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Human rights leaders call for Nigeria to be redesignated as religious freedom violator

December 14, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

A map of Nigeria. / Credit: Shutterstock

CNA Staff, Dec 14, 2023 / 13:17 pm (CNA).
More than two dozen human rights advocates are urging Congress to call on the State Department to put Nigeria back on a list of the world’s worst violators of re… […]

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Republican and Democrat leaders urge Biden to add Nigeria to list of countries violating religious freedom

February 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Altar of St. Francis Xavier Owo Catholic Parish of Ondo Diocese, Nigeria, where dozens were slain in a massacre on June 5, 2022. / Courtesy of ACN

Washington D.C., Feb 1, 2023 / 08:29 am (CNA).
New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith and a group of Republi… […]

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Ortega seeking to ‘destroy the Catholic Church in Nicaragua,’ advocates tell Congress 

December 15, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, is monitored by police in early August 2022. / Photo credit: Diocese of Matagalpa

St. Louis, Mo., Dec 15, 2022 / 15:45 pm (CNA).
In testimony to a U.S. congressional human rights commission, two p… […]

The Dispatch

Which U.S. states rank first (and last) in religious freedom protections?

September 23, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 23, 2022 / 07:00 am (CNA).
A nonprofit legal organization specializing in religious liberty cases has conducted a study comparing U.S. states on the basis of how free its residents are to pract… […]

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India’s Christians see dangers in Karnataka survey, anti-conversion push

October 29, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral, mother church of the Archdiocese of Bangalore. / Saad Faruque via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Bangalore, India, Oct 29, 2021 / 15:55 pm (CNA).
A Catholic archbishop in India’s Karnataka state has again called on the… […]

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Texas death row inmate sues to have pastor’s touch in execution chamber

August 13, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

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Washington D.C., Aug 13, 2021 / 14:21 pm (CNA).
A man scheduled to be executed in early September is suing the Texas Department of Criminal … […]

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German Social Democrats attack Catholic faith of potential Angela Merkel successor’s aide

August 11, 2021 Catholic News Agency 4

Armin Laschet, now the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, speaks at the party headquarters in Berlin, Jan. 11, 2017. Credit: photocosmos1/Shutterstock.

Berlin, Germany, Aug 11, 2021 / 10:42 am (CNA).
An anti-Catholic video targeting the e… […]

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Federal LGBT employment guidance ‘an outrageous overreach’ one lawyer says

July 8, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

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Washington D.C., Jul 8, 2021 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
Recent federal LGBT nondiscrimination guidance for employers goes far beyond the law, one legal and religious freedom expert told CNA. “This is an outrageous overrea… […]

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Two Christians accused of breaking Pakistan’s blasphemy law

February 16, 2021 CNA Daily News 0

Lahore, Pakistan, Feb 16, 2021 / 11:40 am (CNA).- Two Christian evangelists could face the death penalty after being charged with violating Pakistan’s blasphemy law after an encounter in a park in Lahore prompted a complaint that they made deroga… […]

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