Tag: religious freedom

WASHINGTON (RNS) Half of Americans worry that religious freedom in the U.S. is at risk, and many say activist groups — particularly gays and lesbians — are trying to remove “traditional Christian values” from the public square.

Religious believers throughout the world face a rising tide of restrictions, according to a study released Thursday (Sept. 20).
In the one-year period ending in mid-2010, 75 percent of the world’s population lived in a nation with high or very high restrictions on religious beliefs or practices, according to the study conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Pew tracked religious freedoms denied by government and cultural authorities.

It may come as quite a shock to discover that in a country which prides itself on claims of religious freedom for all, that basic freedom was denied to the very people who inhabited North America first: the American Indian.