Persecution - articles

When freedoms are curtailed: Verbal terrorism

Like almost all Americans I am a firm believer in our cherished, constitutionally protected freedom of speech. The courts have always recognized that there are limits to freedom of speech, however, since no freedom is absolute. more »

By Richard Land - Nov 6, 2007 - (7)

Topic: Faith, Pastoral Integrity, Citizenship, Persecution, Religious Liberty, War

Shining the light on North Korea

The worst country in the world for a person to wake up in the morning is North Korea, where all of the citizens that are not part of the totalitarian state government apparatus are prisoners. more »

By Richard Land - Jul 24, 2007

Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, Persecution, Religious Liberty

Evangelicals for Darfur

There is widespread agreement that the ongoing deadly conflict in Darfur will not be resolved without intervention from nations around the world. more »

By staff - Nov 13, 2006 - (1)

Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, Persecution, Religious Liberty

Evangelicals for Darfur coalition step up efforts to end the genocide

WASHINGTON (BP)—Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land, joining a diverse group of evangelicals in a teleconference on the bloodshed in Darfur, noted that “would-be perpetrators of genocide in other capitals around the world are watching closely to see if we are going to allow the gangsters in Khartoum [Sudan’s capital] to get away with it.” more »

By Dwayne Hastings - Oct 19, 2006 - (5)

Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, Persecution, Issues

Statement of Principles on North Korea: Its Suffering People and the Threat of its Regime

Foreward

This Statement of Principles by concerned American religious, human rights, security, social, and civil leaders reflects our deep concern for the widespread denial of basic human rights to suffering people of North Korea – and for the North Korean refugees whose right to lawful treatment is now being systematically denied. more »

By various - Jul 1, 2006

Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, Persecution, Religious Liberty, Issues

We Cannot Say We Did Not Know

Since 2003, government forces and government-backed militias from Arab tribes, “janjaweed,” have engaged in a modern-day pogrom targeting African Muslim civilians in the Darfur region of western Sudan. more »

By Richard Land - May 1, 2006 - (3)

Topic: Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Human Rights, Persecution

Page 1 of 1 pages