Israel’s government on Sunday cancelled a landmark deal to create a space for women and men to pray together at the Western Wall, angering activists who have fought for the change for years. Women and men currently must pray separately at Jerusalem’s Western Wall under strict interpretation of Jewish law. The deal to alter rules … Read more
A pastor has risen up against the annual ban on drumming and noisemaking by the Ga Traditional Council, describing it as “lawlessness” and a breach of Christians’ freedom to worship. According to Reverend Samuel Korankye-Gary who is the General Overseer of the Glory Temple Charismatic Ministry, the observerance of the ban by Christians would mean … Read more
Moroccans who secretly converted to Christianity are demanding the right to practise their faith openly in a country where Islam is the state religion and “apostasy” is condemned. At an apartment in a working-class part of the southern town of Agadir, Mustapha listened to hymns emanating from a hi-fi under a silver crucifix hung on … Read more
In a remote corner of the Indonesian archipelago, a modest synagogue stands in a tiny Jewish community that has found acceptance despite rising intolerance in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country. The red-roofed building on Sulawesi island is the only synagogue in the nation of 255 million people. Here, unlike other parts of the country, … Read more
In a remote corner of the Indonesian archipelago, a modest synagogue stands in a tiny Jewish community that has found acceptance despite rising intolerance in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country. The red-roofed building on Sulawesi island is the only synagogue in the nation of 255 million people. Here, unlike other parts of the country, … Read more
A constitutional lawyer, Nana Dr S. K.B. Asante, has stated that freedom of religion is a prerequisite to religious tolerance. He emphasised that freedom of religion and religious tolerance were core values not only in constitutional democracies but in pluralistic societies which are undergoing the process of integration and national cohesion. He, therefore, warned that … Read more