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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• EU commission demands Britian to abolish laws protecting religious freedom rights in anti-discrimination laws.

  
  Values Voter News — Authority: 148
  Related: In Europe a heated battle is waging between the EU and national sovereignty. European Parliament votes 349 to 218 to condemn Lithuanias law on protecting minors from homosexuality, bisexuality and polygamy. Click here for link to actual debate in the British House of Lords as they recently debated and ...
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• Report: ‘Serious violations’ of human rights in Turkey

  
  AOI Observer — Authority: 516
  Here’s an introductory clip from Forum 18’s “TURKEY: Religious freedom survey, November 2009″:Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council May 2010 Universal Periodic Review of Turkey, Forum 18 News Service has found that the country continues to see serious violations of international human rights standards on ...
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• Lawsuit Challenges Reference to God at US Capitol Visitor Center

  
  Free Christian Press — Authority: 139
  WASHINGTON, DC /Christian News/ — The nation’s top conservative public interest law firm is once again battling to protect America’s heritage. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has filed an amicus brief on behalf of 44 members of Congress asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the ...
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• Over 150,000 Sign Manhattan Declaration in Less than a Week

  
  Free Christian Press — Authority: 139
  (LifeSiteNews.com) — The unprecedented pro-life, pro-marriage and pro-religious freedom Manhattan Declaration, unveiled in a press conference last Friday, has already been signed by over 150,000 individuals in less than a week, and the numbers are continuing to rise by the second.The 4,700-word “Manhattan ...
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• Council of Europe Resolution Will Regulate Right to Conscientious Objection

  
  The United Families International Blog — Authority: 431
  The Council of Europe is currently debating a new draft resolution that would make a women’s right to abortion legally superior to a doctor or health care provider’s conscientious or religious objection to such procedures. The new resolution, entitled “”Women’s access to lawful medical care: the problem of ...
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• Crackdown in Kyrgyzstan

  
  2 Worlds Collide — Authority: 119
  Unregistered religious activity is now outlawed in Kyrgyzstan under the Religion Law which was passed in January.  Muslims, which garner the ethnic majority in the nation, have registered their mosques with ease while Protestant congregations and other religious minorities, which have several hurdles to overcome in ...
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• Native believers taken hostage, under pressure to recant their faith

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 138
  Sixteen members of Colombia’s Kogui tribe were recently kidnapped in an attempt to force them to recant their Christianity, says Voice of the Martyrs Canada. Currently held in a remote location, these believers won’t be released until they renounce their faith in Christ, reports MNN.Consisting of men, women and ...
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• Switzerland: Minaret Ban would Breach Religious Freedom

  
  loonwatch.com — Authority: 422
  The Swiss people will be going to the polls on Sunday to vote on a referendum on whether or not to ban Minarets. Amnesty International has stated that they if a ban on Minarets passes it will be a breach of religious freedom. Amnesty International: Ban would breach religious freedom A ban on the construction of ...
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• A More Serious Threat to Catholic Identity than Removing Public Crucifixes

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 649
  In his article “Benedict’s ongoing battle against secularism,” National Catholic Reporter columnist John Allen claims that European secular attacks on Catholicism led to Pope Benedict XVI’s recent controversial decisions to allow the Society of St. Pius X and conservative Anglicans into the Catholic…
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• Catching a cold in Mecca: Turkmen pilgrims forced to stay home

  
  neweurasia.net — Authority: 498
  Image by neweurasias Schwartz (CC-usage). Click on it to read the story by the Chronicles of Turkmenistan. This year, more than two million people across the world are heading, as if pulled by a magnet, to one single spot on earth: Mecca.  But no Turkmen will be joining this great human current.  Although ...
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• Repost – The First Thanksgiving

  
  RochesterConservative.com — Authority: 424
  Here’s original accounts about the First Thanksgiving and how it became a national holiday, from the Pilgrim Hall Museum website. Please comment and share with us, your family traditions on Thanksgiving and what you are thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving to All RochesterConservative.com readers and authors! The ...
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• Church in Gilbert sign flap may soon have permanent home

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Arizona Republic : "Religion speech should not be treated as a First Amendment orphan, said Defense Fund attorneyDavid Cortman. Churches should certainly have the same First Amendment rights to speak, and thats the principle of this case."
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• N.H. high court to hear case of girl ordered out of homeschooling

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Christian Post : "Courts can settle disputes, but they cannot legitimately order a child into a government-run school on the basis that her religious views need to be mixed with other views. That’s precisely what the lower court admitted it is doing in this case, and that’s where our concern lies, said Alliance ...
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• Tale of two creation films denied First Amendment rights on Darwin’s anniversary

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Earned Media : "In a letter dated Nov. 23, 2009, Daniel Blomberg, ADF litigation counsel, informed the USSRC executives that their refusal is in direct violation of Vision Forums First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, and he highlighted the fact that the USSRC had shown two pro-evolutionary films, The Magic of Flight ...
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• Germany: Judge Fines Homeschoolers, No Jail Sentence

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  HLSDA : "Jurgen and Rosemarie Dudek of Archfeld, Germany, were found guilty under the German State of Hessen’s criminal law that requires that all children go to school. Even as Judge Drier recognized that the family was doing a fine job in educating their children, he still imposed a fine of 120 euros on them."
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• Why he signed the Manhattan Declaration

  
  AOI Observer — Authority: 516
  R. Albert Mohler Jr., the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes on his blog that he is not usually “inclined to sign manifestos or petitions.” Because he is not reluctant to speak out on matters of faith and on public square issues, he is not usually “impressed” with public statements ...
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• Fla. school district agrees to end ban on fliers for children’s event at church

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  ADF filed suit after district refused to allow church to participate in flier program open to other community groups.
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• Mayflower Compact

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  "Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia, [We] Do by these Presents solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine our selves ...
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• Lawsuit Challenges Museum’s Cancellation of Pro-Intelligent Design Film

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Religion Clause Blog : "A press release yesterday from the American Freedom Alliance (AFA) reports on a lawsuit it has filed against the California Science Center (CSC). AFA says its free expression rights were infringed when CSC, a state agency, cancelled a scheduled showing in its IMAX Theater of "We Are Born of ...
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