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• Canada's Foreign Minister to Speak at Washington Religious Liberty Event
The Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C., will host the 10th annual Religious Liberty Dinner, May 24, 2012. The event comes as Canada moves to establish an Office of Religious Freedom to monitor and promote religious freedom as part of Canada?s foreign policy. There will be press availability with Minister John Baird prior to the dinner. ...
• Canadian Bishops Offer Defense of Religious Freedom
OTTAWA, Ontario, MAY 15, 2012 ( Zenit.org ).- Canada's bishops on Monday released a major pastoral letter on the issue of religious freedom. The statement addresses the "disturbing trend" of threats to freedom of conscience and religion at an international and national level.
• Lord Alton: Religious freedom is intrinsic aspect of human dignity
LONDON (CNS) -- Christians must insist that religious freedom is an intrinsic aspect of human dignity, said a senior British lay Catholic.
• Sebelius speech embraces church, state separation
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius paid homage to religious freedom and the separation of church and state in a graduation speech Friday at Georgetown University that was briefly interrupted by an anti-abortion heckler.
• Cry wolf: Do Catholic bishops misrepresent the threat to religious freedom?
American has a long history of defending religious freedom. U.S. Catholic bishops’ argue that the Obama administration, specifically its healthcare mandate for coverage of birth control, is a threat to this tradition of religious freedom, even with the Obama compromise of a broadened exemption for religiously affiliated organizations. The U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops deemed ...