Washington, DC – Yesterday Gabe Galanda, Chairman of the Huy Board of Advisors, delivered an intervention in Washington, DC to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom or Belief, Ahmed Shaheed, regarding obstacles Indigenous prisoners in the United States face to enjoying and exercising the right to freedom of religion or belief. Shaheed held a consultation with Indigeneous peoples from the United States regarding obstacles they face in exercising traditional religious freedoms. In October 2022, he will issue a report at the United Nations General Assembly regarding impediments to Indigenous religious rights worldwide. The Native American Rights Fund also delivered an intervention to the Special Rapporteur. […]
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has attacked President Donald Trump for supposedly goading Orthodox Jews into fighting his targeted shutdown orders with theatrical protests – and lawsuits – based on a prank call. Cuomo tore into the president during a call with reporters on Friday in which he defended the zoned economic shutdown orders imposed in several Covid-19 “hotspots” across the state earlier this week. Trump, Cuomo said, was a “divisive force” trying to “inflame divisions” among New Yorkers – especially Orthodox Jews. Also on rt.com Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews burn masks in uprising against Gov. Cuomo’s new anti-Covid synagogue occupancy restrictions […]
A federal judge has rejected a request to repeal statewide restrictions on religious gatherings in Colorado, insisting the coronavirus still poses too great a risk to residents. The move was scorched by civil liberties advocates. US District Judge Christine Arguello ruled this week that allowing such gatherings would “present a high risk of harm to the state of Colorado as well as the public in general,” declining to overturn a 175-person limit on religious events imposed by Governor Jared Polis. “Numerous courts have considered, and persuasively rejected, nearly identical arguments,” Arguello wrote in her decision, referring to the case brought by […]
In a bizarre attempt at protecting the right to abortions under “religious freedom,” the Satanic Temple is urging women to recite satanic incantations during them as a “satanic abortion ritual.” The Satanic Temple is protesting waiting periods, mandatory counseling, and “unwanted sonograms,” by claiming that abortion is a satanic practice and should be protected due to religious freedom. In a press release sent to the Gateway Pundit by a spokesperson, the Satanic Temple said that “Satanists are exempt from these regulations if they undergo first-trimester abortions in accordance with TST’s religious ritual. The satanic abortion ritual involves the recitation of TST’s […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/03/1080050740_0:0:3000:1688_1200x675_80_0_0_f34d2fabe963419f887d7cccd95ada86.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008031080050789-maryland-governor-bans-blanket-closures-of-private-religious-schools-by-local-officials/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – An attempt by a county government in the US state of Maryland to force all private and religious schools to remain closed prompted an emergency order that returns the decision to schools themselves, Governor Larry Hogan said in a press release on Monday. “Over the last several weeks, school boards and superintendents made their own decisions about how and when to reopen public schools, after consultation with state and local health officials”, Hogan said. “Private and parochial [religious] schools deserve the same opportunity and flexibility to make reopening decisions based on […]
In Russia, where President Vladimir Putin wants to insert references to God and heterosexual marriage into the constitution, certain forms of violence against women have been decriminalized—so long as the violence takes place within a traditional marriage. In Poland, where abortion access is already severely restricted, President Andrzej Duda has promised to sign draft legislation that would compel women to carry to term fetuses with severe congenital deformities, and a third of municipalities have declared themselves “LGBT-free zones”—all in order to “defend Christian values,” as one leader of the ruling party puts it. In Turkey, reports of gender-based violence have risen […]
US Claims Religious Repression Underway In Vietnam, But Where’s The Evidence? By Amiad Horowitz, People’s World. July 11, 2020 US Claims Religious Repression Underway In Vietnam, But Where’s The Evidence?2020-07-112020-07-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/a-buddhist-pagoda-in-central-vietnam.-by-amiad-horowitz-pw-e1594491351256.jpg200px200px Above photo: A Buddhist pagoda in central Vietnam. by Amiad Horowitz, PW. Recently, the U.S. Department of State issued a report in which they claimed that religious freedom is being suppressed in Vietnam. The Vietnamese government is of course capable of speaking for itself and responding to this defamation. However, I think that Americans also have a responsibility to speak out against baseless claims made by our reactionary government. And as an American living in […]
A Wilmington, North Carolina police officer who was fired for taking part in a violently racist conversation has filed an appeal, claiming his comments were protected religious speech. Wilmington Police officer James “Brian” Gilmore was one of three officers fired last month for taking part in recorded racist conversations. One of those conversations, for which Gilmore was not present, involved racist slurs and talk of massacring Black Americans in a second Civil War. Gilmore claims that, because he only explicitly made reference to white people “worshipping” Black people, his comments were not racist but stemmed from his religious convictions against idolatry. […]
The California state government has issued a directive barring singing and chanting at religious services, citing dangers posed by Covid-19. The order has been condemned as blatantly discriminatory, some even deeming it illegal. The new mandate, issued earlier this week, “strongly” recommends that all religious gatherings be conducted remotely, but offers additional rules for those who insist on worshiping in person – including the controversial ban on singing, a common practice across a number of faiths. “Activities such as singing and chanting negate the risk reduction achieved through six feet of physical distancing,” the new guidelines say. Places of worship must […]
Christians and Jews are being openly persecuted against in the United States while Black Lives Matter militants are given special treatment. There is zero equality under the law. This is pure Marxism. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday defended his decision to ban religious gatherings while allowing Black Lives Matter militants and Antifa domestic terrorists to raise hell in the streets. TRENDING: Woke Harvard Senior Claims TikTok Video of Her Saying She’ll Stab and Watch Bleed Out the Next Person with ‘Caucasity’ to Say All Lives Matter is a Joke “The protests were an entirely different reality, a national phenomenon, […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): An independent bipartisan commission on international religious freedom suggested to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in April to downgrade India’s religious freedom rating. Pompeo did not act on it. He did not even make any reference to India while releasing the latest report on international religious freedom on Wednesday. The annual International Religious Freedom Report submitted to the US Congress on Wednesday (10 July) has listed several alleged violations of religious freedom in India. The country report on India referred to the stripping of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, cow vigilantism, Citizenship Act, anti-conversion laws, and several other […]
US 01:36 GMT 03.06.2020Get short URL In its 2020 annual report on international religious freedom, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has claimed that several nations, including Russia, China, Iran and, for the first time, India, should be included in the list of so-called “countries of particular concern”. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that directs the US State Department to take action “ensuring” religious freedom in countries that are identified by the US as violating the freedom to adhere to one’s faith of choice. The newly introduced order envisages a yearly budget of […]
As universities and pharmaceutical companies race to put out the first COVID-19 vaccine, some sectors of the religious right are gearing up to fight it, based on tenuous ties to what they call “the abortion industry” and a biblical teaching about “the mark of the beast.” LifeSite News, a Catholic, anti-abortion website, has gathered more than 350,000 signatures on a petition protesting mandatory coronavirus vaccination orders—none of which have actually been issued. The petition starts with the kind of big-government concerns that have become a hallmark of anti-shutdown protests, claiming that “fear of a disease” could inadvertently lead to support for […]