Originally published in Christian Headlines A Christian factory worker in Scotland has won over $26 000 (R414 000) in a religious discrimination suit after he was fired from his job for refusing to remove his cross necklace. According to The Telegraph, Jevgenijs Kovalkovs was fired from chicken wholesalers 2 Sisters Food […]
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Finnish MP legal fight over Bible tweet on homosexuality continues as Court of Appeals reopens case
Originally published in Christian News The Helsinki Court of Appeals in Finland has accepted the complaint of the Finnish state prosecutor and will reopen the case against Christian Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Pohjola. Both Rasanen and Bishop Pohjola were accused of hate speech for sharing their thoughts on […]
If we are always defending are we losing? — Philip Rosenthal
Business people sometimes ask me whether we ever win — since we are always defending against new threats? It can be depressing, when the government introduces one anti-family, anti-life, anti-business policy after another — as soon as we have fought off one, then there is another one. So are we […]
Draft health regulations deadline ends but concerns remain
Proposed measures consolidate unaccountable power in a single minister The deadline for submitting comments on the draft health regulations ended at midnight on Sunday April 24, but grave concerns about their application and future implementation remain. The DearSA online platform alone registered over 283 000 individual submissions with the Department […]
Department of Health has been deleting emails, says FOR SA
With just three days left for South Africans to comment on controversial draft health regulations indications are that the government will face multiple challenges to its plans to perpetuate executive rule after the lifting of the state of disaster, says Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) executive director Michael […]
Fight continues for Finnish MP who tweeted about marriage and sexuality
Originally published in Christian Today Finland’s state prosecutor is to appeal after a Christian MP was cleared of hate speech for publicly sharing her views on marriage and sexuality. Päivi Räsänen, former Finnish Minister of the Interior, stood trial alongside Bishop Juhana Pohjola. Räsänen was charged over comments in a […]
EDITORIAL: Last week to have your say on health regulations that threaten your freedoms
South Africans have until April 15 to comment on draft health regulations which, if passed, could effectively plunge our country into a permanent state of disaster in which the health minister can drastically limit your constitutional freedoms without any parliamentary oversight. One positive that is coming out of this is […]
FOR SA asks CRL to intervene in draft health regulations as Church balks at ‘vaccine mandate’
Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) has requested the Cultural, Religious and Linguistics (CRL) Rights Commission to assist the religious community by intervening in its conflict with the government over controversial draft health regulations which the state wants to introduce in place of the state of disaster which was […]
Religious leaders call for united action against proposed ‘draconian’ health regulations
Senior religious leaders agreed today that they need to unite to fight government plans to impose “draconian” new health regulations “that threaten the future of Christianity in South Africa”. In a Zoom meeting hosted by Freedom of Religion South Africa, speaker after speaker agreed on the need for a two-pronged […]
Chinese Christians banned from sharing religious content online
Originally published in Christian News Christians in China are facing a crackdown by their government, to control every word and image of religious content they post on the internet. The country’s unregistered house churches, aided by online content, to survive the pandemic and persecution, are having that support stripped away, according […]