Religious Freedom – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:19:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Religious Freedom – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Le Bruit et l’Odeur: The Roots of the U.S.-France Divide Over Secularism https://onvenezuela.com/le-bruit-et-lodeur-the-roots-of-the-u-s-france-divide-over-secularism%ef%bf%bc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=le-bruit-et-lodeur-the-roots-of-the-u-s-france-divide-over-secularism%25ef%25bf%25bc Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:15:00 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=16699

In late August, just a week ahead of France’s famous rentrée—when the entire country marks “the return” from summer holiday and gets back to work and school—newly appointed Education Minister Gabriel Attal announced that students would be prohibited from wearing the abaya, a loose-fitting robe worn by some Muslim women as a form of modest clothing, in schools.Predictably, the decision set off another round of trans-Atlantic disputes over the meaning of freedom of religion and the best way to guarantee it, with Americans accusing the French state of infringing on the rights of its Muslim citizens and the French accusing Americans of not understanding the nature of French secularism, or laïcité. The belief that the two countries have radically different approaches to secularism and the separation of church and state is now widespread, deeply entrenched—and wrong. In fact, the source of this dispute emerged relatively recently, and it represented a significant and controversial shift in the emphasis of French laïcité: the so-called headscarf law of 2004. By Judah Grunstein. Full Text -> WPR

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Regimes target the faithful in Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela https://onvenezuela.com/regimes-target-the-faithful-in-cuba-nicaragua-venezuela/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=regimes-target-the-faithful-in-cuba-nicaragua-venezuela Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:52:26 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=5284

Dictators in the countries, or their proxies, have burned churches and harassed or teargassed worshipers, U.S. Agency for International Development Acting Administrator John Barsa told an August 20 discussion on religious freedom in the three countries. Full Text-> U.S.Embassyin Georgia

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