The 15-year prison sentence given to a woman and her seven children by an Egyptian court for converting to Christianity is a sign of things to come, according to alarmed human rights advocates who say the nation's Islamist government is bad news for Christians in the North African country.
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January 16th, 2013
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January 15th, 2013
British Airways check-in clerk Nadia Eweida triumphed over the airline yesterday after a six-year battle to wear her cross at work.
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January 15th, 2013
A British Airways employee suffered discrimination at work over her Christian beliefs, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled.
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January 15th, 2013
A Christian nurse who lost her discrimination-at-work case at the European Court of Human Rights has said she plans to appeal.
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January 15th, 2013
Christians’ rights of conscience are being sacrificed on the altar of “obsessive political correctness” contrary to the values of a democratic society, two European human rights judges have claimed.
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January 15th, 2013
A British Airways employee has won a landmark legal battle over her right to wear a cross at work.
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January 15th, 2013
The recent court cases underline the relentless secular persecution that exists in Great Britain in 2013. Although Nadia Eweida won her case for wearing a cross at work, three other Christians had their cases rejected.
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January 15th, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris on Sunday decrying the French president's plan to legalize same-sex marriage and adoptions.
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January 15th, 2013
In the Republic of Ireland, same-sex couples can enter a civil partnership, but now the debate has moved on to whether or not they should be permitted to marry.
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January 15th, 2013
The UK’s equalities watchdog called today for a new law to guarantee workers the right to wear religious insignia after conflicting rulings today from a European court.