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  • The Vision Thing0

    In the fall of 2011, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) formed the ad hoc committee for Religious Freedom, headed by Bishop William Lori. He appeared before the U. S. Senate on October 26 of that year to address the concerns of the Roman Catholic Church regarding the libertas ecclesiae (freedom of the church,

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  • For the Good of All0

    Have you noticed that when some people speak of religious liberty, they mean something different from individual religious liberty? They use the same term but they mean something else. In fact, there are two distinct approaches to religious freedom: majoritarian and individual. Protestants and Enlightenment philosophers, from the founding era of our nation, tended to

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  • Inside Interfaith Iran0

    For the past few months the eyes of the believers around the world have been fixed on an Iranian death row "apostate" who has refused to recant his faith in Jesus Christ. Yousef Nadarkhani was first arrested in his hometown of Rasht, Iran, in October 2009, for violating the law by his protesting the mandatory

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  • Sadness Within Islam0

    As a Muslim I am saddened to see the state of Islam today. Once again the beautiful message of Islam and the example of the prophet Muhammad is totally absent in the recent verdict by Saudi Arabia's grand mufti Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah. He has called for the destruction of all Christian churches in the

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  • Jeopardy0

    "The public schools of this country serve the admirable function of bringing together on common ground students from a diversity of cultural and religious backgrounds. The introduction of public prayer into such a setting jeopardizes the sense of community and unnecessarily intrudes an emotional and divisive character." Rabbi David Polish, in testimony on behalf of

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  • An Act of Faith0

    From earliest days I was taught to respect the Bible as God's holy Word. In particular that meant respecting the actual physical Bible. It was to be handled with reverence; never thrown away carelessly, and never stacked under lesser books. It was even suggested by some that I not mark up my Bible; but I

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