The New Missionaries: Should Canada Promote Religious Freedom Abroad?

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    Debating the Office of Religious Freedom

• The new office of religious freedom

  The Prime Minister names a new ambassador

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 0 Comments

• Federal government to announce Religious Freedom Office

  MAPLE, Ont. – The federal government is planning to announce its long-awaited Office of…

  by The Canadian Press - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 0 Comments

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  Constitutional lawyer: PQ Charter an empty fantasy

  The law on religious wear wouldn’t survive a court challenge

  by The Canadian Press - Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 0 Comments

• ‘Basic rights for all’

  Foreign Affairs has posted the text of John Baird’s speech in Washington yesterday on…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, May 25, 2012 - 0 Comments

• Four questions: Daniel C. Dennett on the most pervasive and serious threat religion poses to human rights

  ‘It’s the practices that are on the boundaries of what is acceptable to people that raise interesting problems’

  by Anouk Dey - Friday, February 24, 2012 - 0 Comments

• Four questions: Allen Hertzke on why Canada is better positioned than the U.S. to promote religious freedom

  And on the difference between protecting it at home and advancing it abroad

  by Anouk Dey - Friday, February 24, 2012 - 0 Comments

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  Video: Tony Burman on why faith should be kept out of foreign policy

  Promoting religious freedom abroad is meant to appease a domestic constituency

  by Anouk Dey - Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 0 Comments

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  Video: Thomas Farr on why faith has a place in foreign policy

  Religious freedom is essential to stabilizing struggling democracies

  by Anouk Dey - Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 0 Comments

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  Infographic: Religious persecution around the world

  In one third of countries, the problem is getting worse

  by Brian Grim - Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 0 Comments

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  Promoting religious freedom is complicated: extreme caution advised

  One has reason to doubt that the government is undertaking the careful thinking necessary

  by Janet Keeping - Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 0 Comments

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  Religious freedom does not mean freedom to practice illiberal religion

  To defend religious freedom no more implies its superiority to other human rights than to defend any such right

  by Clifford Orwin - Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 0 Comments

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  Debating the Office of Religious Freedom

  Welcome to The New Missionaries series, in partnership with the Canadian International Council

  by Paul Wells - Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 0 Comments

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