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| | Religious persecution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | He proclaimed that there was no god but Aten (Ra), and ordered all references to other gods in the kingdom demolished or excised, forbidding even the use of the plural form of their word for god. | | | Similarly religious differences may parallel geographic and ethnic differences, as in the tenth century with the Christians of Europe and the Muslims of the Middle East. | | | Many religious leaders accumulate wealth and many "religious" persecutions stem from attempts by members of other faiths to redistribute that wealth to themselves. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_persecution
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| | Religious Persecution |
| | Read on for more about the CRC and religious persecution, the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church and more. | | | Religious persecution hampers the work of the Christian Reformed Church and its agencies throughout the world. | | | The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church this year will be recognized November 13 in the US and on November 20 in Canada. |
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http://www.crcna.org/justice/issues/religiouspersecution/index.asp?IssuesMenu
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| | Scientology, Free Speech and "Religious Persecution" |
| | Because the secrecy of the OT levels is a central tenet of Church doctrine, the Scientologists argued that publishing the secrets constituted "irreversible alteration of religious beliefs, including compelled annihilation of a core belief." The Church likened this to forcing a Christian to deny the resurrection of Jesus Christ. | | | Although this might wash in a religious court, it is outside the scope of secular law to judge the truth of religious claims. | | | Because the kinds of religious belief in the world are so many and varied, it is very difficult to pin down those characteristics that define religious belief systems and separate them from other sorts of belief systems. |
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http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~cj871/persecution.html
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| | Religious Persecution in Tibet |
| | There will be no end to religious persecution in Tibet until Tibetans are allowed not just to practice their religion freely, but to think and express themselves freely. | | | Religious persecution in Tibet is not just a matter of ethnic or religious conflict or discrimination by a majority against its minorities. | | | This was extended to include the display of all religious symbols in the homes of not just Party members, but all government workers and their families, who were required to allow their homes to be searched for altars, religious pictures, and other religious paraphernalia. |
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http://www.tibet.ca/pub/persecution.htm
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| | WORLDWIDE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION OVERVIEW |
| | Attacks on religious minorities by (or with the assistance of) governments which are allied with religious groups within their own countries: This type of oppression seems to appear to some degree in almost all of those countries which lack a wall of separation between church and state; i.e. | | | When one faith group attains political power in a religiously divided country, then the potential for persecution based on religion is high. | | | Meanwhile, the religious conservatives are often ostracized by their co-workers because of their conversion activities. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/rt_overv.htm
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| | Scientology's vindictive religious persecution |
| | Scientology is a religion that has gone mad in its massive systematic conspiracy to deprive others of their religious freedom and in its engaging in all forms or religious persecution against reformers and reform churches. | | | Gerry Armstrong is not the only religious reformer or reform church Scientology has attacked through covert opperations or perverse twisting of secular law for religious persecution. | | | I ask that the reader of this document to carefully examine the freedom of religion, religious persecution and separation of Church and state constitutional issues at stake in Scientology's perverse twisting of secular laws for religious persecution. |
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http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/pers_sum.htm?FACTNet
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| | PCA Position Papers: Statement of Conscience of the NAE concerning Worldwide Religious Persecution (1996) |
| | It is lamentable that persecution of religious believers is pervasive around the world. | | | In other parts of the world, where persons of evil intent rightly understand that the survival of churches undermines their aims, because these churches affirm the human dignity of all persons created in God's image and acknowledge their ultimate accountability to a transcendent God. | | | Issuance of instructions to consular officials acknowledging the mounting evidence of religious persecution and instructing them to provide diligent assistance when the victims of religious persecution seek refugee status. |
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http://www.pcanet.org/history/pca/3-476.html
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| | Introduction: Halt Religious Persecution |
| | Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. | | | The tentacles of religious persecution in today's world reach out from disputes of past eras and present political agendas, prejudice and misunderstanding, to strangle communities of faith. | | | Freedom of religion is not a prize for governments to award individuals who uphold officially approved beliefs or acceptable religious practices; freedom of religion is a universal human right. |
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http://www.udhr.org/Religiousfreedom/intro.htm
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| | Religious Persecution |
| | Religious persecution is a violation of the right to freedom of religion guaranteed in the Charter and in the Universal Declaration and Covenants. | | | Persecution on the basis of religion is documented as far back as the earliest religious writings and throughout ancient and modern history. | | | The UN has emphasized the right to religious freedom through its human rights documents and framework, most recently expanded upon in the 1981 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance Based on Religion or Belief, and the subsequent creation of a special Rapporteur on religious intolerance. |
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| | Religious Persecution |
| | Persecution of religious groups is not a thing of the past but rather a tool of oppression in the present. | | | The Uniting Church in Victoria is set to launch a campaign to combat religious persecution, especially against Christians, around the globe. | | | Members of the church, and the general public, are being asked to join a network that will challenge governments, embassies and public officials when incidents of religious persecution come to light. |
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http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/189.htm
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| | Religious Persecution in Georgia--How Much Longer? - Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site |
| | (2) The persecution of an individual for his thoughts, beliefs or religion is prohibited. | | | Religious fanatics, who had burned literature of Jehovah's Witnesses in the past, now felt confident that they could attack the Witnesses themselves and get away with it. | | | On June 21, 1999, the Office of the Patriarch of All Georgia, in a letter to the head of customs inspection, insisted that "the distribution of foreign religious literature should be banned." In addition, Giorgi Andriadze, an official spokesman of the Georgian Orthodox Church, declared that Jehovah's Witnesses were dangerous and should be banned. |
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http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2002/1/22/article_01.htm
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| | Religious Persecution |
| | Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. | | | New religions, popularly labeled as "sects" or demonized as "cults," are particularly vulnerable to religious intolerance, since their beliefs are often unconventional. | | | This will plunge the world into the darkest and most horrendous nightmare of religious persecution it has ever known, a time that Jesus described as "Great Tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be!" (Matthew 24:21). |
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http://www.thefamily.org/dossier/statements/persecution.htm
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| | Commonweal: Religious persecution |
| | This is not the American tradition of religious freedom, but we should not act as if all restraints and limits on religious groups are the same as murder, imprisonment, and torture. | | | Tibetan Buddhism, long persecuted by the Chinese government, lies on the brink of extinction. | | | When Americans speak of religious freedom, we operate with the assumptions of the First Amendment: in principle and in practice our government favors no particular religion and is broadly tolerant of all. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n14_v124/ai_20148152
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| | NCC Resources on Religious Freedom and Religious Persecution Abroad |
| | Global religious freedom and religious persecution abroad are urgent public policy issues and will continue to reach into the life of our churches. | | | NCC News Alert: International Religious Leaders Delegation on Religious Persecution | | | We hope that both ecumenically and together and in the life of our individual churches, we can bring attention to religious persecution in ways that reflect the best sensitivities, understandings and commitments of our shared Christian faith. |
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| | WINDS - Religious Persecution Monitoring or Religious Persecution? |
| | While China and Vietnam are cited in the Act, special reference is made to "militant Islamic" countries that "persecute" religious minorities -- further evidence that fundamentalist, monotheistic religions and cultures are in the cross hairs of this new bureaucracy. | | | HR 2431 does not define "religion" and its description of "persecution" is somewhat definitive ending with the phrase, "or other forms of torture". | | | The director will be empowered with sweeping authority to monitor religious groups around the world to decide if they are suffering persecution and to apply economic sanctions against the offending nation, entity or individual. |
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| | Religious Persecution Links |
| | Religious persecution scholar Paul Marshall has suggested that an estimated 200,000,000 Christians are currently being persecuted for their faith. | | | Thousands of religious believers were martyred in the last few years. | | | There is more religious persecution in this century than at any other in history. |
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| | Uzbekistan: Muslim Dissidents Jailed and Tortured (Human Rights Watch, 30-3-2004) |
| | Her son, imprisoned for "religious extremism," died in prison in August 2002 after he was apparently submerged in boiling water. | | | Just last month, a 62-year-old woman, Fatima Mukhadirova, was convicted on charges of religious extremism after she had spoken out about the torture and death of her son in custody. | | | The government's targets are independent Muslims who practice their faith outside state-run mosques and madrassas or beyond the strict controls set out by the government's laws on religion. |
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| | Religious Persecution in America? |
| | It was done by religious people who were themselves persecuted for religious reasons in Europe. | | | Fortunately, America has progressed from persecuting religious dissenters-- to tolerating religious dissenters--to providing religious freedom to all because it is a natural right. | | | It is amazing that many God-fearing people were persecuted for religious reasons while the Constitution of the State of Arkansas forbade it. |
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| | Religious Persecution in Armenia |
| | April 21st: At 07.50 AM, Artur Simonian, pastor of the Charismatic church and Edward Petrossian, administrator, were arrested separately in their homes and taken to a regional centre of Erkrapah for questioning by men in civilian clothes. | | | April 19th: The leader of the Pentecostal church in Yerevan, Romik Manoukian, was taken away during a church-meeting by five unknown men. | | | They also took religious literature from their homes. |
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| | >>> AsiaNews.it <<< Systematic religious persecution in Myanmar |
| | >>> AsiaNews.it <<< Systematic religious persecution in Myanmar | | | The Muslim community is also victim of religious persecution. | | | Here is a short outline of the situation of the country’s main religious groups. |
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| | NCC May 5, 1998, Letter to Congress on Religious Persecution Legislation |
| | It was clear that energy for the religious persecution legislation is not coming from religious communities overseas. | | | Its impact may well be to further empower religious extremists. | | | Third, what is reported as religious persecution is often understood locally as something quite different. |
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| | Christian Persecution Information |
| | Religious violence that erupted in the central Nigerian state of Plateau a few weeks ago has spilled into more towns and villages in that state and beyond, resulting in the deaths of eight pastors and 1,500 Christian believers, and the destruction of 173 churches. | | | Persecuted Chinese House Church leaders, including tortured and sexually abused women, have for the first time testified at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights amid claims that the Beijing government is increasing pressure on unregistered churches and active believers, ASSIST News Service (ANS) learned Monday April 5. | | | However, a momentum seems to be gathering and heading towards serious confrontation between the Buddhist religious establishment, the Sri Lankan government, the NGOs and the Church. |
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| | Persecution News/Reports |
| | F18 reported, "Both registered and unregistered religious communities appear to function freely, despite a 1996 presidential decree requiring religious communities to register. | | | f persecution, Christian Persecution, persecution of Christians, persecution in china, religious persecution, religious liberty | | | BosNewsLife did not see the original letter, but CSW and other organizations are known to have close contacts with persecuted Christians. |
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| | Religious Persecution |
| | To direct the Division for Church in Society to continue its work with other appropriate churchwide units to study the matter of religious persecution and religious freedom and assist this church to respond effectively and sensitively to violations of the human right of freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; | | | To call on members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to continue to foster respect, tolerance, and understanding of other faiths, including an examination of the causes and manifestations of religious extremism in a variety of religious contexts; and | | | To respond to the memorials of the New Jersey Synod and New England Synod by calling upon members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to pray for all victims of religious persecution, both Christians and non-Christians, and for their oppressors; |
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| | CNN.com - U.S. report details global religious persecution - April 30, 2001 |
| | That law is meant to promote religious freedom in U.S. international policy and combat religious persecution in other countries. | | | China exercises tight control over Uighur Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists, the report said, and reports of torture by government officials were on the rise. | | | The commission wrote that religious freedom in North Korea "is nonexistent... |
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| | America as a Religious Refuge: the 17th Century (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of ... |
| | The religious persecution that drove settlers from Europe to the British North American colonies sprang from the conviction, held by Protestants and Catholics alike, that uniformity of religion must exist in any given society. | | | This conviction rested on the belief that there was one true religion and that it was the duty of the civil authorities to impose it, forcibly if necessary, in the interest of saving the souls of all citizens. | | | The dominance of the concept, denounced by Roger Williams as "inforced uniformity of religion," meant majority religious groups who controlled political power punished dissenters in their midst. |
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| | Forum 18 Search/Archive |
| | The continued attacks on religious believers make many believe that the authorities have no intention of changing the ongoing reality of continuing persecution and de facto and de jure criminalisation of religious belief. | | | The Jehovah's Witnesses have told Forum 18 that their communities "are still subjected to severe persecution and discrimination at the hands of the authorities", and say the situation has not improved. | | | There is no slackening of religious persecution in Turkmenistan. |
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| | Religious Persecution |
| | Until the shackles of religious oppression are removed, we who have the freedom to profess and practice our faith must demonstrate that faith by boycotting Made in China merchandise, particularly religious and holiday goods, for the word of God cannot be chained. | | | Religious repression in Tibet also remained high, said the lengthy chapter on China, which was rejected as "groundless" by Beijing. | | | Falun Gong deaths - This article from the end of 2002 describes the systematic persecution of practitioners of Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa), a peaceful form of meditation and exercise. |
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| | However, in a report on religious freedom in Eritrea, the US State Department said this had "deteriorated" during 2002 and the government had closed religious facilities not belonging to the country's four main faiths - Orthodox Christian, Muslim, Catholic, and Evangelical Christian. | | | In its statement outlining the "basic facts" of religious freedom in Eritrea, the government said "all religions are equal and no religion is more equal than others". | | | "No groups or persons are persecuted in Eritrea for their beliefs or religion," the statement said. |
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| | Religious persecution under Alexander the Great |
| | Even today, the Zoroastrians (that is, the followers of the legendary prophet Zarathustra) tell stories about a serious religious persecution by Alexander the Great, who killed the priests and ordered the holy book of Zoroastrianism, the Avesta, to be destroyed. | | | They say that, once upon a time, the pious Zarathustra made the religion, which he had received, current in the world; and till the completion of three hundred years, the religion was in purity, and men were without doubts. | | | Although there are some indications of a written version of the Avesta in Achaemenid times (it is mentioned in the Book of Arda Wiraz quoted above), and some more indications for its existence in the Parthian age, the real composition of this library of Zoroastrianism texts took place in the sixth century CE. |
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| | Refugees and religious persecution |
| | After 50 years of assessing refugee status on the grounds of religious persecution, officials charged with this responsibility are asking how the changing meanings of “religion” and “persecution” apply to the millions whose destinies they decide. | | | He attributed the rise in religious persecution to religious fundamentalism, reaction against symbols of power like the US, and tighter control over religious groups as a byproduct of economic modernization. | | | The two spoke at a roundtable on refugees and religious persecution sponsored by CWS and UNHCR. |
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| | OpinionJournal - Taste |
| | According to the OSC complaint, one museum specialist chided him by saying: "I think you are a religiously motivated person and you have dragged down the Proceedings because of your religiously motivated agenda." Definitely not, says Mr. | | | She told him no. Coddington then asked if Sternberg was affiliated with or belonged to any religious organization. | | | Darwinism, by contrast, is an essential ingredient in secularism, that aggressive, quasi-religious faith without a deity. |
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| | China: Religious Persecution Persists |
| | The history of religious activity in China, and that of ”western“ religions in particular, reinforces the official view that ”hostile elements from abroad,“ in conjunction with Chinese dissidents, intend to use religion to destabilize China, then overthrow its legitimate government. | | | In particular, governments should urge China to abolish the distinction between ”normal“ and ”abnormal“ religious activities in its constitution and religious regulations; to extend the right of religious belief to minors and to set up universities dedicated mainly to religious education. | | | On both counts Chinese leaders believe that religious adherents, particularly those who express their convictions outside the aegis of central control in so-called unofficial churches, bear watching. |
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| | Religious Persecution--Why? - Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site |
| | DO YOU believe that people should be persecuted because of their religion? | | | For example, many of Jehovah's Witnesses in Europe and other parts of the world were frequently robbed of their rights and cruelly mistreated throughout the 20th century. | | | This is in harmony with Jesus' words: "[My followers] are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world." (John 17:16) Most governments acknowledge the Witnesses' neutral stand. |
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| | HR2431: Religious Persecution Act |
| | Because religion encompasses not only who we are, but who God is, one of the most precious freedoms is religious freedom. | | | All over the world, religious minorities face possible arrest, imprisonment, torture, rape or execution simply because of their faith. | | | The measure, sponsored by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), would also streamline the asylum process for those fleeing religious persecution and stop corporations from selling equipment that could be used to torture religious minorities. |
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| | Religious Persecution Act |
| | Plan to a "Community Meeting" with elected officals, religious leaders, and other civic leaders to discuss the current situation in Tibet and how this bill relates to issues of religious persecution in Tibet. | | | This bill applies to religious believers of all faiths. | | | Martin Scorsese's film "Kundun" will stir many people to ask pressing questions about the status of religious persecution in Tibet and the Tibet movement. |
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| | Anti-Religious Campaigns |
| | The All-Union Council of Evangelical Christian Baptists, established by the government in 1944, typically was forced to confine its activities to the narrow act of worship and denied most opportunities for religious teaching and publication. | | | Campaigns against other religions were closely associated with particular nationalities, especially if they recognized a foreign religious authority such as the Pope. | | | Protestant denominations and other sects were also persecuted. |
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| | CBN News - Saudi Arabia ‘Double-Speak’ on Religious Persecution |
| | The Saudi government forbids all public displays of religious faith outside of the official state religion --Wahhabi Islam, or, Wahhabism. | | | Worshipping Jesus Christ in the country where Islam was born. | | | So in this case, when we're discussing the Koran vs. the Bible, the Saudis can destroy the Bible and nobody really cares, because the Saudis don't have a standard of separating church and state, or religious tolerance. |
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| | BBC NEWS Africa Religious persecution in Eritrea |
| | The believer of the minority religions are the one who vigilantlly defended their land. | | | However, those who believe and practise minority faiths are routinely persecuted, according to human rights groups. | | | Eritreans are allowed to practice any kind of religion so long as it is in conformity with the law of the land. |
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| | Freedom From Religious Persecution |
| | The symbol of the Religious Technology Center is surrounded by sig runes. | | | "The term 'religious persecution' means any violation of the internationally recognized right to freedom of religion, as defined in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights... | | | under the guise that it is a 'religious confessional' for the member's good. |
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| | Religious Persecution Bills Introduced in Senate, House |
| | The first International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church was observed in September. | | | Enslavement of Christian women and children is commonly practiced. | | | Tim Hutchinson, R.-Ark., a member of a Southern Baptist church, called religious persecution the "world's dirty little secret." |
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| | Ann Noonan on religious persecution in China on National Review Online |
| | Though China claims that all are free to believe, or not believe, in religion, all Central Committee officials are atheists and must approach religion from a skeptic's point of view. | | | In his speech at the National Religious Working Conference, Jiang Zemin emphasized that the CPC's work related to religion is an important part of what the China's Communist Party must now do. | | | In describing how this should be done, he seemed to be suggesting an all-out effort to confiscate the best attributes of various religious activities — while disregarding any actual tenets of the faith. |
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| | GOP Lawmaker Decries Religious Persecution - May 9, 1998 |
| | GOP Lawmaker Decries Religious Persecution - May 9, 1998 | | | Calling on Americans to help "prisoners of faith," Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., cited cases of torture in places such as Sudan, China and Tibet. | | | Wolf used China as an example, saying that the government there has destroyed up to 5,000 monasteries. |
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| | cutemobiles.com - religious persecution |
| | Find religious persecution and more at Lycos Search. | | | Read about religious persecution in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary. | | | Find religious persecution at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer! |
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| | ERITREA: RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION EXPOSED |
| | Members of Pentecostal Christian churches and Jehovah's Witnesses are frequently arrested for practicing their faiths. | | | Some 12 independent Pentecostal and charismatic denominations which represent 20,000 adherents have been targeted since May 2002, when they were ordered to close their church buildings and stop all meetings for worship, even in private homes. | | | No organisation can claim ignorance of Eritrea’s religious persecution now – the persecution has been well and truly exposed. |
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| | Center for Religious Freedom |
| | The Center defends against religious persecution of all groups throughout the world. | | | Sources in Hanoi have provided Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom with fresh accounts of persecution against Hmong Christians, including land confiscations, beatings, and forced renunciation of their faith. | | | Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom Urges State Department to Make Pakistan a Country of Particular Concern |
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| | Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress Exhibition) |
| | That the religious intensity of the original settlers would diminish to some extent over time was perhaps to be expected, but new waves of eighteenth century immigrants brought their own religious fervor across the Atlantic and the nation’s first major religious revival in the middle of the eighteenth century injected new vigor into American religion. | | | his exhibition demonstrates that many of the colonies that in 1776 became the United States of America were settled by men and women of deep religious convictions who in the seventeenth century crossed the Atlantic Ocean to practice their faith freely. | | | America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century |
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| | FREEDOM FROM RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION ACT |
| | The Freedom From Religious Persecution Act has been introduced in the House by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) as H.R. Last week, the House International Relations Committee approved FFRPA in a 31-5 vote, tracking it for floor action. | | | There is also the concern that by emphasizing religion, other areas of human rights abuses could end up being neglected. | | | Should religious belief and toleration be a factor in U.S. foreign policy? |
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