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INTERVIEW: Is trying to ban Halal slaughtering a concern for Human Rights?

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Is trying to ban Halal slaughtering a concern for Human Rights? This is the question our special contributor, PhD. Alessandro Amicarelli, a renowned human rights attorney and activist, who chairs the European Federation on...
Editor's choice

Barcelona hosts KAICIID Conference on Dialogue for Social Inclusion in Cities

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Castelldefels/Barcelona, SPAIN. Under the theme “Social Inclusion in Cities - Strengthening Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships to Bring Communities into Dialogue”, the International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID), the Blanquerna Observatory for Media, Culture and Religion, the European Council for...
FORB

Interview: “Religion on Fire”, Russia is ruining cultural and spiritual heritage

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"Religion on Fire" is a Ukrainian project that we described few days ago in the article "Russia is destroying primarily its own Churches in Ukraine". We just had the opportunity to interview two of...
Editor's choice

How the anticult FECRIS tries to escape the blame

Jan Leonid Bornstein -
Rogatin is an interesting character. He almost uniformly introduces himself as the Ukrainian representative of FECRIS, and in fact is very “pro-Russian”. Since 2010 he wrote about the impact of “cults” and non-Orthodox religions on the contemporary Ukraine.
FORB

RUSSIA: Seven Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to six years in prison in October

Willy Fautre -
The persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses is going on unabated. In the last 10 months, 40 of them have been sentenced for merely practising their religion in private and put behind bars. Here is the list...
Editor's choice

Religion on Fire: Russia is destroying primarily its own Churches in Ukraine

Jan Leonid Bornstein -
Few days ago, the Ukrainian scholarly project “Religion on Fire” launched their interim report on the damages caused to religious buildings and facilities as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Christianity

Karlsruhe: “An ecumenism of the heart”

Martin Hoegger -
What do I remember, more than a month after the remarkable event that brought together more than 4,000 Christians in the Karlsruhe Congress Centre from 31 August to 8 September? I am referring to...
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Bombshell: Do Russians have the right to alternative service if they refuse to fight?

Jan Leonid Bornstein -
For Sevastianov, there are other ways to support the country and be patriotic than to go and kill people.
America

Panama Ministry of Finance Recognizes Scientology as Benefiting the Greater Community

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PANAMA CITY, Panama, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Scientologists of Panama have a great deal to celebrate. Not only is Scientology recognized as a religion, it has now also been granted full tax exemption and is...
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FORB – MEP György Hölvényi said EU must take a stand against the culture of indifference

Juan Sanchez Gil -
Strassbourg. FORB - In a statement issued by MEP György Hölvényi about the inaction of the EU Commission on religious freedom, he said at Monday's evening plenary debate in Strasbourg: As long as the Special...
Europe

Scientology delivered its 2022 Religious Freedom Awards in Spain

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EINPRESSWIRE. - MADRID. The Foundation for the Improvement (Mejora) of Life, Culture and Society, having consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 2019, and founded by the Church of Scientology...
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Public University of Navarra organised course on inclusion of religious diversity

Juan Sanchez Gil -
Navarra, Spain. The Public University of Navarra (UPNA) organised an autumn course on "Inclusion of Religious Diversity and Interculturality, the challenge of promoting the European way of life". The course was held from 26...
FORB

Patriarch Kirill remains silent after Gorbachev’s passing

Jan Leonid Bornstein -
When the last President of the Soviet Union passed away a few days ago, Kirill remained silent, offering no condolences, and issuing no statement. That does not seem to be a mistake.
Editor's choice

Six more Jehovah’s Witnesses firmly sentenced to prison in Russia in August

Willy Fautre -
The persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses is going on unabated. In the last eight months, 26 of them have been sentenced for merely practicing their religion in private and put behind bars. Here is the...
Bahai

New propaganda ploy to incriminate the Baha’is in Iran

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The Baha’i International Community has received news of a shocking and outrageous new propaganda ploy to incriminate the Baha’is in Iran
FORB

Scientology in Spain will deliver on 23 September the IX edition of the Religious Freedom Awards

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NEWS PROVIDED BY EINPRESSWIRE - MADRID, MADRID, SPAIN, August 24, 2022 / EINPresswire.com / -- The Church of Scientology of Spain and the MEJORA Foundation—Foundation for the Improvement of Life, Culture and Society— have just announced...
Europe

Holland appoints the first woman as Religious Freedom Ambassador

Juan Sanchez Gil -
According to the Twitter account of Former ambassador Bea ten Tusscher, she has now become the new Dutch Special Envoy (or Ambassador for Freedom Religious Freedom and Belief as published in her profile. Bea ten...
Europe

International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence based on Religion or Belief

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On the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence based on Religion or Belief, the EU stands in solidarity with all victims of persecution, wherever they may be.
Asia

Rohingya refugees share concerns with UN rights commissioner during visit to Cox’s Bazar

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In Cox’s Bazar, she visited camps housing Rohingya refugees who, after terrible repression and human rights violations, fled Myanmar five years ago “to get some safety,” she said. “An estimated 1.1 million Rohingyas are in...
Asia

Iran’s persecution of Baháʼís has escalated since June 2022

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As reported by the Baháʼí Community in Brussels (BIC), the "quiet campaign to strangle the Baháʼí community is now taking a more overt violent turn, reminiscent of the earlier days of the Revolution in...
Bahai

Breaking: Shocking demolition of homes and land grabs signals intensifying persecution of Iran’s Baháʼís

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In a cruel escalation, up to 200 Iranian government agents have sealed off the village of Roushankouh, where a large number of Baháʼís live, demolishing their homes.
FORB

Scientology’s religious order’s anniversary included in Spain’s Religious Holiday Calendar

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Next August 12th 2022 will mark 55 years since Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard established, starting in the Spanish Canary Islands as a research project into the spiritual nature of humankind, what has become...
Europe

Russian representative of FECRIS: “Russia has always been a bone in the throat of the US, UK and their satellites”

Jan Leonid Bornstein -
Archpriest Alexander Novopashin, Russian correspondent member of the FECRIS (European Federation of Centres for Research and Information on Sects and Cults), recently called Ukrainian “Nazis”, “Satanists” and “cannibals”. On July 20, in a lengthy...
Culture

United Kingdom: How sensationalist journalism obscures view of reality

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Experienced journalists sat with the UK Bahá’í Office of Public Affairs to explore how news reporting can promote understanding and dialogue.
America

15 NGOs+ send letter to Secretary Blinken to throw pro-Russian anticult organization out from United Nations

Jan Leonid Bornstein -
On June 2, 15 NGOs plus 33 scholars and well-known activists have written to the US Secretary of State, to ask him to start a procedure to have the UN ECOSOC’s consultative status of...
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