Tag: Religious freedom
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Campaigner: Religious freedom envoy must be permanent part of EU’s foreign policy team
Jan Figel, the EU’s special envoy for religious freedom, meets Patriarch Gregory III. [European Commission] The EU appointed its first special envoy on religious freedom in May 2016. Jan Figel’s 12-month mandate has now been extended for another year and Sophia Kuby of the Alliance for Defending Freedom (ADF) explains why his role should be…
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A Contribution in Commemoration of the Annual International Day of Religious Freedom-Century of Genocides: End or Continuity?
Brussels, 27.10.2016 (FOREF) – The annual International Day of Religious Freedom on October 27 is a reminder that freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) is neither a self-evident reality, nor a broadly winning international trend. Quite the opposite is the case, since the actual tendency is negative. This essential, universal human value is currently seriously restricted or…
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Figel’: “Action for Religious Freedom is a Moral Obligation”
Interview by FOREF Europe with Dr. Ján Figeľ, EU Special Envoy for the promotion of FoRB Vienna, 03.08.2016 (FOREF Europe) – During his short stay in Vienna, Ján Figeľ, the first Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief outside the European Union, met with Peter Zoehrer, the executive director of FOREF…
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Figel’: “Action for Religious Freedom is a Moral Obligation”
August 3, 2016 Interview by FOREF Europe with Dr. Ján Figeľ, EU Special Envoy for the promotion of FoRB Vienna, 03.08.2016 (FOREF Europe) – During his short stay in Vienna, Ján Figeľ, the first Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief outside the European Union, met with Peter Zoehrer, the executive…
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Servizio Informazione Religiosa: Jàn Figel, flag bearer of religious freedom in the world. “We seek answers in dialogue and we find them”
The president of the Juncker Commission entrusts the Slovakian politician with the promotion and safeguarding of believers beyond the frontiers of the European Community. Respect for religions, he states, is the “primary condition for a more humane world in the XXIst century “The freedom of religion and belief is a fundamental right at the base…