GENEVA (4 December 2020) – Geneva’s total ban on religious services and events has been suspended by the Swiss Constitutional Chamber of the Canton of Geneva. The court has yet to decide whether the ban is a violation of the...
Published on 04 Dec 2020
GENEVA (1 December 2020) – Can the state ban all religious services while allowing other public gatherings to continue? In Geneva, concerned citizens filed a legal challenge against the total...
Published on 01 Dec 2020
BRUSSELS (30 November 2020) – Government restrictions on religious freedom have reached their highest levels...
Published on 30 Nov 2020
MINYA (27 November 2020) – Omar* has spent over three months in prison in Egypt for a post on Facebook. He was accused of sharing a post about Christianity which...
Published on 27 Nov 2020
LONDON (25 November 2020) – Why ban prayer in public? A single mother is seeking justice at the European Court of Human Rights in response to Ealing Council’s criminalisation of prayer and counselling outside of an abortion facility. The court’s decision has the potential to impact 820 million Europeans from 47...
Published on 25 Nov 2020
NOTTINGHAM (25 November 2020) - Are universities stifling students’ views? Midwifery student Julia Rynkiewicz believes so, and her newly-settled case provides one such example. Rynkiewicz served as president of “Nottingham Students for Life”, a pro-life student society that was...
Published on 25 Nov 2020
BERLIN (25 November 2020) – Are Bible verses allowed to be displayed in public? A court in Berlin has upheld a restaurant owner’s right to freedom of speech...
Published on 25 Nov 2020
LONDON (6th November 2020) - Universities are supposed to be bastions of free speech. Yet according to a nation-wide poll released today by ADF International (UK), almost 40% of students admit fears that expressing their views on campus could adversely affect their future career opportunities. Over a third...
Published on 18 Nov 2020
NEW DELHI (12 November 2020) – With more than 200 attacks on Christians in India this year so far recorded by the United Christian Forum violence monitor, violence against religious...
Published on 12 Nov 2020
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