Sentences with phrase «violation of religious freedom»

The list of such violations of religious freedom keeps growing,....

The Trump administration has accused Pakistan of severe violations of religious freedom in a further sign of deteriorating relations.

The CPC designation is reserved for governments that commit or tolerate «systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.»

Update (May 23): The Arizona state senate has approved a state - level Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which will «would allow people to sue over potential violations of religious freedom,» according to the Associated Press.

The Catholic bishops, who are in Baltimore this week for a quarterly meeting, spoke out against the Obama administration during the election cycle over what they said were White House violations of religious freedom.

Its commissioners are appointed by the White House and Congress and charged with reviewing violations of religious freedom abroad.

Each year, USCIRF suggests countries for inclusion on the State Department's list of «countries of particular concern» — countries whose governments engage in or tolerate especially bad violations of religious freedom.

Two weeks ago, the US State Department released its list of countries of particular concern (CPC)-- a compilation of nations that have «engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.»

The Little Sisters are not engaged in a political stunt but in an act of moral resistance to the egregious violation of religious freedom.

Prohibiting a citizen from wearing religious garb — a yarmulke, a clerical collar, a Hare Krishna robe — would seem on the face of it to be a violation of religious freedom.

In its report, the State Department referenced USCIRF's opinion of Saudi Arabia: «Since 2004, Saudi Arabia has been designated as a «Country of Particular Concern»... for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.»

It also caught the attention of researchers, who spent three years and $ 1.1 million compiling «the world's first systematic global investigation into the responses of Christian communities to the violation of their religious freedom.»

After Modi failed to prevent the riot deaths of 1,000 Muslims in 2002 while he was chief minister of the western state of Gujarat, the State Department leaned on a little - known provision in the International Religious Freedom Act that says foreign officials responsible for «severe violations of religious freedom» shouldn't be admitted to America.

Sergei Ryakhovsky, head of the Protestant Churches of Russia, and several other evangelical leaders called the law a violation of religious freedom and personal conscience in a letter to Putin posted on the Russian site Portal - Credo.

InterVarsity has long had a strict policy that its leadership can only identify as Christian, and the lawsuit against Wayne State articulated that the action to dismiss the organization is a violation of religious freedom.

Open Doors's rankings came out a week after the State Department released its list of countries of particular concern — those that have «engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.»

In an effort to prevent this from happening, two years ago New York passed a law requiring parents to sign a waiver before the ritual can be performed, but some mohels and Orthodox Jewish families object to the form as a violation of their religious freedoms and simply don't sign it.

In actuality, I suggest, a violation of their religious freedom would have entailed someone forcing them to disobey the tenants of their religion by engaging in homosexual practices themselves.

Yesterday the US Supreme Court ruled that forcing some companies to provide women with free contraception was a violation of their religious freedom.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that asking companies to provide free contraception is a violation of religious freedom — a decision made without looking at the science