Ms. Shea is the highly respected director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House and an influential member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
The current building has been a vicarage, home to a Catholic religious order, a family house and most recently a youth hostel between 1960 and 2006.
This is the written statement of Nina Shea , Director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, before the International Religious Freedom Caucus of the US House of Representatives.
He retains considerable religious authority despite being put under house arrest four years ago after issuing a statement questioning the powers being exercised by the current Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamene'i.
The informal coalition, which lobbied against the public offering, included groups such as Friends of the Earth, Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom, the American Anti-Slavery Group, the AFL-CIO, and the International Campaign for Tibet.
The debt-relief measure, championed by the White House, charity groups and religious and cultural figures from Pope John Paul II to singer Bono of the rock band U2, allows the United States to pay its share under the global Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative to forgive the debts of some 30 Third World countries.
So I want to know if the White House is concerned that a top religious figure is making charges of this nature about the President and his administration.
The true face of the Saudi agenda was laid bare in January 2005 when the Center for Religious Freedom, at the time associated with Freedom House and currently housed at the Hudson Institute, published a report on hate literature distributed to mosques all over America by the embassy of Saudi Arabia and its agents.
Philosophically, America's Commission on International Religious Freedom (a bipartisan body that advises Congress and the White House) is in step with the Obama mood.
This extreme reactionary creed was then used as the religious justification for military conquest and violence against Muslim neighbors of the House of Saud.
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The midmorning blast in a farming village near Mian Channu, in Punjab province, appeared to have been caused by explosives stored in the house of a teacher who had set up a small religious school, a police official said.
Privately, several officials also said Bremer was carrying a stern message from the president that it is time, as one put it, to "light a fire" under the council, whose work, in the view of the White House, has been stalled by personal, ethnic and religious rivalries.
More than 180 religious leaders, joined by several former Cabinet members, urged the White House to halt the deal.
The White House has struggled for months to reconcile the objections of the religious groups, as key allies including women's groups insisted President Barack Obama stand by a commitment to expanding access to contraception.
White House officials say safeguards would be in place to make sure the religious groups do not use the money to proselytize.
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Included in that law, with quiet support from the White House, was an amendment by Republican Senator John Ashcroft that let churches and religious groups bid on government contracts to provide job training and other services.
Obama's rationale, that "our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable, " seems utterly irrelevant to the issue of why the proposed Cordoba House should be constructed at Ground Zero.
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- The House of Lords has backed new government rules to allow limited cloning of human embryos, though religious leaders from across the spectrum urged them to oppose the measures.
But to win the White House, you need independent voters -- and they are not only the largest but the least religious segment of the electorate.
Most people have a modern house elsewhere on the reservation, and so the time spent living in the Pueblo is for intense religious rituals, for learning how to live in the traditional ways, to become selfsufficient.
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