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Vietnam’s Catholic bishops say new religion law means religion ‘not considered a human right’
World Watch Monitor Senior Catholics in Vietnam have issued a statement to high-ranking communist officials criticising the country’s new religion law, due to come into effect in January 2018, reports UCANews. The Law on Belief and Religion – the first ever law on religions since Vietnam was re-unified under communist rule in 1975 – “continues to […]
Attacks against Australian tennis great Margaret Court are “hypocritical”, says ACL chief
Attacks on former Australian tennis champion and pastor Margaret Court over her stance against same-sex marriage are “hypocritical”, according to Lyle Shelton, managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby. Google Maps have sparked controversy by reportedly renaming Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena the Evonne Goolagong Arena on some maps. The moves came after calls for the stadium […]
GENDER: GATHERING OF EXPERTS EXPLORES QUESTIONS OF CULTURE, RELIGION AND THE POSITION OF WOMEN
World Watch Monitor reports from an international conference exploring the role of culture and religion in discrimination against women…