We need to work with religious groups because they are a source of values and our natural allies in the fight for justice.
In the News
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September 28th, 2010
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September 28th, 2010
New research suggests closing down extremist Islamic websites is no substitute for directly challenging their religious ideology.
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September 28th, 2010
'Rights Inflation,' as I call it, is a growing pet peeve. Here?s what I mean: Too many policy advocates these days attempt to elevate what they consider to be desirable public polices to the status of basic human rights.
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September 28th, 2010
The Alliance Defense Fund has announced that pastors from approximately 100 churches nationwide participated in the Alliance Defense Fund?s third annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday on Sept 26.
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September 27th, 2010
The four Christian missionaries charged with disturbing the peace for preaching at the Dearborn International Arab Festival were vindicated on Friday, with one of the four found guilty of failing to comply with a police order and all four acquitted on the main charge of disturbing the peace.
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September 27th, 2010
It was the decade that 'feminised' men, and made women more masculine. On Saturday, historian Dominic Sandbrook described how in the Seventies feminists helped to reverse the traditional concepts of gender.
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September 27th, 2010
Campaigners have raised concerns that proposals to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland will encourage disabled people to kill themselves.
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September 27th, 2010
It might be called a match made in heaven. The United Nations is partnering with faith based organizations and their vast network of donors, development groups, and grass roots organizers to bring aid to developing countries around the world. You could say they are putting their money where their mouth is. Except both groups have been putting money up for a long time.
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September 27th, 2010
A human rights organization has learned that two more Christian foreigners have been expelled from Morocco on charges of proselytizing, while other foreign organizations continue to be investigated.
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September 27th, 2010
A Pentecostal pastor Shivanda Siddi was arrested in Karnataka yesterday, with the false accusation of forcing conversions to Christianity. Sajan K. George, chairman of the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) told AsiaNews that he was simply celebrating Sunday services at his Church Gnanodaya ('Dawn of Knowledge) in the Umachagi village, Mundgod Taluk.