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Monitoring Violations of Religious Freedom ... The interesting thing about religious oppression is, it rarely arises from irreligion, but rather from one religion or religious sect persecuting the beliefs of those who differ from them.
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www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/Oppression/
www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/Oppression/
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China Intensifies Religious Persecution ... China's violation of religious freedom has intensified, a U.S. panel said Monday in a report. "The situation in China has grown worse in the past year," according to Elliott Abrams, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
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www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/Oppression/rochina....
www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/Oppression/rochina.html
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Today, in North America, we don't execute or sentence people for thought crimes. But some forms of religious oppression still exist. This continues is in spite of:
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www.religioustolerance.org/rel_host.htm
www.religioustolerance.org/rel_host.htm
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The Chinese government has relentlessly suppressed religious groups since achieving power in 1949. The rest of the world is most familiar with its oppression of non-registered Christian groups. However, the government has also persecuted many types of new religious and spiritual groups, including the Falun Gong.
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www.religioustolerance.org/rt_china.htm
www.religioustolerance.org/rt_china.htm
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Religious persecution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Religious persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs of affiliations. The tendency of societies or groups within soci...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_persecution
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I mentioned here the other day the new survey on religious oppression around the world done for the Pew Forum on Religion & Public LIfe. To read it all, click here. The findings are distressing, and it makes me wonder... ... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Growing religious oppression: 12-21-09...
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billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/12/122109.html
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If we are to condemn violations in Europe of the right to build religious structures, and we should, then we must raise ... When are people going to stop measuring their outrage based on whether they are a member of the oppressed group or not and begin to measure whether the oppression is right or wrong in the first place?
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newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/john_mark...
newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/john_mark_reynolds/2009/12/something_that_really_should_worry_europe.html
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Tehran, 19 Dec. (AKI) - A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or ... "Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die," said Hassani, ... "These women and their husbands and their fathers must die," said Hassani,
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www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=1.0.16870951...
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=1.0.1687095144
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China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are among 11 countries that practice religious oppression, a federal commission says. ... "At this point we believe that, while there are certainly still a number of issues in terms of religious freedom in Vietnam, that the actions that the Vietnamese government has taken to address some of...
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www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/02/religious.freedom/index.html
www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/02/religious.freedom/index.html
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