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  • No Modern Inquisition0

    I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern Inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division.   —The late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, quoted in Great Quotations on Religious Freedom, compiled and edited by Albert J. Menendez and

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  • Faith in World's Newest State0

      This country belongs to all of us,&” affirmed President José Ramos-Horta of East Timor, adding with a smile, &”Heaven, of course, may be divided up.&” It was a lighthearted way of pointing out that there is full religious freedom under the constitution, and all religions are free to pursue their faith goals. East Timor

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  • Eighth Annual Religious Liberty Dinner0

    Without freedom of religious expression, no discussion of life’s fundamental questions—&”What is the meaning of life?&” and &”What are my rights and obligations?&”— is complete, a United States congressman said at this year’s Religious Liberty Dinner. &”It is my hope that the ‘marketplace of ideas’ always allows space for faith and religion—not to dominate, not

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  • At Least We Have Prayer0

    Götterdämmerung or Morte d’Arthur? Pardon my German and French—the significance is in the works of art they represent, not the languages. But first let me remark on the incredible events of May 6, 2010. We have been living in a financial house of cards since September 2008. We have become used to increasing unemployment, foreclosure

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  • Aliens for Their Faith0

    There is much religious intolerance in this new, twenty-first century. This is the tale of religious intolerance in an obscure country in East Africa called Eritrea. After fighting for its own freedom from Ethiopia for more than 30 years, this Marxist regime has forced a peace-loving community of Christians to become little more than aliens

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  • "Give Us This Prayer"0

    It wasn’t supposed to work like this. An atheist organization filed a lawsuit earlier in the year challenging the National Day of Prayer as a violation of the establishment clause. The hope was that, if the organization won, the suit wouldn’t be challenged by the Obama administration. After all, a liberal democratic president (a &”socialist,&”

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