Moving from Interfaith Dialogue to Multifaith Action
Amjad Saleem, State of Formation, Feb.4 This week, the international community will be marking World Interfaith Harmony Week designated by the United Nations to occur annually in the first full week...
View ArticleCanada’s new religious freedom ambassador says he’ll give a louder voice to...
Joseph Brean, National Post, Feb.19 Andrew P. W. Bennett, Canada’s first ambassador of religious freedom, is a Christian academic studying toward a theology degree in Ottawa, an expert on Scottish...
View ArticleEnd blasphemy laws threatening minorities: U.N. faith expert
Robert Evans, Reuters, Mar.06 Countries should repeal all laws punishing blasphemy and people who leave a faith, the United Nations’ top expert on freedom of religion said on Wednesday, thrusting...
View ArticleCanadian prisoners sue over lack of chaplains
Ron Csillag, Religion News Service, Apr.02 Inmates in British Columbia have filed suit to overturn a decision by the Canadian government to cut part-time prison chaplains, alleging that the policy has...
View ArticleUS Promotion of International Religious Freedom
Katrina Lantos Swett, Zenit, Apr.03 At this time of global change, when questions of religion and state relations are being redefined, the universal right to freedom of religion or belief has never...
View ArticleDoxa-cum-Praxis: Paradoxical Interfaith.
Joseph McLendon, State of Formation, Mar.29 Quakers are an interesting bunch in that our religious practice is precisely that: practice. Surrounding this word, minds like de Certeau and Jackson are...
View ArticleFaith and Marriage
John Turner, Patheos, Apr.18 Interfaith marriage is skyrocketing in contemporary America. A generation ago, around fifteen percent of Americans married outside their faith, which probably mostly meant...
View ArticleTelevision must embrace all religions, Archbishop of Canterbury says
Hannah Furness, The Telegraph, May 07. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, has said television must celebrate all faiths openly, without hiding behind “closed doors”. If it fails,...
View ArticleIran must free the Bahá’í leaders who have been jailed for five years too many
Omid Djalili, The Guardian, May 16 Today is the fifth anniversary of the unjust imprisonment of seven Bahá’í leaders in Iran. They were jailed for 20 years for no reason other than their beliefs – the...
View ArticleAssessing the Kirk’s report on theologies of land in the context of...
Michael Marten, Ekklesia, May 24 At a meeting of the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly, on 23 May 2013, a report from the Church and Society Council on theology of land in the context of...
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