In 1988 Salmon Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, a book which Muslims thought disparaged Islam. Riots broke out in Muslim countries, and shortly thereafter, Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued...
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05 Jun 2020
WRN Guest
For those rational individuals who thought that the First Amendment kept government out of religious affairs, assured the people’s right to worship as they chose, and guaranteed the right to “peaceably...
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COVID 19 has many side effects, not all of them medical. Many parts of life have been put on hold and only essential services have been allowed to continue to function, albeit usually with social distancing,...
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India Joins 13 Other Violators of Religious Liberty The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom on April 28th released its 2020 Annual Report, documenting significant developments...
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Pastor Jon Duncan of the Cross Culture Christian Center in Lodi, Calif., has been ordered by the San Joaquin County Department of Health to stop religious gatherings. The Church, which has continued to hold...
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Coronavirus, Church and State, Romney and White Horse, 200 Years of Christianity, Baxter Black, Blessing of the Nukes, Chinese Ban Funerals Christians Help in Coronavirus Hot Zone Christians in Wuhan,...
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As many as a million Muslim Uighurs are currently imprisoned in Chinese “re-education camps,” according to new data released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). ICIJ...
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20 Dec 2019 Charlotte Odenson
In the United States every child learns the story of the Pilgrims coming to America on the ship "The Mayflower." However, few of us ever discover the preceding centuries of religious history that culminate...
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Over the last couple of years, I’ve heard the phrase “The war on Christmas” invoked more and more frequently. Often, it comes from the mouths of conservative media commentators, but more often it comes...
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The “Fairness for All Act,” proposed by Utah Congressman Chris Stewart is an attempt to craft a compromise between LGBTQ civil rights and religious liberty, which have been in conflict for several...
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