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Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) has sent out an email alert encouraging broad public participation in the provincial consultations, and written submissions, on the Children’s Third Amendment Bill which outlaws any form of physical discipline at home. Provincial consultations on the bill will be held in August and September, […]
FOR SA this week filed their replying affidavit with the Constitutional Court in their application for leave to appeal against the so-called “spanking judgment”. It is expected that the court will now consider FOR SA’s application, together with the opposition received from the Minister of Social Development and the Centre […]
Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) says it will need to raise in the region of R1-million for legal costs for its appeal against the High Court judgment which removed “moderate and reasonable chastisement” as a common law defence that parents could use against a charge of assault. “Appealing this […]
Yesterday — Thursday November 9 2017 — Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) filed an application for leave to appeal against the recent judgment by the Johannesburg High Court which declared all physical chastisement of children by their parents – regardless of how light or well-intended – to be […]
Originally published in Mail & Guardian As of Thursday morning, the “reasonable chastisement” of a child by a parent is no longer a valid shield against a charge of common assault. Instead, any parent who hits a child faces the same potentially criminal treatment as if the victim had been […]
Originally published in Christian Today A Norwegian judge has ruled that the baby son of the Bodnariu family should be reunited with his parents. Ezekiel Bodnariu was removed from their custody with his four older siblings by Norway’s controversial Barnevernet or child welfare service last November. The judge also ruled […]
Originally published in Christian News Five Norwegian children who were seized by the country’s child welfare services department were allowed to see their parents this week — for the first time in three months. As previously reported, in November, the Barnevernet seized Marius and Ruth Bodnariu’s two daughters, two sons […]
By FOR SA Following the South African Human Rights Commission’s finding against them on Friday, January 22, Joshua Generation Church in Cape Town has said that they have no choice but to appeal the SAHRC’s findings and recommendations which they regard as an “unconstitutional censorship of religious belief in South […]
Church will appeal — to protect family and freedom of belief “Constant attempts to equate abuse and violence with reasonable chastisement or a spanking, are misguided and frankly disingenuous,” says the African Christian Democratic Party in its reaction to a report on corporal punishment at home by the SA Human […]
Joshua Generation Church (JGC) will champion the cause of defending religious freedom through an independent organisation operating under the auspices of the church, says lead elder, Andrew Selley. In a letter of thanks to church leaders who have stood with JGC as it has come under attack because of its […]