HONG KONG – China's ruling Communist Party has further stepped up control over all religions, dissolving its long-standing State Administration for Religious Affairs bureau and handing its functions to the party's United Front Work Department.
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International
March 15, 2018
'Easter bunny' ruling is fuel for religious freedom fight
OTTAWA – A court ruling that has upheld the rights of religious freedom and expression in the so-called Easter Bunny case seems to support those who will to take the federal government to court over the controversial Canada Summer Jobs application, said lawyer John Carpay.
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Canada
Something’s topsy-turvy when a Canadian Christian couple must go to court to clear their names because they refused to lie on the State’s orders.
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Peter Stockland
March 15, 2018
Editorial: Hare-brained rule
It is a frightening world when those with power assume they can dictate to those without how they must think and what they must say.
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Editorial
OTTAWA – Faith groups have stepped up their efforts to rally their members and urge MPs to support a Conservative motion that calls for removal of the attestation requirement for the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) program.
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Canada
March 6, 2018
Ontario pro-life campus groups consider appeal
OTTAWA – Two student pro-life clubs and a men’s issues association are considering whether to appeal a Feb. 26 court decision that upheld the right of student unions to deny organizations official club status on campus.
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Canada
February 22, 2018
Christian leader, English bishop add to outcry over attacks in Syria
AMMAN, Jordan – A Syrian Christian political leader has joined the growing ranks of international condemnation over violent attacks in Syria's northwestern area of Afrin and the Damascus enclave of Eastern Ghouta.
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International
February 17, 2018
Time to be 'honest' in dialogue with Muslims, Chaldean archbishop says
WASHINGTON – If Christians in the Middle East are going to be "honest" with their Muslim dialogue partners, said Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, Muslims will have to acknowledge that the persecution of Christians in the region did not start with the Islamic State's rise to power in 2014.
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International
February 12, 2018
Ottawa abortion protester arrested under ‘bubble zone’ law
OTTAWA – One of the most well known abortion protesters in the nation’s capital is the first to be charged for violating Ontario’s new bubble zone law.
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Canada
February 12, 2018
India's Cardinal Gracias concerned over threats to diversity
BANGALORE, India – Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, newly elected president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, expressed "anguish" over increasing threats to pluralism in the country.
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International
LONDON, Ont. – A Canadian bishop announced that the Diocese of London, Ontario, would protest new requirements for government grants that require organizations to profess the government’s view on topics like abortion rights and gender identity.
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Canada
February 8, 2018
Speaking Out: Fight for the truth and the unborn
We live in a country where we are told what to believe, we are pressured to conform, and our religious freedoms are gradually being taken away.
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YSN: Speaking Out
February 8, 2018
Bill banning circumcision in Iceland a threat to religious freedom, Cardinal Marx says
A new bill proposed in Iceland that would make circumcision punishable by up to six years in prison is a “dangerous attack” on religious freedom, Cardinal Reinhard Marx has said.
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International
February 6, 2018
No compromise on Canada Summer Jobs policy
Catholic agencies that alter the controversial reproductive rights attestation on the Canada Summer Jobs application will be denied grant money, according to a government spokesperson.
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Canada
OTTAWA – A government report on religious discrimination has overlooked Ottawa’s own failings, including its conduct in the Canada Summer Jobs controversy, according to the president of the Catholic Civil Rights League.
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Canada