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Two quite different religious communities: The Church Universal Soul and Damanhur
The CESNUR conference ended with a field trip to two religious communities in the area. The first was the Church Universal Soul, a monastic Christian community with an understanding of reincarnation. See https://www.cesnur.org/conferences/riga2000/plz.htm for some limited information about the community. The second visit was to Damanhur, a Federation of spiritual communities, with its own Constitution,…
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Working group on freedom of religion or belief launched
As a member of the UK Freedom of Religion or Belief Forum (UK FF), AFN launched a Working Group on freedom of religion or belief in Europe on 24th February 2023. Fortuitously, this was a special meeting held at No. 10 Downing Street and some 50 members of the Forum attended (with many more via…
Conference proceedings – video
Last month the All Faiths Network hosted an interfaith forum concerning governmental and institutional responses to religious extremism. The debate explored critical issues, including suggestions that Government subsidies to interfaith bodies are failing to improve relations between faith communities. It was suggested that some bodies had been hijacked by unrepresentative cliques with links to extremist factions. The meeting also emphasised the…
USCIRF Concerns in the European Union
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom published 2023 report on Religious Freedom Concerns in the European Union. It states that “The EU and many of its member states are active in the promotion of religious freedom abroad, yet some EU countries have nonetheless maintained or implemented laws and policies that restrict the rights…
