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China Now Arresting Families for Praying at Home

23 Oct 2017
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Derek Welch

Grandmother, daughter, and grandson arrested for Practicing Christianity in their home In the most recent case of religious persecution in China, a house church pastor, Xu Shizhen, her daughter and her 3-year-old...

Scientologists protest violation of their right to religious freedom in Hungary

20 Oct 2017
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WRN Editorial Staff

This week Scientology churches in Hungary were raided. via European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom Wednesday in Budapest, several hundreds of Scientologists gathered peacefully with candles...

More Americans Say Belief in God Is Not Necessary for Morality

18 Oct 2017
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C Barnett

White Americans who believe in God are a minority now. They also do not correlate belief in God with having good values. This percentage has increased from 49 percent in 2011. These are the results...

Europe Divided on Religious Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses

17 Oct 2017
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Derek Welch

Russian Ally South Ossetia Ban's Jehovah's Witnesses While Western Europe Continues To Condemn Actions There is increasing tension on religious persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Europe. On one hand,...

Business Cards Become New Battleground Over Religious Freedom

16 Oct 2017
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Elisa Meyer

Transgender Woman Denied Business Cards, Owner Cites Christian Beliefs The conflict between religious freedom and LGBT rights has shifted to the United Kingdom when a Christian printer refused to print...

U.N. Demands Immediate Release of Jehovah’s Witness in Kazakhstan

12 Oct 2017
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C Barnett

United Nations Calls Arrest and Detention of Teymur Akhmedov a Violation of Religious Freedom. The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) called on the immediate release of Teymur Akhmedov,...

Satanist Wins Case Saying Abortion Law Violates Her Religious Beliefs

10 Oct 2017
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Derek Welch

Missouri's abortion laws go against the First Amendment. An anonymous Missouri woman, identified only as Mary Doe in public court documents, has won a significant legal victory in Western District...

Alabama High Schools Are Battleground for Religious Freedom

08 Oct 2017
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Derek Welch

Can High Schools Use Christian Symbols? Alabama has become a battleground over religion in high schools. Several high schools have Christian songs or performances that have led to some protests from...

Is the Trump Administration Using Religion to Allow Discrimination?

06 Oct 2017
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Elisa Meyer

New Guidelines by Justice Department Show Problem with Religious Freedom Civil liberty groups are worried the United States is moving against secularism. Attorney General Jeff Sessions released a document...

Why Are Satanic Cakes Being Baked For Civil Rights?

03 Oct 2017
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Derek Welch

Satanic Temple Offers to Make Cakes to Help LGBT Community Cakes as civil rights? The Satanic Temple thinks so. Last Week, Lucien Greaves, the head of The Satanic Temple, offered assistance to same-sex...