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Sao Paulo Has Its Day of Religious Freedom 0
- September/October 2013
- September 4, 2013
The very first mega festival of religious liberty was held in 2006 in São Paulo. At that time 12,000 people filled an indoor stadium. This was soon followed by festivals on five continents. The two largest ones were held in stadiums in Luanda, Angola (2008), and in Lima, Peru (2009). Crowds of tens of thousands
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The State as Step-Parent 0
- September/October 2013
- September 4, 2013
The protection of freedom of religion afforded by s. 2(a) of the [Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms] is broad and jealously guarded in our Charter jurisprudence.”1 So said the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004. Times have changed. Given the recent decision of the court in the case of S. L. v. Commission scolaire
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"When Will We Overcome Religious Intolerance?"0
- September/October 2013
- September 4, 2013
Recent events have called into question just how much progress humankind has made. The April 15, 2013, bombing in Boston, Massachusetts, disrupted more than just a marathon; it caused several fatalities, including the death of a child, and maimed and injured more than 100 others. Along with the immediate task of coping with yet another
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More Than Any Day 0
- September/October 2013
- September 4, 2013
It wasn’t exactly headline news, even in 1882, though for the then very small (17,169 members) and relatively new (founded in 1863) religious group, called the Seventh-day Adventists, it was a harbinger of things to come. In Oakland, California, Willie C. White, a son of two founders of the church, and superintendent of the Pacific
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