Religious Liberty

“Major news outlets are reporting that a secretive court in China has sentenced detained Christian pastor Wang Yi to 9 years in prison for inciting subversion of the government. Yi is one of the country’s most famous Christian leaders who founded and leads a large, well-known house church in the country.” - RNS

ERLC’s Russell Moore: “Faith-based organizations ought to be able to hire those whose views are consistent with the organization’s beliefs, especially when those employees are responsible for teaching religious doctrine.” - BPNews

“The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom received funding of $3.5 million annually for the next three years after members of Congress included revised legislation about it in the 1,700-plus-page bill that they approved this week.” - RNS

“You have a mix of members in your church. Some are expats, or foreign nationals, who work in Hong Kong, but most are Hong Kong natives. In fact, many in your church are first generation Christians. As the protests begin to grow, many people are coming to you for spiritual advice. …Some ask, is it against God’s will if they join the protesters?” - SBC Voices

“Chris Stewart, a Republican congressman from Utah, introduced the Fairness for All Act (FFA), legislation that attempts to find a balance between religious liberty and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) laws.

“The percentage of Christians in Turkey declined from nearly 25% in 1914 to less than 0.5% today.” - The Conversation

“A widely-held paradigm in Western intellectual history is that religious freedom originated with enlightened intellectuals during the seventeenth century. … Robert Louis Wilken’s latest book, Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom, challenges this dominant narrative.” - CBMW

“Goodrich explains that there is solid theological and civic reasoning behind our American concept of religious liberty and that it’s worth correctly understanding and defending it.” - TGC

The UK Government “has told the United Nations that freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) “continues to be a priority for the United Kingdom.’” - Christian Today

“Around 60 incidents of hate crimes against Sikhs were reported to the FBI in 2018, making the community the third most commonly targeted religious group after Jews and Muslims in the US, according to an annual report released by the bureau.” - PTI