{"id":35501,"date":"2020-06-24T09:27:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T09:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=35501"},"modified":"2020-06-24T09:27:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T09:27:45","slug":"us-bishops-religious-freedom-under-stress-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2020\/06\/24\/us-bishops-religious-freedom-under-stress-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"US BISHOPS: Religious freedom under stress around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the US Bishops observe \u201cReligious Freedom Week,\u201d the acting president of the USCCB\u2019s Committee for Religious Liberty warns against \u201cdiscrimination against religion in general and Catholic Christianity in particular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe right to religious freedom has its foundation in the very dignity of the human person,\u201d says Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami, the acting president of the USCCB\u2019s Committee for Religious Liberty. \u201cReligious freedom is the human right that guarantees all other rights \u2014 peace and creative living together will only be possible if freedom of religion is fully respected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Archbishop Wenski\u2019s statement comes at the beginning of the annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/issues-and-action\/religious-liberty\/religious-freedom-week\/index.cfm\">Religious Freedom Week<\/a>, which runs from the Feast of Sts Thomas More and John Fisher, 22 June through 29 June, the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul. During this week, Catholics are encouraged to pray and uphold religious liberty at home and abroad. The theme for this year\u2019s Religious Freedom Week is \u201cFor the Good of All.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cReligious freedom is under stress throughout the world,\u201d Archbishop Wenski declares in his statement. \u201cEven in our Western liberal democracies,\u201d he stresses, \u201cdiscrimination against religion in general and Catholic Christianity in particular, is growing \u2014 albeit in perhaps more sophisticated and less violent ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While acknowledging that \u201cPolitical analysts and human rights advocates do include religion on their agenda,\u201d he notes that, \u201cmost emphasize \u2018tolerance\u2019 as if religion were only a source of conflict. Or, they speak about religion in terms of \u2018individual choices,\u2019 as if religion were merely the concern of an individual\u2019s conviction and were devoid of any social consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the contrary, he explains, \u201cjust as freedom of speech depends not only on one\u2019s right to say what\u2019s on one\u2019s mind but also on the existence of institutions like newspapers, universities, libraries, political parties and other associations that make up what we call \u2018civil society,\u2019 so too freedom of religion \u2018for the good of all\u2019 must also encompass protecting those institutions that nourish the individual\u2019s free exercise of religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.S. Bishops\u2019 Religious Freedom Week \u2013 originally the \u201cFortnight for Freedom\u201d \u2013 was conceived in 2012 as a defence of religious liberty against threats \u201cboth at home and abroad.\u201d Each day of the week is dedicated to a different issue having to do with religious liberty; this year\u2019s topics include freedom to serve in health care, respect for houses of worship, and Catholic schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Credit<\/strong>: <em>Vatican News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/donate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35305 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Support-button-300x44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Support-button-300x44.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Support-button-580x85.jpg 580w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Support-button-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Support-button.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the US Bishops observe \u201cReligious Freedom Week,\u201d the acting president of the USCCB\u2019s Committee for Religious Liberty warns against \u201cdiscrimination against religion in general and Catholic Christianity in particular.&#8221; \u201cThe right to religious freedom has its foundation in the very dignity of the human person,\u201d says Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami, the acting president&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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