{"id":113525,"date":"2022-07-02T16:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113525"},"modified":"2022-07-02T17:57:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T21:57:04","slug":"church-times-mps-hear-horror-stories-as-the-uk-prepares-to-host-conference-on-freedom-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113525","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) MPs hear horror stories as the UK prepares to host conference on freedom of religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plight of Christians, Muslims, and humanists around the world was raised in a Westminster Hall debate on Tuesday morning, in advance of an international conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) next week.<\/p>\n<p>The session was opened by the Prime Minister\u2019s special envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Fiona Bruce MP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMillions of people today are being denied their FoRB,\u201d Ms Bruce told the gathering of parliamentarians. \u201cFoRB violations are getting worse in severity and scale. Right across the world people are losing their jobs, education, homes, livelihoods, families, freedom, access to justice, even life itself, simply on account of what they believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The international Ministerial Conference on FoRB next week will gather more than 500 politicians, faith leaders, and experts to share best practice on protecting religious freedom and to inspire more action to be taken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2022\/1-july\/news\/uk\/mps-hear-horror-stories-as-the-uk-prepares-to-host-conference-on-freedom-of-religion\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LATEST. The plight of Christians, Muslims, and humanists around the world was raised in a Westminster Hall debate on Tuesday morning, in advance of an international conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) next week<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tp5AiAf2dg\">https:\/\/t.co\/tp5AiAf2dg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1542521635906867202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plight of Christians, Muslims, and humanists around the world was raised in a Westminster Hall debate on Tuesday morning, in advance of an international conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) next week. The session was opened by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113525\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,144,119,151,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-politics-in-general","category-religious-freedom-persecution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113528,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113525\/revisions\/113528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}