Concern Over India’s Violations of Religious Freedom; Pope Denounces Misinformation on Vaccines; World Remembers Holocaust; Human Rights Concerns Persist as Winter Olympics Begin; Supreme Court Abortion Ruling Looms; Finnish Government Puts Christianity on Trial...
Contribution of Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, to the debate at the conference “Diplomatic Boycott of the Winter Olympics in China” held at the Press Club in Brussels on 4 January
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On December 15, 2021, the leading academic publishing house of Connor Court, located in Australia, published through Shepherd Street Press a comprehensive book entitled Religious Confession and Evidential Privilege in the 21st Century.
The book includes 10 chapters,...
Jerry Falwell Jr., the man with an evangelical pedigree, caused shockwaves among Christian conservatives when a series of scandals ousted him as Liberty University President.
CEC General Secretary Dr Jørgen Skov Sørensen, on behalf of CEC member churches, offers a prayer for peace in Ukraine, amid recently escalating tension in the country.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, UN human rights experts have reiterated their calls to combat antisemitism and all forms of religious and racial bigotry.
Germany: Property of archives in a German military museum claimed by anti-war Jehovah’s Witnesses
As reported by The New York Times on 25 January, Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany are seeking to obtain the extensive archives of the...
Scientology - Germany /// "Laicity and freedoms: Legal writings " is an annual scientific magazine edited by the "Law, Secularism and Freedoms" Association . They publish original scientific works, aiming "to make known, both...
Statement of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church-Bulgarian Patriarchate
Subject: Constitutional case № 6 of 2021 in connection with Order № 2 of 29.04.2021, by which the Constitutional Court of the Republic of...
Rev. Christian Krieger, president of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) made recommendations at the Third Plenary of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), highlighting the need to bring the EU closer to the European citizens by inventing new means of democratic debate. He also critiqued European policies on migration that compromise universal human rights.
Work on the Bahá’í temple for the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached a new stage as the steel superstructure for the 26-meter-high dome nears completion.
Church leaders worldwide from across the spectrum are urging caution and calling for prayers as news of a "mad progression" towards war comes from the Ukraine-Russia region.
New Committee Supports Candidates who Favor Religious Liberty; Trump and Evangelical Christians; Majority of Americans Believe Religion Under Attack; Court: Civil Authorities Have No Say Over Religious Governance; Thich Nhat Hanh Passes; Christianity World’s...
More than 40 monks have died on Mount Athos since the beginning of the pandemic. Out of a total of 1,800 monks on Mount Athos, about a thousand have contracted the coronavirus at least...
Marchers descended on Washington DC in busloads from across the United States, braving freezing temperatures to protest the country's abortion laws at the annual 49th March for Life.
The World Council of Churches has called on Israel's government of Israel to end the impunity of settlers who commit acts of violence following an attack on Rabbis for Human Rights and the Palestinians they were accompanying,
Over 80 Jehovah’s Witnesses are in prison in Russia, including four of them sentenced in the first three weeks of January 2022
Credit photos: Courtesy of Jehovah’s Witnesses
On January 20, 2022, the Seversky City...
Joining voices with other faith partners, CEC emphasised the role of religion and education in dialogue in a meeting of the Interreligious and Inter-Convictional Dialogue Committee of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe.
Despite worsening persecution, North Korea has dropped to No. 2 in the Open Doors World Watch List as the Taliban's recent takeover of Afghanistan makes that country No. 1 on the list for the first time, severely impacting the country's tiny pocket of Christians.
A court in Seversk sentenced this 68-year old Jehovah’s Witness to three years in a penal colony. A week ago, Maksim Nikolayevich Beltikov was sentenced to two years in prison
On 19 January 2022, Judge of the Seversky City...
By — Shyamal Sinha
Every full moon day is known as a Poya in the Sinhala language; this is when a practicing Sri Lankan Buddhist visits a temple for religious observances. There are 13 or 14 Poyas per year.The term poya is derived...
CEC highlighted churches’ vision for the Conference on the Future of Europe in European Commission’s High-Level Dialogue Meeting, emphasising the contribution of Christian voices, together with other faiths, in developing Europe’s future.
Researchers in Sweden have found Arabic characters woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves. The discovery raises new questions about the influence of Islam in Scandinavia, writes journalist Tharik Hussain.
They were kept in...
On the centenary of the Tunisian Bahá’í community’s establishment, some 50 social actors explored coexistence and the issue of violence in contemporary society.