Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Brazil's Supreme Court Head Allows Video Satirizing Jesus to Be Shown On Netflix

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AFP and AP  report that the President of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court last Thursday overturned a lower court's preliminary injunct...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Brazilian Court Rejects Censorship of Play Depicting Jesus As Trans Woman

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In Brazil last week, the São Paulo Court of Justice (the highest state court) lifted an emergency injunction that had been issued by a local...
Friday, September 29, 2017

Brazil's Supreme Court Upholds Denominational Religious Classes In Public Schools

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Brazil's Constitution , Article 210, provides: "Minimum curricula shall be established for elementary schools.... The teaching of r...
Friday, December 02, 2016

Brazil's Supreme Federal Court Invalidates Sentences of Abortion Clinic Workers

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On Tuesday, a 4-judge panel of the First Chamber of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court overturned the jail sentences of 5 people who were wo...
Thursday, November 03, 2016

Brazilian Court Awards Damages Against Priest Who Prevented An Abortion

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Life Site News reported yesterday that Brazil's appellate court, the Superior Tribunal de Justiça , has ruled in favor of a couple that...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Olympic Village Now Includes Brazilian-African Religions With Others

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Crux reported yesterday that in Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, the interfaith center this year includes priests from the Brazilian-Afri...
Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Brazilian Court Trains Clergy As Mediators

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Religion News Service reports on an experimental mediation program instituted by the courts in the Brazilian state of Goias.  In a program ...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Abortion Restrictions In Latin America Remain Despite Zika Virus Spread

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With the Zika virus spreading fast in a number of Latin American countries and the disease's link to microcephaly in newborns, the debat...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Brazilian Court Affirms Right of Adventist To Close His Service Station For Sabbath

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Adventist Review reported yesterday that a court in Brazil has issued an injunction upholding the right of a Seventh Day Adventist to keep ...