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Swiss to Vote on Burqa Ban

18 Sep 2017
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Kelly Frazier

Required signatures all collected and sent to Bern worn by conservative Muslim women. Activists of “Yes to a Mask Ban” group have collected in excess of 100,000 signatures needed to put this...

Austria Recognizes 31 Jehovah’s Witnesses Who Were Killed in Concentration Camps

24 Aug 2017
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C Barnett

About 154 Witnesses who were Austrian citizens perished in the Holocaust. On May 19, 2017, during the Second World War. The event saw the unveiling of a memorial plaque acknowledging the 31 Jehovah's...

Belgium’s Ban on the Burqa is Here to Stay

18 Jul 2017
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Derek Welch

The judge ruled that the burqa ban does not violate private and family rights. and similar Islamic clothing that covers the wearer's full face. Judges have arrived at the decision that the prohibition,...

Hellenism Officially Recognized as a Religion in Greece

20 Apr 2017
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C Barnett

The ancient religion Hellenism is now a 'known religion' in Greece. Prior to the granting of this legal status by Greece’s government, Hellenistic practices had no legal standing in the country...

Is the Muslim Culture Being Embraced in Europe? [Interview]

12 Feb 2016
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Joseph Preville

Peter O’Brien dissects the debated topics of headscarves, terrorism, secularism and intra-European tensions in his new book The Muslim Question in Europe. Written by Joseph Preville and Julie Poucher...

European Court on Human Rights Wins Religious Freedom Case for Russian Scientologists

06 Oct 2014
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Alison Lesley

The denial of a Russian Church of Scientology's registration has been deemed a violation of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The European Court on Human...

European Court Rules That France Can Maintain Burqa Ban

01 Jul 2014
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Alison Lesley

No rights are breached by the ban, says Europe's top rights court. The European Human Rights court ruled that a ban of the burqa and the niqab, did not contradict the European Convention of Human Rights. The...