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8 Sep 2011, 1:20 am by Sean Patrick Donlan
With the arrival of sizable groups of immigrants for whom religion remains an integral part of their identity and the emergence of new forms of transcendence and spirituality, religion is back in the public square. [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 6:47 pm by Howard Friedman
 His death is an appropriate time to look back on the historical role of religion and religious groups in South Africa during the Apartheid era. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 12:34 am by Frank Cranmer
In our mediation efforts, we call on all parties involved in armed conflicts around the world to guarantee full, unhindered and unconditional access to humanitarian actors providing assistance to persons belonging to religious or belief minority groups. [read post]
17 Sep 2014, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
There is no force in the history of the world like religious believers who see destruction of nonbelievers—infidels—as the only path to goodness and virtue, and that is what we face in ISIS. [read post]
13 Aug 2022, 5:27 am
. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect. [read post]
15 Jan 2016, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
On Wednesday, Religion News Service covered the press conference at which the Report was released. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 7:00 am by Yosie Saint-Cyr
So the debate is not new in Canada, nor is it around the world. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 12:01 pm by Chris Hajec
And, of course, there is the fiercely militant and intolerant “Islamic State” (aka ISIS or ISIL), a religious group that seeks to convert the world, by force, to its distinctive beliefs. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 8:15 pm by Steve Shiffrin
Their claim is that the materials include false statements and that their religion calls for making health decisions based on the best scientific understanding of the world. [read post]
22 Jul 2016, 9:44 am by David Urban
Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism are typically cited as the major religions of the world, although there are many others that have tens of millions of adherents or more. [read post]
28 Jun 2016, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
As a result, roughly three-quarters of the world’s 7.2 billion people (74%) were living in countries with high or very high restrictions or hostilities in 2014, down slightly from 77% in 2013.The modest declines in countries with high restrictions or hostilities took place despite a marked increase in the number of countries that experienced religion-related terrorist activities, including acts carried out by such groups as Boko Haram, al-Qaida and the Islamic State… [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 6:59 am by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
the lead singer of the rock group Bad Religion and he's now a professor of life Sciences at UCLA. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 8:17 am by Emma Cross, Olswang LLP
The post Supreme Courts around the World: US Health Reform – the Debate Continues appeared first on UKSCBlog. [read post]
24 May 2016, 1:47 pm by Howard Friedman
  When there is freedom of religion, it not only allows people to fully express the love and compassion that are at the heart of all great religions, but it allows faith groups to serve their communities through schools and hospitals, and care for the poor and the vulnerable. [read post]
17 Nov 2006, 12:59 pm
Though long (some 600 pages), the book is illuminating about both the world of the time and, by contrast, the world of our own, when it is, among other things, unthinkable that national attention would be focused on a strike by sanitation workers. [read post]
19 Apr 2013, 12:10 pm by Alex Vitrak
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30 Dec 2012, 12:20 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 One reason it’s difficult is that many of the world’s leading religions regard proselytizing as an affirmative religious duty – unsurprising, since it’s a way to become a leading religion. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
The 9th Circuit yesterday, in a 2-1 decision that spawned three lengthy opinions, held that the Christian humanitarian organization, World Vision, comes within the exemption in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (42 USC 2000e-1) for "a religious corporation, association, educational institution, or society with respect to the employment of individuals of a particular religion to perform work connected with the carrying on by such corporation, association,… [read post]
25 Sep 2009, 8:55 am
Religious groups have been active at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh. [read post]