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WEF Calls For Religious Freedom Before The United Nations
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World Evangelical Fellowship Calls For Religious
Freedom Before The United Nations
Geneva, Switzerland. World Evangelical Fellowship
(WEF), in a declaration to the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights this week in Geneva
Switzerland, requests that the World Conference on
Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and
Related Intolerance pay significant attention to
all types of religious intolerance. Furthermore
WEF calls for protection for the right to freedom
of thought, conscience and religion as stated in
Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
The leader of the WEF delegation states: "The
search for national identity in China, Bangladesh,
Indonesia, India and Pakistan combined with the
fact that the Christian church is growing very
rapidly in these countries is creating difficult
situations for Christians and other minority
religions. As persecution of Christians often
starts with disinformation in the mass media, we
need to act as soon as we see the first signs of
dissemination of incorrect information. WEF is
working in a proactive rather than reactive way
which requires significant interaction with
Ambassadors and members of the UN Commission on
Human Rights be held during these Geneva
sessions."
In the report, World Evangelical Fellowship
recognises ongoing concerns in Turkmenistan, Laos,
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, India, and Turkey. While
WEF sees progress in a number of former communist
countries, it acknowledges that there is still
work to be done.
Through its network of 113 national and regional
evangelical fellowships, WEF represents 160
million evangelical Christians in a million local
churches world-wide. (A contribution of World
Evangelical Fellowship (WEF))
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