{"id":103616,"date":"2024-02-13T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=103616"},"modified":"2024-02-12T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T01:05:00","slug":"religious-freedom-a-fundamental-human-right-at-risk-for-80-percent-of-the-worlds-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/religious-freedom-a-fundamental-human-right-at-risk-for-80-percent-of-the-worlds-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Freedom: A Fundamental Human Right at Risk for 80 Percent of the World’s Population"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, D.C., and LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 13, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — \u201cThe challenges to religious freedom across the globe are structural, systemic, and deeply entrenched,\u201d\u00a0said U.S. Secretary of State Mr. Antony Blinken\u00a0in a statement January 4<\/a>. \u201cBut with thoughtful, sustained commitment from those who are unwilling to accept hatred, intolerance, and persecution as the status quo we will one day see a world where all people live with dignity and equality.\u201d It is just such a sustained commitment that informed the annual IRF Summit January 30 and 31, 2024. The Church of Scientology supports and participates in the annual summit and programs that protect and advance this vital freedom for all.<\/p>\n

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Caption: International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Summit was cochaired by Ambassador Sam Brownback, former U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom (2018\u20132021), and Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett,\u00a0President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice and\u00a0former chair and vice-chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan U.S. Government commission established to monitor religious freedom abroad.<\/p>\n

The Summit featured 169 speakers representing more than 30 unique faith traditions. Some 1,500 religious freedom proponents of diverse cultural backgrounds and political perspectives from 41 countries participated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe IRF Summit is a gathering of people from around the world that really seek the same thing,\u201d said Ambassador Brownback in a video on the\u00a0IRF Summit website<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cReligious freedom for everyone, everywhere, all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThose of us who are fortunate enough to have that freedom as just a natural birthright, we really have a moral duty to act on behalf of those who are struggling for something that we take for granted every day,\u201d said Dr. Lantos Swett.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur failure to pay attention to religious freedom paves the way for atrocities,\u201d said human rights advocate, D.C.-based attorney Nury Turkel, current chair of the USCIRF.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0IRF Summit Charter<\/a>, established in July 2021, holds that \u201cevery government, every religious community, and every political and civil society organization in the world should strive toward the goal of achieving freedom of religion and conscience, for everyone, everywhere \u2014 protected in law and valued by culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Summit is dedicated to growing a powerful coalition of organizations that operate together to promote religious freedom around the world and increase public awareness and political strength for the international religious freedom movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis summit provides a voice to those who are silenced at a time when virtually every faith is under attack somewhere in the world,\u201d said Rev. Olivia McDuff, public affairs staff at the Church of Scientology International.\u00a0\u201cSupport of religious freedom for all is enshrined in the\u00a0Creed of the Church of Scientology, written by author, humanitarian and Scientology Founder L.\u00a0Ron\u00a0Hubbard. It affirms that \u2018all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practices and their performance.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In a world where conflicts are often traceable to intolerance of others\u2019 religious beliefs and practices, the Church of Scientology has, for more than 50 years, made the preservation of religious liberty an overriding concern.<\/p>\n

Watch the\u00a0Creed of the Church of Scientology<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0Scientology Network<\/a>. For more information on the advocacy of the Church of Scientology for the freedom of religion or belief of all, visit your nearest Church of Scientology<\/a>, the\u00a0Church of Scientology religious freedom website<\/a>,\u00a0its\u00a0religious freedom blog<\/a>, or download a copy of the booklet\u00a0\u201cWhat is Freedom of Religion<\/a>,\u201d published by the Church of Scientology International.<\/p>\n

LEARN MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.scientologynews.org\/press-releases\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.scientologyreligion.org\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.scientology.tv\/series\/scientology-principles\/the-creed-of-the-church-of-scientology.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.scientology.tv\/series\/scientology-principles\/the-creed-of-the-church-of-scientology.html<\/a><\/p>\n

VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.scientology.tv\/series\/scientology-principles\/the-creed-of-the-church-of-scientology.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo link for media: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/23-0213-s2p-cosirf24-300dpi.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

Caption: International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit 2024<\/p>\n

TAGS: #FreedomofReligionorBelief #HumanRights #ScientologyReligionBlog #CreedoftheChurchofScientology #IRFSummit2024 #UniversalDeclarationofHumanRights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, D.C., and LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 13, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — “The challenges to religious freedom across the globe are structural, systemic, and deeply entrenched,” said U.S. Secretary of State Mr. Antony Blinken in a statement January 4. “But with thoughtful, sustained commitment from those who are unwilling to accept hatred, intolerance, and persecution as the status quo we will one day see a world where all people live with dignity and equality.” It is just such a sustained commitment that informed the annual IRF Summit January 30 and 31, 2024. The Church of Scientology supports and participates in the annual summit and programs that protect and advance this vital freedom for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8949,"featured_media":103601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[608,12804,228],"tags":[12200],"class_list":["post-103616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion-news","category-ap","category-washington-dc-news","tag-religious-freedom","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":2786,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}