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‘Administration must rewrite the mandate to ensure religious institutions have a right to practice what they preach’

More than 100 Catholic lay leaders will gather in Miami to discuss key issues of faith, family and politics in preparation for presidential election.

The Sarasota Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally begins at 12 noon at the Sarasota Bayfront, at the corner of Bayfront Dr and Gulfstream Ave, joining over 150 other cities and towns from Maine to Hawaii that are participating in this national event.

Official crackdown on Lao churches in Savannakhet province that had started almost eight months ago in Dongpaiwan village in Saybuli district on September 14, 2011 is now spreading to Phin district of Savannakhet. Closure of churches is likely.

Lao churches in Savannakhet are still being denied access to their churches, with three of the churches challenging the legitimacy of orders of the Lao officials and continuing to assemble exercise their constitutional guaranteed religious freedom.

Lao district officials in savannakhet province of laos closed down the 4th lao church, citing that christians did not have permission to build the church building and that throughout saybuli district, only dongpoong village church is recognized.

Petition will be delivered to the White House and DOJ on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 in conjunction with a Rally for Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Worship, and Freedom of Conscience at Freedom Plaza from 2:00PM until 3:00PM. RSVP via Facebook!

Billy Rojas & the Centroids community today issued the Ground Zero Declaration, a detailed set of principles that support religious freedom but oppose construction of the Cordoba Islamic center near the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan

A new ruling by a federal judge could dissuade any officials in New York City thinking of trying to stop or even delay the construction of a mosque near ground zero, says public interest law professor John Banzhaf.

This doesn't have to be a fight for the right to exercise religious freedom. Let us, rather, stand united for that which is simply; right.

The Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) in partnership with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) will hold a two day demonstration on May 7 and May 8 in Geneva to draw attention to human rights abuses taking place in Vietnam.