As Australians wait to hear the government’s response to the Ruddock review of religious freedom (and indeed, the content of the report itself), it is worth considering exactly how the two intersect in this largely secular society. Australia has neither constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom nor a bill or charter...
(Photo: Reuters/Murad Sezer)A demonstrator waves Turkish and Islamic flags in Istanbul, January 15, 2015. Today, approximately 215 million Christians experience persecution, meaning that one in twelve Christians live where Christianity is "illegal, forbidden, or punished" and "Islamic extremism remains the global, dominant driver of persecution, responsible for initiating oppression...
# When “Christian Privilege” was suggested as a Crosstalk topic, I laughed: The idea of Christian privilege seemed ludicrous to the extreme. “Your making that up,” was my initial response. # Raised as an “evangelical” back when “born again” was a religious expression of belief rather than a rallying...
"These draconian laws are being used as a tool for discrimination and forcible conversion every day and the world stays silent. This poor boy will now face a most daunting court case and will lose most of his life in prison…" — Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman, British Pakistani Christian...
Washington D.C. is to host the Third International Conference on Religious Freedom from Dec. 4-6 titled, "Persecution of Christians in the Holy Lands and the Middle East: Consequences and Solutions." The conference is sponsored by the Order of St. Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Previous conferences were held...
Christian boy beaten to death by Muslim students in school in Pakistan London: September 2, 2017. (PCP) A Christian teenager who was highly academic despite years of institutional peer bullying and discrimination was killed by Muslim pupils whilst in a classroom environment in Vehari District in the Punjab. Against...
NEW YORK ( ChurchMilitant.com ) – In the face of war and persecution, Christianity is withering across much of the Middle East. A new study by the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA), a papal agency for humanitarian and pastoral support, paints a bleak picture of the state of...