by Lisa Sharlach | Apr 8, 2002 | Opinion
Does religion permit government to kill its own citizens? According to international law, the answer is never. International law prohibits the death penalty. According to the Islamic legal code known as sharia, however, sex between an unmarried man and woman is a...
by Robert Parham | Nov 6, 2001 | Opinion
Afghanistan, Burma, China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam were listed as the worst violators of religious freedom, according to the U.S. State Department’s 2001 International Religious Freedom Report. These totalitarian or authoritarian regimes sought to...