Are you an academic, religious leader, public official, lawyer or journalist with an interest in religious freedom? If so, you’re invited to submit lecture topic proposals for a regional religious liberty conference to be held later this year.
At a national gathering of media professionals, Dr. Ganoune Diop along with his fellow presenter Lord George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, explored the potential international forums for advancing human rights.
A high-ranking African Union official has challenged the international community to step up its efforts to track and respond to religious intolerance and sectarian violence. The remarks came at a formal dinner sponsored by the International Religious Liberty Association and the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Keynote speaker Erastas Mwencha said that promoting religious freedom is both a personal responsibility and a political imperative.
Commentary by Dwayne Leslie, Deputy Secretary General, International Religious Liberty Association. "Simply put, we are better together. It’s a big world. With far too many areas of oppression, religiously motivated acts of terror and other issues. Where it’s all too easy for governments to ignore one or two or three groups acting independently."
The American Jewish Committee has released a new video appeal on behalf of Sajjad Masih Gill, a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who is serving a life sentence under Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws.