The federal judges ruled that the City of Munich cannot ask citizens to declare that they are not Scientologists to ...

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‘In Prison for Their Faith 2020’, a new report mapping prisoners worldwide from 13 religious groups Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, ...

All Faiths Network is supporting the drive to request that the United Nations recognises September 30th as World Moral Education ...

15 November 6pm – 9pm 35-37 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 6DX We invite you to join us for a celebration ...

The issue of censorship is sometimes a difficult one. Spreading the line between freedom of speech and incitement to violence ...

We present a reader’s contribution from Mr. A. Brown of Sussex. We welcome your thoughts or comments or new perspectives ...

The Jalsa Salana is the biggest gathering of Muslims in the UK with about 35,000 people attending over a three-day ...

Jon Dal Din, Director of Westminster Interfaith, organised the 24th Annual Walk, on 8 June 1019, between different places of ...

AFN attended two different Iftah events in May. Iftah notes the breaking of the fast in the evening during Ramadan ...

Exploring Belief, the second Religion Media Festival, featured a stellar line-up of speakers and included panel discussions on some of ...

AFN members attended an evening to celebrate International Dance Day where, for the first time in the UK, these traditional ...

On the occasion of the Bishop of Chichester, the Right Reverend Dr. Martin Warner, visiting the Crawley area, an interfaith ...

Everyone has thought at some time or other, “Where do I come from?”, “What is infinity?”, “Is there a God?” ...

Whilst on the opposite side of the world the Christchurch murders of 49 members of Islam in their place of ...

A new study from the well-regarded Pew Research Centre finds that people who are active in religious congregations tend to ...

The Assembly today expressed concern about the fact that “Sharia law, including provisions which are in clear contradiction with the ...

Elizabeth Oldfield is Director of Theos and regularly features in the media, including BBC One, Sky News, and the World ...

Here we present a quotation from the conclusion of an article by Dr. David Baer printed in the Hungarian Spectrum about ...

We highly recommend this TED talk by writer and Middle East reporter Lesley Hazleton. Lesley says she sat down one ...

The Word of Life Ministries International held its annual awards ceremony on 7th December awarding Ambassadorships to 6 people who ...

AFN members attended a conference at the United Nations in Geneva to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration ...

After attending a number of interfaith events during the week the All Faiths Network launched its own event on the ...

Freedom of Belief, a Federation of Associations that advocate freedom of thought, religion and belief, asks for your support on ...

Human Rights and Religion 26thJuly 2018 The speakers at this event presented perspectives and referenced religious texts from their own ...

The Solvay Library in Brussels welcomed, on the 28th of June 2018, the Faith and Freedom Summit. The Faith and ...

On the 28th of June at Brussels the Faith and Freedom Summit conference, was organised by the third largest party ...

The UK Interfaith Network (IFN), of which AFN is a national member body, held its annual general meeting in Derby ...

AFN recently contributed to two different events.  Religion – a Source of Peace and Harmony in SocietyOne was organised by ...

The All Faiths Network Director participated and spoke at an international convention held in Florence, Italy entitled “Law and Freedom ...

Russia Religion News reports that the European Court of Human Rights (E.C.H.R.) has posed questions to Russia over the treatment of ...

Invitation A conference/debate organised by The European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom (EIFRF), and the All Faiths Network Speakers: Jan ...

Eno Adeogun on the Christian news website Premier echoes the call for a challenge to the Russian repression of Jehova’s ...

Council of Europe cross-party initiative: Parliamentarians from 14 European countries call upon Russian government to put an end to religious ...

Reported by the BBC and others, Russia’s Supreme Court has ordered the disbanding of the Jehovah’s Witnesses on Russian territory ...

The All Faiths Network finds the recent European Court of Justice decision allowing companies to prohibit workers from the “visible ...

Interfax, the Russian News agency, reports that Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev guarantees freedom of religion, but says ‘religious extremism should ...

Writing in the Guardian last month, Miqdaad Versi highlighted both the dangerous linking of terrorism with relgion, chiefly Islam, in the ...

It is often noted that, different though religions are in the specifics of faith and practice,  there are more shared principles ...

A YouGov poll on attitudes to the causes of Islamic and Christian terrorism shows a significant differences of views between ...

On 5th December 2016, 16 fully armed policemen and 12 plain clothed officers in three police vehicles forcefully entered the ...

Large gaps in education levels persist, but all faiths are making gains – particularly among women, according to a new ...

Reports in the Guardian and elsewhere have highlighted concerns over holocaust denial websites that have succeeded in manipulating search results ...

The Russian News Agency TASS reports that the vice-chair of the Federation Council’s Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, ...

Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia has reported that law enforcement agencies in Petrovpavlovsk-Kamchatsky broke out a window in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the so-called “Yarovaya package” of laws which substantially toughen criminal accountability for a number ...

Human Rights Without Frontiers has issued it’s 2015 report on minorities under oppression. The report covers 15 religious or belief ...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an advisory council to Congress and the US President, has added Central African Republic, Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria ...

Reuters reports that a Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Beijing has decided to ditch traditional ways and use technology to ...

Should there be limits to freedom of speech? Does freedom of speech include the freedom to express hatred? Should lines ...

The majority of people promoting “jihad” online are using political rather than religious arguments, according to a study by two ...

Forum18 reports that in latest cases in Russia against Sunni Muslims who read the works of the late Turkish theologian ...

“Religious minority communities, particularly Muslim Crimean Tatars, suffer because of Russia’s application of its more restrictive criminal and administrative codes, ...

Describing it as a colonial-era law, Indian website Lapidomedia reports that a warrant for the arrest of national cricket captain Mahindra ...

Research published by the Pew Research Centre suggests women are more likely to attend religious services in Christian countries, but men ...

A court in Brussels has thrown out charges that could have seen Church of Scientology banned as a “criminal enterprise” ...

An international seminar on the life and ways of Prophet Mohammed condemned terrorism and declared that Islam has no room ...

Pakistani Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi and other speakers at an event held at the United Nations voiced serious concern over the ...

World Report 2016 is Human Rights Watch’s 26th annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarizes key ...

The 2016 “Annual Dialogue Report”, prepared by Media Tenor and just released, examines ways to build trust and increase dialogue across religious ...

The Guardian reports that French Education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem says pupils should be taught that the separation of church and state is ...

TUESDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2016 AT 6.00 ARRIVAL FOR 6.30PM PROMPT START UNTIL 8.30PM IN PARLIAMENT (ROOM TO BE CONFIRMED) The ...

After Kenyan authorities reported that Al-Shabaab terrorists attacked a bus near the northeastern village of El Wak, attempting to separate ...

The Muslim Council of Britain took out an advert in the national press to underscore the united condemnation Muslims have ...

The Sakhalin Regional Court has granted an appeal  by Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov, revoking a lower court’s ruling that ...

Dutch politician Geert Wilders has appeared in Australia to help launch an anti-Islam political party based on Wilders’s right-wing Party for ...

A Motion resolving to “study and identify cases where member States do not respect the rights of parents to educate ...

The US State Department has released its International Religious Freedom Report for 2014. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein explained the ...

The World Council of Churches (WCC) expresses grave concern over escalation of the conflict in Syria in an official statement ...

Myanmar’s recently adopted Race and Religion laws are attracting the attention of Amnesty International, the UN human rights experts and faith ...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has condemned violations of religious freedom and human rights taking place in ...

Religious affiliation in Russia has increased considerably over the last two decades, according to a series of surveys by the ...

Interfax reports concerns expressed by the Adil Soz Foundation (International Foundation for the Protection of Freedom of Speech) over Government propaganda about religious extremism ...

Gillingham MP Rehman Chishti is campaigning for the UK to refer to the so called “Islamic State” (also referred to as ...

“If ‘Satanic Islam’ pastor James McConnell goes to jail I will go with him, insists Muslim cleric” is the headline ...

The European Parliament Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Religious Tolerance (Intergroup) has presented its first Annual Report ...

A book by investigative journalist Lars Bové of De Tijd newspaper claims that extensive surveillance by the Belgian State Security services on ...

For the 30th year the Westminster Interfaith Multi-Faith Pilgrimage for Peace with the Hounslow Friends of Faith in the Hounslow ...

Canadian governments and churches pursued a policy of “cultural genocide” against the country’s aboriginal people throughout the 20th century, according ...

A group of 15 non-governmental organizations and personalities from around the world have written a joint letter to the US Secretary of ...

Muslims in Bihar, in a display of communal fellowship, have donated land to help the fundraising efforts for the massive ...

Russia Religion News reports that, after months of preparatory work and a long history of repression, the Chief Directorate of ...

The Russian Ministry of Justice is planning to obtain approval on a proposal that will allow them greater control over ...

Prime Minister David Cameron will include new counter-terrorism measures aimed at tackling radical extremism in the forthcoming Queen’s Speech. A ...

The Vatican says freedom of expression does not include the right to offend religious sentiments. Commenting in its newspaper L’Osservatore ...

As the new Conservative government takes shape, there will be interest in the Party’s plans to tackle the fomenting of extremism ...

A press statement on The Church of England official website welcomes the recent Court of Appeals judgement as “upholding the freedom ...

According to a study published in the journal “Demographic Research”, social scientists’ prediction that religion will become a part of ...

A new survey from WIN/Gallup finds that 63{286427c60984e496d8f2e542e7d21c54ddb5734529e6fb3e21d1c17283afa115} of people say they are religious, with Australia and Europe amongst the lowest figures. China ...

A Bill introducing changes into the federal law ‘On freedom of conscience and religious associations’ has been adopted by the Russian ...

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, has issued a statement explaining the position (and inaction) of the ...

A new paper published in Demographic Research suggests that the religiously unaffiliated are projected to decline as a share of ...

An Anglican Communion delegation has demanded the full inclusion of women at all levels of decision-making and leadership in the ...

A total of 65 individuals and religious communities are known to have been prosecuted in 2014 across Russia for possession ...

Last month the All Faiths Network hosted an interfaith forum concerning governmental and institutional responses to religious extremism. The debate explored critical issues, ...

U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Chair Katrina Lantos Swett and Commissioner Mary Ann Glendon visited Islamabad on March ...

Home Secretary Teresa May has announced new measures to be taken by the Extremism Analysis Unit to combat extremism. In ...

We present a video review of the recent All Faiths Network forum, held at Church House, Westminster. A full video ...

We were pleased to host an interfaith forum (17 March) on important issues of governmental and institutional responses to religious extremism ...

Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a complete ban on teachers wearing headscarves is not compatible with religious freedom. This ...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief has called for changes in Kazakhstan laws to bring them into line ...

The International Coalition for Religious Freedom reports that the UN Human Rights Committee has “formally reminded” Japan of its responsibility to ...

“Who is My Neighbour?”  A Multifaith Response to Critical Issues for the General Election Tuesday 17 March 2015 at 1.30 ...

A Birmingham research centre study suggests that students professing a faith have a better moral code than those who are ...

British Sikhs have launched a first-ever campaign manifesto targeting 50 seats, including three in west London, ahead of the election ...

Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) are calling for proposed new ‘race and religion’ laws in Myanmar ...

A new study published by the Pew Research Society finds that 27{286427c60984e496d8f2e542e7d21c54ddb5734529e6fb3e21d1c17283afa115} of countries had ‘high’ or ‘very high’ levels of social ...

A new analysis by Brian J. Grim of the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation finds that violent incidents between religious groups are ...

The Austrian parliament has passed a Bill requiring a standardised German translation of the Qur’an, and banning both foreign imams and ...

A Comres survey for the BBC of 1000 British Muslims published today finds that more than two in five (46{286427c60984e496d8f2e542e7d21c54ddb5734529e6fb3e21d1c17283afa115}) ...

David Saperstein, formerly director of the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism, has been appointed US ambassador-at-large for religious freedom. Saperstein ...

The European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom (EIFRF)  invites all our readers to a roundtable in Brussels on March 13. The ...

Attacks last summer in Denmark triggered calls from Israel’s Prime Minister for Jews to move to Israel, provoking protest from ...

The European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) has refused to review an appeal filed by the Russian Federation over a decision ...

PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF VENUE: Please note that there is a change of venue from the Parliament to close by ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on Tuesday about recent religious attacks and conversion attempts in the country, affirming his ...

I am pleased to inform you that the annual Peace Conference organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Assoc. is being held ...

radical: characterized by departure from tradition, innovative or progressive (Oxford Dictionary of English) [More from the House of Lords November ...

Russia Religion News reports that for the first time in the years of Ukrainian independence, pastors of the Christians of ...

An expanded legal guide to issues surrounding registration and recognition of religious and belief organisations and communities has been published by ...

On Thursday 27TH November 2014, Members of the Lords debated the role of religion and belief in British public life. The ...

SOURCE: Channelnewsasia: SINGAPORE: A Falun Gong supporter was sentenced to two months’ jail and six strokes of the cane on ...

Source: The Independent: The number of antisemitic incidents reported in the UK reached a record high last year as people ...

SOURCE: Online Athens: American Muslims often get the kind of treatment once reserved for blacks and Jews, dehumanized groups that ...

SOURCE: Jehovas Witnesses website, JANUARY 23, 2015:  Russian Federation Supreme Court Decision Sets Dangerous Precedent for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia ...

SOURCE: European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom & All Faiths Network. 10 Apr. 2014 – STRASBOURG. The recommendations of French ...

Top ECtHR expert (former Jurisconsult of the ECtHR) gives opinion on Rudy Salle’s report at Council of Europe Vincent Berger ...

The attached letter is from The Guild of Experts on Religion and Law regarding the Council of Europe report. Letter from ...

Source: Nederlands Dagblad (Netherlands Daily) 1 April 2014: Further reporting on the concerns about the Council of Europe report: http://www.nd.nl/artikelen/2014/april/01/protest-tegen-europees-anti-sektenplan-zwelt-aan Translation: [ezcol_1half] ...

Criticism: The Council of Europe is Letting the Freedom of Religion Down original article: http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/550619:Kirke—tro–Kritik-af-Europaraadet-for-at-svigte-religionsfrihed?rss [ezcol_1half] Translation: 29 March 2014 Birthe ...

Here attached is an open letter signed by a total of 64 concerned organisations and groups, sent on 31st March ...

The Legal Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe report entitled “The protection of minors against the excesses of sects” is due ...

Here is a round-up of comments and opinions on the Council of Europe Report. There has been a wave of ...

The All Faiths Network would like to draw your attention to a draft report that has just been adopted by ...

Summary Key points of concern with regards to the Council of Europe draft report on “The protection of minors against the ...

The All Faiths Network for the United Kingdom is registered charity 1145611, and is a network which reaches into some ...