Essay: India must turn from its current path of intolerance and impunity
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, says the Indian Government – and international community – need to ensure families are free to live in the villages they call home “without fear of coercion, harassment or violence on account of their religious beliefs”…
India: How anti-conversion laws are fine-tuned to allow policing of Christians
While they purport to protect poor Hindus from being exploited, anti-conversion laws have been found to have a more demonstrable effect of generating violence against Christians. MOHAMMAD ALI reports for Religion News Service…
Ongoing impacts: Discrimination still haunts Japan’s Nobel-winning atomic bomb survivors
DANIEL LEUSSINK, of Reuters, reports…
Essay: The Mexican authorities could have prevented the forced displacement of over 100 Christians years ago, but they didn’t
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, calls for action and prayer over the plight of more than 100 members of a Protestant church made homeless because of their faith…
Essay: Remembering Christians in Indigenous communities this Christmas
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, urges Christians to remember – and pray for – Indigenous communities around the world this Christmas…
Postcards: US renters fall foul of algorithms in search for a home
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how automated screening programs are under scrutiny amid broader concerns about the potential of algorithms to lock in bias and perpetuate inequality…
USDA exempts religious schools from non-discrimination rules to keep kids fed
Washington DC, US RNS The US Department of Agriculture has clarified its guidance for participants in a free school lunch program, stating that faith-based schools can seek religious exemptions to federal restrictions that include barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The clarification, delivered via a USDA memo dated 12th August, […]
US Christians, Jews and Muslims encounter workplace discrimination differently – study
RNS Christians, Jews and Muslims encounter workplace discrimination, but they experience it differently, according to a new report by Rice University’s Religion and Public Life Program. While Muslims and Jews say they’ve felt targeted by anti-Islamic and anti-Semitic rhetoric, it’s most often in the context of being seen as part of a larger group, they […]
Health care provider pays $US75,000 in ‘scrub skirt’ religious bias suit
RNS A Tennessee-based health care provider will pay $US75,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit involving an Apostolic Pentecostal nurse who wanted to wear a “scrub skirt” to work. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said the company denied the nurse’s right to religious accommodation. Wellpath LLC hired Christian nurse Malinda Babineaux in 2019 to […]
DRC: Ebola survivors unite to combat stigma and misinformation
The Democratic Republic of Congo declared an end to the latest outbreak of Ebola in the African nation last week. KAHINDO SIFA BAHATI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how survivors of a previous outbreak are challenging the stigma associated with the deadly disease…