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Category Archives: USA
God in Captivity: The Rise of Faith-Based Prison Ministries in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Tanya Erzen, Beacon Press, March 2017. ISBN-10: 0807089982
An eye-opening account of how and why evangelical Christian ministries are flourishing in prisons across the United States. It is by now well known that the United States’ incarceration rate is the highest in the world. What is not broadly … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion, Evangelism, News, USA
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Buddhist Fundamentalism?
There are innumerable accounts in the international media and academia on aggression against religious minorities, especially the Muslims, in the Buddhist majority countries in South and Southeast Asia. They report incitement of violence by ‘militant’ Buddhist monks of the the … Continue reading
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Impartial?Unbiased? Read On
SNAPSHOT The seemingly routine appointment of the new chairman to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom needs to be explained in the context of the situation to understand why it’s anything but routine. The United States Commission on … Continue reading
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Tagged Bias, US Commission on International Religious Freedom
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Parents Arrested After 19-Year-Old Dies in Church ‘Counseling Session’
NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) – Two teenage brothers were brutally beaten in church – one of them fatally – in an effort by their parents, sister and other members of the congregation to force them to confess their sins and … Continue reading
Public School Proselytizing Sparks Lawsuit in Miss. USA
The Rankin County, Miss., School District is facing a federal lawsuit because it allegedly sanctioned coercive proselytizing during three mandatory assemblies at Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood. The American Humanist Association (AHA) charged that Principal Charles Frazier and other … Continue reading
Proselytization and the Law
It is not only in non-Christian countries such as Sri Lanka, India that there is opposition to evangelism but in USA as well as these few news items show. It is time to bring an anti conversion law in Sri … Continue reading
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Tagged Evangelism, military, Proselytization, USA
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Posted in Evangelism, News, Religious Freedom, Religious Fundamentalism, USA
Tagged Evangelism, proselytisation, Religious fundamentalism, US Army, USA
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Proselytizing is Rape: US Military to Ban Religious Proselytizing
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is calling on the Air Force to enforce a regulation that they believe calls for the court martial of any service member caught proselytizing. President Mikey Weinstein is reported to have told Fox News that … Continue reading
Church Battles Efforts to Ease Sex Abuse Suits
Matt Rourke/Associated Press By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and ERIK ECKHOLM While the first criminal trial of a Roman Catholic church official accused of covering up child sexual abuse has drawn national attention to Philadelphia, the church has been quietly engaged in … Continue reading
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Sravasti Abbey: A Dream Fulfilled For U.S. Buddhist Nuns
By Tracy Simmons Religion News Service NEWPORT, Wash. (RNS) There aren't a lot of Buddhists in America — around 3 million or so, according to the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. There isn't exactly an abundance of monasteries here either, … Continue reading