University of Iowa will pay nearly $2 million to settle discrimination lawsuits with two Christian student groups that have been de-registered because of their faith-based practices. The Iowa State Appeal Board on Monday unanimously approved a court-ordered settlement paid to Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm that represented both student groups…
University of Iowa Pays $2 Million to Settle Discrimination Lawsuits With Christian Student Groups
University of Iowa to Pay $2 Million to Settle Discrimination Lawsuits With Christian Student Groups
The University of Iowa will pay nearly $2 million to settle discrimination lawsuits with two Christian student groups that have been deregistered because of their faith-based practices. The Iowa State Appeal Board on Dec. 6 unanimously approved a court-ordered settlement to Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a Washington-based law firm that represented both student groups…
‘This Is Childish’: Australian Senator on Beijing’s Put-Down of Olympic Boycotts
December 9, 2021
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An Australian senator is pushing back on Beijing’s claim that it allegedly does not care whether foreign representatives attend its upcoming Winter Olympic Games while denying concerns about its human rights records. Countries including the United States, Australia, Canada, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom are to stage a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics,…
Nativity Scenes on Display at 40 State Capitols This Christmas Season
After a year of court battles over government-ordered church closures and ignored religious objections to COVID-19 vaccines, two Illinois groups say they have the perfect societal antidote—Nativity crèches celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ displayed inside 40 state capitol buildings from New Hampshire to Hawaii. It is the ninth year of a partnership between the…
Newly Published Documents Show Uyghur Atrocities Ordered by Top CCP Leaders
News Analysis A new analysis of secret documents leaked from inside China directly implicates Chinese leader Xi Jinping in ordering and organizing the repression campaign targeting China’s Ughyur ethnic minority. “The Xinjiang Papers, Explained”, published on Nov. 27, is an expanded look at the original “Xinjiang Papers”, a set of classified Chinese documents leaked to…
Chinese State Media Orders US Workers to Maintain ‘Political Purity,’ Not Practice Falun Gong: Internal Document
December 2, 2021
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The international arm of the Chinese regime’s state broadcaster ordered some of its contracted American workers to distance themselves from persecuted faith group Falun Gong, an internal document supplied to The Epoch Times shows. The Washington bureau of CGTN, a state-run English language television network, earlier this year instructed several contract workers to pledge to…
Vocal Minority Should Not Spell the End of Enshrining Religious Freedom: Expert
December 1, 2021
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Religious freedom is worth protecting even when there is a “loud segment of society” who are against any protections for people of faith, said an expert on religion. Denise Dragovic, a scholar in the field of religion and society and a fellow at the University of Melbourne, told The Epoch Times that if the yardstick…
Religious Believers in Australia Get Protections, Not Freedom
Commentary Time appeared to be running out for the Australian government to deliver on its 2019 election pledge to legislate protections for religious believers and faith-based organisations. But in late November, Attorney-General Michaelia Cash finally briefed the Coalition party room as she prepared to put the exposure draft of her Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 before…
Secret File: CCP Prevents Lawyers From Defending Falun Gong Practitioners
November 22, 2021
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An unpublished official document from a Chinese High Court shows that the Chinese regime ordered judges to prevent lawyers from defending Falun Gong adherents. Not daring to show defendants, their relatives, or the lawyers this unpublished document, a Chinese judge Wang Rongfu yelled at a Falun Gong practitioner’s family member in April: “Don’t argue with…
Banished for Their Belief: A Daring Appeal in the Heart of Red China
November 20, 2021
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Carrying a large backpack, and clutching a travel guide in one hand, Canadian Joel Chipkar looked the part of a typical tourist. The brown-haired 33-year-old real estate broker, wearing a black jacket and khaki pants, walked briskly to Tiananmen Square, the heart of China’s capital that just over a decade ago had been reddened by…
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