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‘Without education Syrian children will be the next generation of IS’
Bearing samples of drawing and messages gathered from 1.2 million Muslim and Christian children from schools in Homs, Aleppo and Damascus, Syria, an appeal for peace was brought by representatives of the three main churches in Syria to policymakers at the highest levels of the EU and UN institutions. Organized by the Catholic charity Aid
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EU Slams Britain: ISIS Is Committing Genocide And You’re Doing Nothing
Boris Johnson is under fire from the EU’s special envoy on religious freedom over the failure to describe ISIS atrocities against Christians and Yazidis as “genocide”, Christian Today can reveal. In an interview in Brussels on Thursday Ján Figel, the European Union’s special envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion and belief, criticised the
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Pán Prezident, vďaka, zbohom a dovidenia!
Priznávam, Michala Kováča som za prezidenta volil bez hlbšieho odhodlania a presvedčenia. S istotou som v januári 1993 odovzdal svoj poslanecký hlas Dr. Antonovi Neuwirthovi, bývalému politickému väzňovi, skvelému lekárovi a kresťanskému demokratovi, ktorého kandidatúru za prezidenta pre prvú parlamentnú voľbu navrhlo KDH. Z prvého kola voľby však prezident nevzišiel. Vtedy sme si začali uvedomovať,
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International Protection of Religious Freedom
The Pew Research Center estimates that 77% of the world’s population lives in countries that experience a high or very high level of religious restrictions, and other studies reveal that such restrictions increase social violence and migration. Concerns about global religious freedom have prompted a variety of responses from Western democracies. For instance, the European
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Figeľ: Sýrske deti apelujú na Európu, aby sa mier stal realitou
Zaobchádzanie s menšinami je podľa Figeľa testom demokracie a menšiny v Sýrii by si zaslúžili viac práv a ochrany. Deti vďaka 3.000 kresbám žiadajú, aby sa znovu mohli vrátiť do školských lavíc. Brusel 11. októbra (TASR) – Aleppo zomiera a dnešné stretnutie s predstaviteľmi sýrskych kresťanov je prejavom úsilia o zmenu vývoja udalostí v Sýrii.
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Syrian religious leaders in Brussels: “We want to live in our land, we don’t want to leave”
Jan Figel, the EU Special Envoy for Religious Freedom and Belief outside the EU, met with Syrian religious leaders in Brussels, led by H.E. Patriarch Gregorios III Laham, Spiritual leader of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, H.E. Georges Abou Zakhem, Most Reverend Metropolitan of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Homs and H.E. Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh,
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Ján Figeľ’s speech at the 23rd Annual International Law and Religion Symposium at BYU
EUROPEAN UNION AND FoRB: A NEW MOMENTUM Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with a great pleasure to be here today. Our symposium is an excellent opportunity to discuss the changing nature of religious rights under international law, as well as recent political development on both sides of Atlantic with regard to the protection of
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EU und Freiheit der Religion oder Weltanschauung: Eine neue Momentum
Ján Figeľ: Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief outside the EU Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, verehrte Gäste, liebe Freunde, Es ist mir eine groβe Ehre und Freude hier Heute zu sprechen. Heute, in einer Zeit vielfacher Krisen besteht mehr als jemals zuvor in der Geschichte der EU die Gefahrt, dass
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EU und Freiheit der Religion oder Weltanschauung: Eine neue Momentum
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, verehrte Gäste, liebe Freunde, Es ist mir eine groβe Ehre und Freude hier Heute zu sprechen. Heute, in einer Zeit vielfacher Krisen besteht mehr als jemals zuvor in der Geschichte der EU die Gefahrt, dass Europa zerbricht an nationalen Egoismen, an Fragen der Migration, der Sicherheit, der Religion, der Werte.
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EU and Freedom of Religion or Belief: A new Momentum
Ladies and Gentlemen, In the midst of current multilayer crisis – we see compounded migration crisis, security crisis with crisis of our values, the dialogue is the space where we can find an answer. It requires not uniformity, but a unity that can harmonise even divergent views. We should recall that the roots of the