Feb-March 201285 comments I’m thinking of a way to bring the religious leaders of every religion, cult, sect or any other religious beliefs representatives together  

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  British IARF AGM 2012 (PDF, 1 page)    

  From the film’s website: Are people spiritual because they need a crutch, or do they sense something others don’t? A film director with a burning question goes to India, where almost two million Westerners travel as spiritual tourists each year. Are they running away from something, or towards something? A Swedish Tai Chi teacher […]

Paris, France – Christian bishops in Germany, Austria and Russia have sharply criticised Saudi Arabia’s top religious official after reports that he issued a fatwa saying all churches on the Arabian Peninsula should be destroyed.

 Council member & Chair of our Europe & Middle East region, Rev. Drs. Wytske Dijkstra, was invited to attend & address on behalf of IARF a symposium of the Bektashi Sufi Order in Tirana, Albania, in commemoration of their late leader Haji Reshat Bardhi Dedebaba (1935–2011). The audience included the Prime Minister of Albania and other government ministers, civil servants, and representatives […]

  In its Monday edition, The Telegraph English language daily carried a morphed picture of a naked woman holding an image of the goddess Kali in front of a cricketer — believed to be a Pakistani — bowing before it. The newspaper had taken the picture from the Twitter account of a reader. However, its […]

  India, March 21, 2012: The US government panel that monitors global religious freedom has once again listed India among countries that require close monitoring due to religious freedom violation.   USCIRF Identifies World’s Worst Religious Freedom Violators    

 25 March 2012 The 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council has just ended.  You can read here a statement made by Heiner Bielefeldt, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, during the interactive dialogue, and also download his latest (2012) Report presented to the Council.