Keeping the Faith: Religion, Freedom, and International Affairs.
USA Today Magazine › Vol. 128 Nbr. 2656, January 2000
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Issues on religion, such as religious persecution, are generally ignored by the world's media
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Keeping the Faith: Religion, Freedom, and International Affairs.
"Religious rights must be at the forefront of any sound human rights policy."
AT THE END OF 1997, former New York Times executive editor A.M. Rosenthal confessed: "I realized hat in decades of reporting, writing, or assigning stories on human rights, I rarely touched on one of the most important. Political human rights, legal, civil, and press rights, emphatically often; but the right to worship where and how God or conscience leads, almost never." The habit of ignoring religious persecution is all too common in the West. On Aug. 22, 1998, for example, seven leaders of underground churches in China released an unprecedented joint statement calling for dialogue with the communist government. The U.S. media virtually ignored the statement, despite the fact that these leaders represent the only nationwide group in China not under government control. Their membership of 15,000,000 is several times larger than the population of Ti...See the full content of this document
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