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Catholics in Scotland Are the Biggest Targets of Hate Crimes

26 Mar 2018
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Nathan Glover

About 15 percent of Scots are Catholic . The MSP raised this subject in Parliament in the third week of March, after a Catholic church located near the city of Glasgow was vandalized. The Blessed...

Supreme Court Case Could Change Both Abortion And Religion In America

23 Mar 2018
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C Barnett

Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments About Requirements For Pro-Life Pregnancy Clinics The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a controversial case centered on the rights of pro-life pregnancy clinics....

You Should Care About the Johnson Amendment on Religious Funding

23 Mar 2018
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Nathan Glover

Most Recent Debate Over The Johnson Amendment Shows How Important It Is And How Little People Know About It Religious liberty advocates heaved a sigh of relief after the omnibus spending bill omitted...

Westboro Baptist Church Battles LGBT in Streets Over Gay Student

14 Mar 2018
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Derek Welch

The infamous organization was protesting a high school senior for being openly gay The John Burroughs School in Missouri became a physical representation of different ideologies when counter-protestors...

London Mayor Addresses Hate Speech during SXSW Talk

14 Mar 2018
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C Barnett

Sadiq Khan shows the need for curbing hate speech SXSW or South by Southwest Festival is mostly regarded by the general public as a music event, but in reality the festival has tracks for Interactive...

The Strange, Tragic Story of Wrongly Imprisoned Pastor Andrew Brunson

13 Mar 2018
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Nathan Glover

With No Proof of Charges, is Andrew Brunson a victim of strained Turkey-U.S. Relations? International relations are murky. They involve competing interests, multiple levels of actors, all operating...

Scientology Budapest Headquarters Raid Ruled Illegal, Church Claims Victory

01 Mar 2018
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WRN Editorial Staff

In a move that the Church of Scientology considers “a victory for religious freedom and human rights for the church,” the Central Court of Buda ruled that the raid and seizure done at its Budapest...

Kentucky Governor Supports T-Shirt Company’s Religious Freedom to Deny Printing to Gay Pride

18 Feb 2018
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Nathan Glover

Others refuse to buy into this argument Governor Matt Bevin, the Republican governor of Kentucky, has urged the Supreme Court of the state to give a judgment favoring Hands-On Originals company. The owner...

Christian Schools in Australia Demanding Religious Freedom Laws to Protect Right to Hire and Fire Based on Beliefs

14 Feb 2018
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Nathan Glover

CSA has submitted all the necessary documents to prove their contention The same should be applicable to non-teaching staff as well. CSA said such actions could be determined by a person's adherence...

Michigan Church Attacked for Conversion Therapy of LGBT Teen

12 Feb 2018
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Gary Nguyen

The church's actions drew political outrage as well. Metro City Church, a . The church had earlier advertised a few programs on its social media page. The particular workshop in the eye of the storm,...