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Two American families in the not-so-distant future decide to flee
their homeland in the wake of new laws that limited their religious
freedoms. It seemed that this religious intolerance as well as the
moral decay of their society had made them apprehensive about the
future of their families and their country and, so, the adventure
started. It led them and a number of others who joined them on a
dangerous journey filled with challenges and danger to a new land
far from their native shores. It is an adventure that you will not
soon forget. This book is in the apocalyptic spirit of Tim LaHaye
and Jerry Jenkin's "Left Behind" series with the edginess of
William P. Young's "The Shack.
This report was compiled by the U.S. Department of State for 2012.
The study found that the government increased its targeting and
surveillance of members of faith groups it deemed a "threat,"
including members of the country's Sunni majority. This occurred
concurrently with the escalation of the civil conflict that
resulted in the regime killing 35,000 civilians between the start
of the uprising in 2011 and year's end. Such targeting included
killing, detention, and harassment. There were credible reports
that the regime targeted citizens based on religious affiliation in
mixed neighborhoods in Homs and rural Aleppo. The government
outlawed groups it claimed were "Muslim extremist groups," as well
as Jehovah's Witnesses. It continued to monitor the activities of
all religious groups and to discourage proselytizing, which it
deemed a threat to relations among and within different faiths.
Large Print Edition 18pt]
Africa continues to be a region with strong commitments to
religious freedom and religious pluralism. These, however, are
rarely mere facts on the ground – they are legal, political,
social, and theological projects that require considerable effort
to realise. This volume – compiling the proceedings of the third
annual conference of the African Consortium for Law and Religion
Studies – focuses on various issues which vastly effect the
understanding of religious pluralism in Africa. These include,
amongst others, religious freedom as a human right, the importance
of managing religious pluralism, and the permissibility of
religious practice and observance in South African public schools.
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Gina Gonzalez
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