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| Recently a café owner in Lancashire was told by police to stop projecting Bible verses on a screen because it breached public order laws. The Salt and Light Coffee House in Blackpool has continued, following legal advice. It is being supported by the Christian Institute. | |
| Religious Persecution | Christianity, November 2011 |
| America has called for the release of a pastor sentenced to death in Iran for switching faiths. And his lawyer said yesterday he is hopeful an appeals court will acquit his client. White House spokesman Jay Carney said 32-year-old Yusuf Naderkhani, who converted to Christianity when he was 19, has done nothing more than stay devoted to his faith. He said Iran’s attempt to force him to renounce the faith ‘crosses all bounds of decency’ and breaches Iran’s international obligations. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Sentinel - September 30 2011 |
| The United Kingdom has been bracketed with Russia, China and Nigeria as countries with rising levels of religious intolerance, in a new study from the Washington-based Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. In Rising Restrictions On Religion, almost a third of the world’s 6.9 billion people are shown to live in countries where religious intolerance or hostility has grown. | |
| Religious Persecution | Salvationist, 3 September 2011 |
| The state equality watchdog has set out a plan for a two-tier law for Christians. It said that they should be free to display their faith by wearing crosses or pinning up religious symbols at work. But Christians should not be allowed to follow religious principles if they clash with gay rights, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said. The decision means the quango will back British Airways check-in clerk Nadia Eweida, who was banned from wearing a cross at work. Though BA eventually caved in, Miss Eweida is taking her case to the European human rights court to try to establish a right for Christians to wear symbols of their faith. | |
| Religious Persecution | Salvationist August 27 2011 |
| An atheist group filed a lawsuit on July 25 to prevent the World Trade Center cross from being displayed at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City. American Atheists claims that the government installation of the religious symbol is an unconstitutional ‘mingling of church and state’ and insists that no religious symbols should be included. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now September 2011 |
| A Christian radio station in June was allowed to go to court to challenge a ban on an advert which asked Christians to report experiences of workplace marginalisation. The Radio Advertising Clearance Centre banned the ad from being aired, ruling that it was politically motivated. But Premier Christian Radio rejected that, saying the ad addresses a legitimate issue faced by Christians. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now August 2011 |
| A mental health worker in June was sacked following a Committed Christian Margaret Forrester showed fellow family planning staff a booklet explaining some of the physical and psychological effects of pregnancy termination. The psychological wellbeing practitioner believed the NHS was failing to inform patients about the risks associated with abortion and didn’t offer alternatives. After six months of disciplinary procedures, Ms. Forrester was sacked for ‘gross professional misconduct’ when she failed to turn up for work in a different role she had been forced to take as punishment. She now calls the pro-abortion bias of the NHS a ‘scandal’, claims that Christians are discriminated against by politically-correct NHS managers and is considering an appeal to an employment tribunal. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now August 2011 |
| Leaders of the Algerian Protestant Church (EPA) met the Wali of Begaia, the senior magistrate in the region, on June 8 after a police high commissioner ordered the closure of all unregistered churches ‘across the national territory’. The magistrate assured EPA leaders that despite the police order, no church in the region would be closed and he would personally see to the protection and continuity of the Protestant church’s activities. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now July 2011 |
| Nearly three years after the vicious 2008 attacks by Hindu radicals in Orissa left dozens of Christians dead and thousands injured, there has been just one conviction for murder, with thousands of complaints disregarded by the authorities. Church activists list 91 murder cases, which include the 38 Christians who died at the scene, plus 41 who later died of injuries sustained in the violence and 12 who died in police action. In 20 cases brought to date, there has been just one conviction for murder. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now July 2011 |
| In May, a Christian weatherman in California was fired from his job after objecting to his TV station running racy footage for a 5pm story about local strip clubs, while, in Toronto, a TV host was fired for expressing his support for traditional marriage. KERO-TV’s chief weatherman, Jack Church, said that he was standing up for his Christian values when he asked executives at the station not to air the story. Meanwhile in Canada, host Damian Goddard was fired by TV show Rogers Sportsnet after making comments in support of a hockey agent’s stand against same-sex marriage for New York. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now July 2011 |
| Defending police raids on three Protestant churches in Sumgait within three days in mid-May, an Interior Ministry official said that the police ‘did well’. After a raid on the Sunday worship service of one of the congregations, held in a local restaurant, two church members were each fined about two weeks’ average local wages on May 18. On May 17, some 20 police officers raided a private flat where members of another local church were meeting, seizing about 60 books. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now July 2011 |
| A 31-year-old Asian woman who works in a pharmacy in Tower Hamlets, London, has received death threats for refusing to wear a veil, it was reported in late May. The Daily Mail reported that the woman’s boss was apparently approached by a man who told him that his employee must cover her head and wear longer robes. A witness to a second man, who came into the pharmacy and started shouting at her, said that the man threatened that he would kill her if she did not comply with his demands. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now July 2011 |
| Pastors from unregistered churches (‘house churches’) in China in May lodged an unprecedented petition with the Chinese parliament calling for religious freedom and a peaceful resolution to the ongoing conflict involving one of Beijing’s largest house churches. The bold move – the first of its kind in 60 years of repressive Communist rule in China – follows the detention and house arrest of hundreds of members of Shouwang Church, which has attempted to stage outdoor worship services over five consecutive Sundays. The move is backed by Chinese church pastors in the United States and Canada who have launched a worldwide ‘Help Shouwang’ signature campaign; they hope that drawing international attention to the persecution of the church will stay the Chinese government’s hand in meting out even harsher punishments against it. All of the church’s leadership have been under informal arrest since April 9. At least 169 Christians were rounded up by up to 1,000 police officers during the first meeting; 47 were detained the following week, and on Easter Sunday at least 34 were arrested while a further 500 were confined to their homes. More have been detained each Sunday since and, on June 5, at least 20 were arrested 16 of whom were released by midnight with the other four released the next day (these figures have been updated from Religion Today) | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now July 2011 |
| About 100 campaigners protested outside the Eritrean Embassy, calling for religious freedom in the African country. Release International, one of the groups which took part in the demonstration, says that about 1,500 Christians have been imprisoned for their faith by the one party state. | |
| Religious Persecution | The War Cry June 2011 |
| Christian lawyers are hailing a request by the European Court of Human Rights to the British Government to state whether it believes the rights of Christians have been infringed in recent cases where people have been penalised for expressing their faith in the workplace. Some examples are: Nadia Eweida, a British Airlines employee who was prevented from wearing a cross; Shirley Chaplin, a nurse who was also banned from wearing a cross around her neck when working on hospital wards and Gary McFarlane, who lost his job as a counsellor with ‘Relate’ because he would not give sex therapy to homosexual couples. | |
| Religious Persecution | Church Of England June 10, 2011 |
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