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Religious News from Around the Web April 13, 2020

13 Apr 2020
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WRN Editorial Staff

COVID-19 and Religious Freedom, Sikhs Risk Safety to Help, Worldwide Fast for Healing, Latter-day Saints Open Temples in Unexpected Places, Children’s Medical Data to be Kept from Parents? Will COVID-19...

Russian Court Denies Appeal by Dennis Christensen

24 May 2019
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Alison Lesley

The six-year prison term of the Jehovah’s Witness is upheld On May 7, 2019, World Religion News reported on . He was arrested in May 2017 while attending a Jehovah's witness worship service on Oryol....

JeM Leader Masood Azhar Deemed Global Terrorist

03 May 2019
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Alison Lesley

China changed its stance after pressure The JeM's latest act of terror was the Pulwama bombing in Indian administered Kashmir, where a suicide bomber killed 40 Indian army personnel. New Delhi termed...

Nikki Haley Slams China’s ‘Free Vocational Training’ Internment Camps

17 Oct 2018
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Gary Nguyen

More than one million ethnic minorities are detained in the internment camp. , specifically Uighur Muslims. She described the scene as one of the biggest civilian internments in the present world,...

Pastor Andrew Brunson’s Fate Will Be Decided by Turkish Court

30 Sep 2018
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Derek Welch

The Turkish lira has suffered due to US retaliatory action. President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, during his visit to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly meetings, said a Turkish...

UN Accuses Myanmar of Genocide Against Rohingya Muslims

28 Aug 2018
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Gary Nguyen

It was done to stop the further distribution of hate The UN report stated that the state machinery had “genocidal intent.” It also recommended that the Myanmarese commander-in-chief and the country's...

Chinese Spokesperson Refutes Claims China has Muslim Internment Camps

15 Aug 2018
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Gary Nguyen

Foreign minister spokesperson says there are ulterior motives behind these unfounded claims and criticisms In a response to a – an ethnic Muslim minority in the north-western part of the country...

UN Will Recruit Interpreters and Midwives to Persuade Rohingya Women to Use Birth Control

06 Jun 2018
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Nathan Glover

Refugees want large families to survive Human rights groups have complained that a campaign led by Nadja Wolfe of World Youth Alliance (WYA) expressed her concern that the United Nations Population...

Launching Year-Long Campaign Leading Up to the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

11 Dec 2017
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Linda Wieland

Commemorating the December 10, 1948, adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations, Scientology Churches and Missions launch a year of activities to raise awareness...

Pope Francis Calls for Respect of ‘Status-Quo’ in Jerusalem

07 Dec 2017
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Gary Nguyen

Pope Francis met senior leaders of the Palestinian Authority , pointing out that renewed tension in the Middle East would increase world conflicts. He spoke this piece a few hours before President...