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Boston Attacks Add to Social Hostilities Involving Religion in the United...
AP Photo/Charles Krupa The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings reportedly has indicated that his older brother was the mastermind of the attack. CNN reports that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told...
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TEDx Talk: The numbers of religious freedom
This TEDx talk* provides an overview of Pew Research findings on the rising tide of restrictions on religion around the world coming from governments as well as groups in society. For more, see the...
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Pew Research on religious freedom is like a thermometer. It measures, but...
Pew Research research has completely changed the way people now talk about religious freedom. It has shifted from the 20th Century paradigm that focused primarily on the types of government...
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Brian Grim talks about the Pew Research Center's restrictions on religion studies at the April 2013 TEDx ViaDellaConciliazione conference at the Vatican.This 10-question Weekly Number quiz tests your...
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Pew Research on religious freedom is like a thermometer - it measures but...
Pew Research research has completely changed the way people now talk about religious freedom. It has shifted from the 20th Century paradigm that focused primarily on the types of government...
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Muslim opinions vary on how free people of other religions are to practice...
A new Pew Research report looks at attitudes among Muslims in 39 countries on a wide range of topics, from science to sharia, democracy to religious freedom.* Muslim public opinion varies...
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Religious freedom festival in BRAZIL hears that 3-in-4 people live with HIGH...
São Paulo, Brazil, religious freedom festival This week, at the global religious freedom festival in São Paulo, Brazil - the western hemisphere's most populous city at 20 million - high level...
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In this age of globalization, religious hostilities and restrictions cross...
Cross-border religious hostilities include Lebanon's Hezbollah joining the fight in neighboring Syria as well as Hezbollah reportedly having an armory a continent away in northern Nigeria New Hezbollah...
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16% of people have no religious affiliation - most don't live in the West. Who are they?(See corrected blog.)
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16% of the world's people are religiously unaffiliated - most do not live in...
My recent TEDx Talk notes that the religiously unaffiliated account for about one-in-six (16%) people worldwide. What I did not mention was that 76% of the religiously unaffiliated are concentrated in...
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Women are harassed in one-in-five nations over religious dress: Abuses mostly...
Amidst mass protests in Istanbul last week, CNN reported that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused demonstrators of stoking sectarian violence by attacking a woman who was wearing a...
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Arab Spring adds to global restrictions on religion: 5.1 Billion people live...
New Report Finds that Arab Spring Adds to Global Restrictions on Religion Each of the Five Major Regions of the World Experiences IncreaseWashington, D.C. June 20, 2013 — A new study by the Pew...
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76% of countries engaged in initiatives to reduce religious hostilities and...
© BmeiA UNAOC (Cardinal Onaiyekan, Imam Jega, Fr. Haddad, Dr. Grim) As religious restrictions and hostilities have risen around the world, 76% of countries had initiatives to lower them, according to a...
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TEDx Talk leads the 10 most-shared Weekly Number blogs in mid-2013
The most popular Weekly Number blog in 2013? - TEDx Talk In honor of this week's 4th of July holiday in the United States, the ten most popular Weekly Number blogs thus far in 2013 are highlighted...
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Political crisis in Egypt coincides with highest government restrictions on...
© Robert Marien/Corbis/AP Images Pew Research gives context to the current crisis in Egypt, which last week saw the removal by the military of Pres. Mohammed Morsi, an Islamist and the first...
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More than half of countries do it: But interfaith dialogue may be easier said...
Interfaith center in Vienna (Photo: P. Hautzinger) Dialogue may be easier said than done. Recently, Pope Francis called for more active dialogue with Islam. But the pontiff's envoy to Muslim-majority...
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Brazil has lowest government restrictions on religion among 25 most populous...
Pope Francis will celebrate World Youth Day this week in one of the most religiously non-restrictive countries on the planet, according to a recent Pew Research study. It is a country also undergoing...
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As U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue commences this week, study finds...
For two years running, religious groups were harassed in four-in-five countries (81%) worldwide, according to a recent Pew Research study. This finding is notable as government representatives from...
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10 things you might not know about Muslims (but should), as Pope Francis...
Taj Mahal - jewel of Muslim art in India (© BJ Grim) Last week, Pope Francis took the rare step of personally expressing his “esteem and friendship” to the world’s Muslims as they prepare to celebrate...
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5 facts about religion-related terror, as two U.S. outposts remain closed
US Embassy, Bahrain (AP Hasan Jamali) As U.S. outposts in Yemen and Pakistan remain closed after terror scares resulted in the closure last week of 19 embassies and consulates, a recent Pew Research...
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