaining to those unfamiliar with Catholic history.
Culture

Glasgow’s museum of religion has been saved from closure – here’s why it’s important for multicultural Britain

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Glasgow’s St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art is unique within the British Isles. It is the only museum dedicated to the dialogue between art and religion, housing religious artefacts from different traditions and eras. From...
News

Pope consecrates Russia & Ukraine: ‘Spiritual act of trust amid cruel war’

Vatican News -
Pope Francis consecrates all humanity—especially Russia and Ukraine—to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and says the act expresses our complete trust in the Virgin Mary in the midst of the “cruel and senseless war” in Ukraine.
Bahai

New York: Forum highlights women’s critical role in climate action

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The BIC brought together member state representatives, UN agencies, and civil society to explore how women are uniquely situated to lead responses to the climate crisis.
News

Denzel Washington credits ‘Grace of God’ for his talents, success

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Award-winning actor, producer and director Denzel Washington says that the many blessings bestowed on him in his long-standing successful career are thanks to God.
Europe

In 2022 Happiness Day Scientology parishioners hit the streets and media waves in Europe and worldwide

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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, March 24, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Happiness Day - In a time when happiness is an ever sought condition, especially with current international events, there is no time for wasting any celebration that calls for...
Asia

Freedom of religion or belief in sharp decline in Asia, a European Parliament report says

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On 22 March, MEPs Peter Van Dalen and Carlo Fidanza made public their 45-page report “The EU and Freedom of Religion or Belief 2017-2021” at the European Parliament in Brussels. Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights...
News

Statement of the Christian Group on Migration on the arrival of refugees from Ukraine

COMECE -
Refugees leaving Ukraine by train. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti / AP) The document includes “important steps to be taken at policy and practice level to respond to the important and increasing needs of the affected population”. The...
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