August 22 is International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief (#UNIDVRBV). It was established in 2019 by a United Nations General Assembly resolution in response to the growing number of cases of persecution and discrimination based on faith. Join the celebration! August 22 at 9 PM Throughout Poland, […]
London, UK – A woman who lost her job because of her views on the biological determinants of sex wins the appeal in the Employment Tribunal Maya Forstater, dismissed from her job as a tax advisor in 2019, on June 10 has won her appeal in Employment Appeal Tribunal.. The reason for the dismissal was […]
France - attack on the procession honoring the martyrs of the Paris Commune On May 26, 2021, a procession was held in Paris to commemorate fifty prisoners of the Paris Commune, including ten priests, murdered on May 26, 1871 on Rue Haxo. The procession, organized on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of this event, […]
Mjanma – four people killed in an attack on the Catholic church May 24, 2021, on the Monday after Pentecost, the Church of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Kayanthayar near Lwaingkaw, the capital of the state of Kaja, was shot at with artillery projectils. Four people died and the temple building was badly damaged. China […]
Religious freedom in adult education was the topic of the fourth, last edition of our on-line debates on religious freedom in education. During the meeting, we considered: the processes of desecularization and individualization of religion and the models of education open to the pluralism of values and religion the meaning of religious freedom and the […]
On April 21, 2021, a US federal judge temporarily suspended an order for a sailor to shave his beard, who believes it violates his religious rights. . Edmund Di Liscia, a Hasidic Jew aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, was counseled Thursday and ordered to shave his beard within 24 hours. Di Liscia previously obtained […]
In the third installment of our regular meetings on religious freedom in education, we will talk, inter alia, about: the place of religious freedom in the academic space and its relation to freedom of speech, ways of expressing religious beliefs by contemporary students and manifestations of religious discrimination, as well as challenges that Polish universities […]
Which is the appropriate way to speak to a teenager about religious freedom and how should their individual religious choices be protected? Is it a good idea to replace teaching religion at school with ethics? How should interreligious conflicts at school and in the family be resolved and build relationships based on dialogue? Does the […]
Religious freedom of children – What does the law say about religious freedom? Who makes the decisions on this matter? State or parent, teacher or peers? Each individually or all together? In the complicated puzzle of our society – Which is the proper way to raise and educate a happy and empathetic child who loves […]
The active Internet map of violations of religious freedom takes on colors. The first pins, indicating the recorded cases of violations, have appeared on it. The colors assigned to the pins are not random – they refer to one of the four categories into which the recorded acts have been divided. These are: physical attacks […]
