This innovative volume (Religion in Modern Education: Conflict, Economics, and Politics) explores the socio-political intersection of education with religion in modern society. The chapters of the book cover a range of case studies including Christian education, Jewish education, Islamic and Asian religious perspectives, as well as their interaction with a variety of ideological and political concerns.
Reports are emerging of an ongoing, massive campaign by Chinese police to crack down and arrest hundreds of Chinese house church members in Taishun County, Wenzhou City, in Zhejiang Province.
The latest crackdown on China’s house churches occurred between Dec. 13-18. Local witnesses reported via social media and other networks of multiple checkpoints, roving police patrols, and cash rewards being posted for the capture of house church leaders.
Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) reiterates its call for the Trump administration to include Egypt on the Special Watch List. Earlier this month, an Egyptian court sentenced a Christian man, Augustin Samaan, to five years’ imprisonment for ‘contempt of religion,’ based on Egypt’s blasphemy law.
FOB has been following the vicissitudes of MISA Yoga, Gregorian Bivolaru and the Stoian couple, and notes with regret that, despite the passing of the years, these vicissitudes have still not been resolved. The result is that some people have been imprisoned on charges that are as specious as they are defamatory, in line with the anti-cult ideology of the MIVILUDES and its acolytes.
On January 23, the Alliance for Democracy and Religious Freedom convened an emergency press conference outside Cheong Wa Dae, the presidential office in central Seoul, formally announcing its establishment. The coalition includes civic and religious organizations from across South Korea and approximately 100 participants, including Buddhist, Christian, and Muslim leaders, legal professionals, university professors, and civil society advocates.
HRWF — It will soon be three years since Strasbourg ruled that Belgium’s system of state recognition of religions and belief communities was incompatible with international standards. Brussels goes on turning a deaf ear and does not make any proposal.
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor — Five Iranian Christians have been sentenced to a combined 50 years in prison for religious activities, including prayer, baptism and distributing Bibles, according to watchdog organizations. All five, including two previously imprisoned men and three women, were convicted by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court under amended articles of Iran’s penal code, according to Article 18, a United Kingdom-based organization that monitors religious freedom in Iran.
