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- February 6, 2015
As the Arab Spring continues to unfold and degrade across the Middle East, Christians in Syria find themselves watching with a wary eye to see how their freedoms will be affected by the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Some Syrian Christians believe that Assad has been their friend, since he has provided protection to
READ MOREWhen the United States Supreme Court decided in 1992 that invocations and benedictions by a clergyman at a public high school graduation violated the Establishment Clause, Justice Antonin Scalia dissented, asserting: "Justice Holmes' aphorism that 'a page of history is worth a volume of logic . . . ,' applies with particular force to our
READ MOREThe concept of separation evolved during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from two movements. The Enlightenment view, so ably expounded by people like John Milton and John Locke, emphasized liberty of conscience in religious matters and implied a minimum of state involvement with religion. As early as 1644 Milton affirmed in his Areopagitica, "Give me
READ MOREThe meeting of Shakers started with silent meditation. Ann Lee, a young woman of medium height and serious manner, told them about her vision. She claimed that just as the male and female are seen throughout the animal and vegetable kingdoms, so had God appeared in both forms. “It is not I that speak,” she
READ MOREThe turmoil in Egypt has led to the spilling of considerable quantities of ink and blood since it all started on January 25. The regime of Hosni Mubarak is already a footnote on the pages of history, but the near and longer-term future remains to be spelled out. One concern is what it all means
READ MORELima, Peru, was host to the first World Festival of Religious Freedom. On June 13, 2009, more than 40,000 people came to the National Stadium to say publicly thank you to God and to the country of Peru for religious freedom. In doing so they made history! Such a mass meeting to celebrate an essential
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