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America Magazine is a Jesuit Catholic publication that covers news, culture, and faith from a Catholic perspective. Their Religious Freedom section covers news and analysis related to religious freedom issues in the United States and around the world.
America Magazine » Religious Freedom
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Even as Prime Minister Victor Orban positions his government as one of the last defenders of Christian culture in Europe, religious affiliation in Hungary has dropped to a record low ..read more
America Magazine » Religious Freedom
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“Tell me, how does climate change drive someone to hack a person to death with a machete ..read more
‘We will not be intimidated’: Bishop Seitz responds to Texas attempt to shut down Catholic nonprofit
America Magazine » Religious Freedom
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"This is not about politics," Bishop Seitz said. "It's about the Gospel ..read more
America Magazine » Religious Freedom
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As many as 295 people were killed in a series of apparently coordinated raids on some 30 villages in Nigeria’s Plateau State that began on Dec. 23 and continued through Christmas Day ..read more
America Magazine » Religious Freedom
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Education changed peoples’ hearts and minds and led to the abolition of the slave trade in the 18th century. Truth in labeling can help people of faith to oppose slave labor today ..read more
America Magazine » Religious Freedom
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Those Jesuits who remain, he said, now face the “fundamental concern” of expulsion or detention if relations between the Society of Jesus and the government of former Sandinista comandante President Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, grow any worse ..read more
America Magazine » Religious Freedom
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A Nicaraguan judge described the Jesuit university as a “center of terrorism,” accusing its administrators and educators of “betraying the trust of the Nicaraguan people” and of “transgressing against the constitutional order ..read more
America Magazine » Religious Freedom
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Nicaraguan officials ratcheted up a harassment campaign targeting Jesuits in Managua over the weekend ..read more
America Magazine » Religious Freedom
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Pope Francis has announced a commission to identify new martyrs, and in its latest report, Open Doors International has identified 76 countries where Christians suffer “high and extreme levels of persecution ..read more
America Magazine » Religious Freedom
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In two recent cases, the Supreme Court seemed to protect religious belief, but in saying that a website developer cannot be compelled to endorse same-sex marriage, it relied on free speech principles ..read more