Sentences with phrase «on issues of religious freedom»

The newsletter is a solid source of information on issues of religious freedom and democracy around the world, and it is available from The Institute on Religion and Democracy, 729 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20005.

Wolf is a socialconservative who has a long record on issues of religious freedom.

He was also very active in working on issues of religious freedom in Egypt, China, and many other countries.

It is true that, unlike their virtually unanimous attitude on the issue of religious freedom, state courts have not always sustained Sunday legislation against the charge of unconstitutional discrimination.

Also, as so many of your comments have stated, I am not a xenophobic, a islamophobic, an ignorant, or in a direct email sent to me: a lesbian because of my photo, nor am I a non-expert on the issue of religious freedom or freedom of expression because I do not disagree with bill 94.

Not exact matches

While it's rare to see CEOs here take a public stand (witness the silence of Toronto's business leaders when the Rob Ford scandals unfolded), a growing number of American executives are stepping into the public spotlight, taking stands on issues like religious freedom, gay marriage and gun control.

Elizabeth Prodromou, a former Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, or USCIRF, has some harsh words for the commission's annual report, issued last month.

«Given his strong experience on the important issue of international religious freedom, we have confidence that Gov. Brownback will be an important asset and champion,» said Curry.

• The Colson Center held a lunch - time forum on religious freedom at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting, and the four speakers were Timothy George and Ryan Anderson, both members of our Advisory Council, and Thomas Farr and Russell Moore, both friends of the magazine who've written feature essays in the last two issues.

Its 2017 report on religious freedom violators came several weeks after the congressional deadline, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was unusually brief in the department's annual assessment of the issue.

I usually begin by confessing that marking and honoring the date of my baptism hadn't really occurred to me until a quarter - century or so ago, when I began working with evangelical Protestants on pro-life and religious freedom issues and noted that some of them had an interesting way of introducing themselves at a meeting.

George Weigel urges the Church to focus its «primary attention on two key issues: the life issues and religious freedom [because] these are the points of maximum confrontation with the dictatorship of relativism.»

Update: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a statement welcoming Johnson Cook as someone who serve as a principal advisor on religious freedom to Obama and Clinton.

As Arizona's controversial SB 1062 lands on the desk of Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, the exclamation mark this outgoing politician will leave with her pen underscores whether she believes the bill is a distraction from core issues or a necessary step to protect religious freedom.

Separately, founders of the newly formed Interfaith Coalition on Mosques addressed the issue of religious freedom during a news conference at Washington's National Press Club.

Thirty - some years ago, I spent a fair amount of time on religious freedom issues; which meant, in those simpler days, trying to pry Lithuanian priests and nuns out of Perm Camp 36 and other GULAG islands.

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the pope's vicar for Rome, it is said, is one of those who hold this view: what is needed, he is thought to believe, is (in the words of John Allen Jr of the American National Catholic Reporter) «good relations with Islam, but also a more robust capacity to challenge and critique Islamic leaders, especially on issues of «reciprocity» — the idea that if Muslim immigrants benefit from religious freedom in the West, Christians should get the same treatment in Islamic states.»

This recent ruling has global media commentators on all sides of the political aisle debating whether this issue is an affront to religious freedom or a victory to protect the foreskins of young male babies around the world.

IMHO, the only reason «gay marriage» is going anywhere is that its opponents put forth all sorts of distracting religious issues rather than focusing on freedom of association.

The Bishop outlined his concerns about persecution being faced by many religious groups across the globe urged the British Government «to continue to support the United Nations rapporteur in moving beyond the issues of defamation or incitement, important as those issues are — for 45 years the aspiration of drafting a convention on the freedom of religion or belief has been on ice.»

The issue, which has been bubbling in New York City for months, took on a national profile on Friday when President Obama seemed to offer a tacit endorsement of the construction by expressing support for religious freedom.

The Forum on Human Germline Interventions, organized by AAAS, convened a multi-disciplinary group of scientists, ethicists, and theologians to participate in discussions regarding scientific freedom and responsibility issues; the history and status of religious involvement; ethical and theological issues; therapeutic vs. enhancement applications; and setting policy and developing guidelines on human germline research and applications.

This judgment has also come along at a time when the European Court of Human Rights» decision is awaited in the four conjoined cases of Ladele, Eweida, Macfarlane and Chaplin, all of which involve issues of religious freedom and two of which involve the same potential conflict between the right not to be discriminated against on grounds of sexual orientation and the right to religious freedom (see our posts here, here and here).

The central issue in that case was whether a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which required employers to provide employees with health coverage for contraception, infringed on Hobby Lobby's rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which prohibits Congress from enacting a law that burdens a person's exercise of their religion.

In my last post on Double Aspect, I wrote about the religious freedom issues addressed in the Supreme Court's recent decision in Ktunaxa Nation v British Columbia (Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations), 2017 SCC 54, which concerned the constitutionality of a ministerial decision to allow development on land considered sacred by an Aboriginal nation.