Netflix Review: Petra Costa decodes Brazil’s faith-politics nexus
Apocalypse in the Tropics; Documentary; Netflix; 1:48; Director Peter Costa After the 2019 ‘Edge of Democracy’, Peter Costa’s ‘Apocalypse in...
March 31, 2025
Faith-based Hindu school promise ignites debate
MELBOURNE , 30 March, 2025: During a recent visit to the BAPS Swaminarayan Temple and Cultural Precinct and to meet...
March 28, 2025
Will Trump use US religious freedom report to further pressure India into submission?
Already under pressure from the Trump administration, which has reportedly asked India—successfully, some would say—to remove high tariffs on American...
August 6, 2024
HFHR & THP urge for secular democratic Bangladesh
MELBOURNE, 6 August 2024: The dramatic developments that led to the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and she fleeing...
August 25, 2022
Rationalist Society concern over tax-payer funded religion in schools
A grassroots mobilisation that embraces secularism is needed to counter increased religious interference in Australia’s public education system, the latest...
June 28, 2022
Australia’s 2021 Census: ‘No religion’ surge amid religious diversity
MELBOURNE, 28 June 2022: The 2021 Census has revealed increasing diversity in the religions Australians identified, reflecting continuing changes in...
May 5, 2022
BOOK REVIEW: Feminists on how clericalism and patriarchy have steeped in Church and the country
There are books and books: some are meant to decorate bookshelves, others are read and forgotten; then there are still...
April 26, 2022
Beyond religion? Why Thampu’s book is a footnote to religious texts
“Religious traditions are like the trellis that you make around a sapling to enable it to grow. But when it...
February 1, 2022
BOOK REVIEW: Rise of ‘new untouchables’
A new book by two veteran academics, “Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politics: India’s Injurious Frame of Communalism”, perhaps...
April 22, 2021
Pakistan, India, Russia, China among “countries of particular concern” over ‘religious freedom’: US report
By SAT News Desk Washington, D.C./MELBOURNE – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today (21 April 2021)...
