US call to protect religious freedom at UN General Assembly
Yesterday, in a speech during the United Nations General Assembly, United States President Donald Trump announced a “global call to protect religious freedom.”
His speech marks the first time a sitting US President has ever spoken on the issue of religious freedom at the UN.
In the Wall Street Journal ADF International’s Director of Advocacy for Global Religious Freedom, Kelsey Zorzi, explains how the President has championed religious freedom more vigorously than any of his predecessors.
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Religious Freedom
- India: Each NGO member will have to declare no association with religious conversion
– Economic Times - Algeria: Church closures are part of a ‘systematic campaign’ against Christians
– Premier - Geneva: Pakistani Christians hold protest march against forced conversion, blasphemy law
– ANI - Decade of tears and blood: 10 years of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria
– Morning Star News - Russia widens Jehovah’s Witnesses crackdown with new jailings
– Reuters - US: President’s focus on religious freedom at the UN should lead the way
– Daily Signal
Marriage & Family
- Switzerland Supreme Court denies mother’s right to homeschool her son
– CBN - Scotland: Justice committee seeks views on family breakdown plans
– Scottish Legal News - Australia: Transgender people to get choice between men’s and women’s public bathrooms
– Mail - UK: Academics criticise traffic light ‘safe space’ badges at transgender conference
– Telegraph
Sanctity of Life
- Slovakia: Tens of thousands march for ban on abortions
– Reuters - Indian Australians say sex selective abortions do happen in New South Wales
– ABC - US: Abortion front and center as new Supreme Court term nears
– Reuters - Pope decries euthanasia as Italian court considers assisted suicide law
– The Local Italy - Majority of Irish people support legalising assisted suicide
– Journal IE
