Many Countries Favor Specific Religions, Officially or Unofficially
Islam is the most common state religion, but many governments give privileges to Christianity.
Islam is the most common state religion, but many governments give privileges to Christianity.
Pew Research Center Ten years ago, the U.S. Congress launched a debate on U.S. international religious freedom policy that ultimately resulted in the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. Foreign policy actors continue to debate how religious freedom – and religion itself – should be factored into U.S. foreign policy. Has the State Department interpreted […]
Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2007 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Ray Takeyh, a leading expert on Iran and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, shed light on the complex and diffuse […]
10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Washington, D.C. Presenters: Fr. Bryan Hehir, President, Catholic Charities, USA; Distinguished Professor of Ethics and International Affairs, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Michael Walzer, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.; Author, Just and Unjust Wars and Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality Respondents: Charles Krauthammer, Columnist, Washington […]
10 a.m.-Noon Rescheduled from February 18 Washington, D.C. Featured Speakers: Stanley Carlson-Thies, Fellow, Center for Public Justice; former White House Associate Director for Cabinet Affairs Barry Lynn, Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State Respondents: Anne Farris, Washington Correspondent, the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy Fredrica D. Kramer, Senior Consultant […]
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