Lombardi said the Pope believes religious freedom in Cuba means more than the ability to worship freely.
Scholars of ancient societies consider that one line to be evidence of religious freedom.
In democratic countries, almost everybody agrees that religious freedom is a supremely important ideal.
Promoting religious freedom is one of the declared aims of the British Foreign Office.
Williams, who founded Rhode Island with a colonial charter that included religious freedom, knew intolerance firsthand.
But often overlooked was his forceful call for religious freedom in the Arab world.
On his release, he joined with other American churches to campaign for religious freedom.
The issue, they say, is not one of civil rights but of religious freedom.
On his visit to India this month, the pope stressed the need for religious freedom.
The people who fought for religious freedom were inviting into their midst the very opposite.
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But it was a fateful decision for the Maccabees with dreadful consequences for religious freedom.
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And we have in this country -- this country was founded on the notion of religious freedom.
The church itself often hits this note, making frequent statements in support of human rights and religious freedom.
The birth-control mandate also fails the Religious Freedom Restoration Act's "compelling governmental interest" and "least restrictive means" tests.
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Many expressed gratitude for their newfound religious freedom, but also called for the United States to leave Iraq.
Protecting religious freedom and religious minorities in Egypt is therefore a key element of our engagement with Cairo.
The refusal, for religious reasons, to provide birth-control coverage is clearly an exercise of religious freedom under the Constitution.
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They sued Pentagon officials and officers under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but their claims have been repeatedly rejected.
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"I believe in religious freedom, " the Greenwood, Ohio, resident wrote in an e-mail.
Fereshta Ludin, 31, a naturalised German of Afghan origin, says she is simply expressing her right to religious freedom.
The judge wasn't much impressed by that rationale and also questioned the condemnation for its encroachment on religious freedom.
This includes the belief in a single god as well as religious freedom.
Religious freedom could not compete with the threat of a widening smallpox epidemic.
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Today, we celebrate one of our Nation's first laws to protect that right -- the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
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But whatever America decides about that, expect some hard arguments in Geneva and elsewhere about the nature of religious freedom.
We contend that the IRS is required by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 to respect and accommodate the practice.
Indeed, a firm basis for religious freedom would be found in the Bible, supremely in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
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Whatever its real results, the American practice of watching and promoting religious freedom is being imitated, to some extent, by other democracies.
The Equalities Minister Maria Miller has said the government is committed to a "quadruple lock" package of safeguards to protect religious freedom.
And the European Union has sharply criticized Turkey's limitations on religious freedom.
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