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Human rights call to change laws on apostasy
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 17 hours ago
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Kusumita Pederson from the Parliament of the World Religions...Other Muslims follow a Koranic instruction that there should be no compulsion in religion. In India, some state governments have introduced anti-conversion laws.
Tags: Kusumita Pedersen, professor pedersen, India, religious freedom, New York City, Interfaith, Separation of church and state, Freedom of religion, Parliament of the World's Religions, Proselytism, Religion Belief, Religious pluralism, Asceticism
Human rights Groups in America ask Barak Obama to stress religious freedom in talks with Indian Prime Minister
WASHINGTON: Several human rights groups in America have asked the president Obama to pressurize the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh to include religious freedom in discussions between the two countries. The Indian Prime Minister is on an official...
Tags: India, America, Catholics, Anti-Indian sentiment, prime minister, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, human rights, Politics, USCIRF, Social Issues, religious freedom, Religion Belief, rights group, Barack Obama, Manmohan Singh, Leonard Leo, rights concerns, Freedom, causes, Barack Obama, White Center, Larry Cox, Indian, Anti-Hinduism
Clinton, Posner on Int'l Religious Freedom
Mumbai :: India | about 1 month ago
Credibility Prior to joining the State Department, I spent 30 years with Human Rights First, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to building respect for human rights, including religious freedom, through the rule of law. Now it’s my job as a State Department...
US report praises religious freedom in India
Mumbai :: India | about 1 month ago
Credibility The violence claimed 40 lives and left 134 injured, it said. "Although most victims were Christians, the underlying causes that led to the violence have complex ethnic, economic, religious and political roots related to land ownership and government-reserved...
Tags: religious freedom
Bible and Government
I believe in the Sovereign authority of God, not sovereignty of the state, or sovereignty of man for these always lead to disaster as can be seen around the world. Existence of objective moral values, Fixed standards, Absolute truth, Sanctity of...
Tags: religious freedom, government
Orissa Christian leaders reject US secularism report
Mumbai :: India | 3 months ago
Credibility Rejecting a report by a US panel on global religious freedom placing India on the 'Watch List' for the Gujarat and Kandhamal riots, Christian leaders, including the Orissa Archbishop, on Friday said India is "truly secular in letter and spirit". "India...
Tags: India, religious freedom, watch list, putting india
India to celebrate 63rd Independence Day
Mumbai :: India | 3 months ago
Credibility India won independence after a long and arduous struggle with the British colonizers. Inspired by the powerful leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, and his call for agitation based on the principles of 'non-violence' against the British occupiers, countless...
Tags: Indian, religious freedom, Hillary Rodham Clinton, watch list
No turbans for Sikhs teachers
A law that stops Sikhs engaged in the teaching profession from wearing turbans at work has created plenty of ill feeling in the community. The draft law of the Oregon legislature which is awaiting the final approval of the state Governor strives to ban...
Tags: religious freedom, sikhs, turbans, muslim women, burqas, burkhas
Bangladesh dropped from US watch list
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 6 months ago
Credibility US Congressional panel, dropped Bangladesh from its Watch List of countries deemed to violate minorities' right to religious freedom. The absence of measures to promote minority voting rights and the failure of the government to investigate the severe...
Tags: watch list, religious freedom, Bangladesh
Fast-track courts to handle Indian...
Mumbai :: India | 7 months ago
Credibility India's Supreme Court Friday ordered the setting up of special fast-track courts to handle a backlog of cases relating to the mass murder of Muslims in Gujarat state in 2002, a report said. The Gujarat administration has long been accused of dragging...
Tags: India, Gujarat, Advani-Modi, religious freedom, visit india, Will Supreme Court, supreme courts
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