WASHINGTON (BP) — Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore has joined a diverse collection of religious liberty advocates to urge members of Congress to reauthorize an important federal panel on global religious freedom as the deadline for doing so nears. Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and 85 others signed onto a letter […]
From WORLD. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY | International advocates back Sen. Marco Rubio’s reauthorization bill and insist the United States needs a strong, independent voice for religious liberty by J.C. Derrick. Posted 8/26/15, 08:25 am WASHINGTON—A coalition of international religious freedom groups is urging the Senate to approve a six-year reauthorization for the United States [...]
Will Senator Grassley kill the Smarter Sentencing Act? From the Marshall Project. By Christie Thompson. Filed12:17 p.m. 11.17.2014. As advocates of criminal justice reform cheer the growing bipartisan support for changes in drug-sentencing laws, one tough-on-crime senator remains unconvinced. Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, is a long-time champion of the mandatory minimum [...]
From 24 February-2 March 2014, the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE) held two successive conferences focusing on religion, security, and citizenship in Central Asia and South Asia. The first conference was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in partnership with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Institute for Public Policy. The second conference took place […]
On 5-6 December 2013, the Institute for Global Engagement, together with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, held a conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan on “Religion, Security and Citizenship in Central Asia.” The conference was the second in the “Religion, Security and Citizenship in Central Asia” series, the first having been held in May of this […]
