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Press Releases and Articles


2008

January 21, 2008:  Article by Mithu Maheswaranathan in Emory Wheel:  Law Professor Gets Religion Award

January 17, 2008:  Article by Robin Farmer in Richmond Times Dispatch:  Three Get First Freedom Awards

January 16, 2008:  Article by Jane Lampman in Christian Science Monitor on honorees at 2008 First Freedom Awards Dinner  

January 16, 2008:  Article by Katherine T. Phan in The Christian Post:  America Marks Religious Freedom Day

January 14, 2008:  Article by Robin Farmer in Richmond Times Dispatch:  Religious Freedom Awards Go to 3

January 7, 2008:  Article in Richmond Times Dispatch:  Remonstrance


2007

December 28, 2007:  Media Alert:  January 17, 2008 Jakob A. Finci Lecture:  Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Reconciliation - Sixty Years of Life and Death in Bosnia

December 28, 2007:  Advertisement for January 17 Jakob A. Finci Lecture (CANCELLED)

December 15, 2007:  Article by Isabelle Kinnard in Fredericksburg's Free Lance-Star:  Bill of Rights Day Right No. 1

December 12, 2007:  Press Release:  2008 First Freedom Award Recipients Announced;

Awards Dinner January 16, 2008

December 12, 2007:  2008 First Freedom Award Recipient Bios

December 6, 2007:  Op-ed by Robert A. Seiple in Richmond Times Dispatch:  'Tis the Season to Embrace the Sacred in Our Celebrations

October 20, 2007:  Letter to the Editor by Isabelle Kinnard in Richmond Times Dispatch:  Religious Freedom Allows Intolerant Beliefs

October 1, 2007:  Article by Bethany Emerson in the CT (independent student press of Virginia Commonwealth University):  New exhibit examines history of religious freedom

September 28, 2007:  Press Release:  The Constitution and Religion in the Classroom, First Amendment Teaching Materials Launched to Nation's Schools

September 19, 2007:  Article by Janet Caggiano in Richmond Times Dispatch:  Religious Freedom Exhibit Set to Open, 'Religious Freedom is Still an Imperfect Struggle'

September 19, 2007:  "Faces of Religious Freedom" exhibit opening honoring Ukrops/First Market Bank.  See: Selected exhibit text.

TV NEWS. September 17, 2007:  Richmond Channel 12 news report by Gene Lepley: Faces of Religious Freedom Exhibit

September 17, 2007:  Article in Adventist News Network:  Religious liberty experts call for increased understanding among faith groups

August 3, 2007:  Keynote Address: After Twenty-five Years by Robert A. Seiple in Brigham Young University Law Review

June 21, 2007:  Op-ed by Robert A. Seiple in Christian Science Monitor: The World's Prominent Faiths Should Protect Religious Freedom for All

June 3, 2007:  Op-ed by Eve Sugar in Richmond Times DispatchTolerant Senator Leaves the Room

April 17, 2007: Press Release: National First Freedom Student Competition Winners Announced

First Place Essay: National First Freedom Student Competition

March 27, 2007:  Article by Gary Robertson in Richmond Times Dispatch:  Pearl's Death Inspires Dialogue

March 12, 2007:  Article by Andrew Trotter in Education Week on-line:  Consensus Sought on Religion in Schools

March 9, 2007: Media Alert -- Rethink: From Hatred to Hope: A Daniel Pearl Dialogue

March 1, 2007:  Article in Adventist News Network:  Seiple Speeks to IRLA World Conference encouraging the "Separation of Church and Hate."

March 1, 2007: Article in Liberty Online: Focused on Freedom (IRLA in South Africa)

January 26, 2007:  Article by Alberta Lindsey, Richmond Times Dispatch, on Madeleine Albright at the Council's First Freedom Awards Dinner

January 25, 2007:  Article in Richmond Times Dispatch: Albright among four liberty award winners

January 7, 2007: Op-ed by Robert A. Seiple in Richmond Times Dispatch: Tolerating 'Offenses': Religious Free Will in America Must Continue to be Protected

January 6, 2007: Religious Briefs, Richmond Times Dispatch: Groups joining forces on religious diversity

January 3, 2007: Article by David Ress, Richmond Times Dispatch: Religious-Freedom Group Shifts Emphasis (But it still plans a museum at 14th Street site)


2006

December 21, 2006:  Top 10 Myths About Religious Freedom

December 6, 2006:  Article by Edwin Slipek, Jr. in StyleWeekly.com: Small Development, Big Impact

November 15, 2006:  Article by Melissa Scott Sinclair, StyleWeekly.com: The Most Important Parking Lot

October 12, 2006:  Framing the Debate:  Religion in the Public Schools, University of Richmond

September 20, 2006:  2007 First Freedom Award Recipients Announced; Madeleine Albright to Keynote

September 18, 2006:  Framing the Debate:  Religion in the Public Square, Baylor University

April 13, 2006: First Freedom Student Competition Winners Announced

January 25, 2006: Council for America's First Freedom Names New President

January 25, 2006: Seventh annual Mattox Debate to discuss the place of public prayer in Virginia law

January 25, 2006: Media Alert - Seventh Annual Mattox Debate

January 19, 2006: Richmond Times Dispatch - Seiple to lead Freedom Council

January 18, 2006: Media Alert - 2006 First Freedom Awards Dinner & Presentation

January 11, 2006: Sisisky Family Donates $250,000 to First Freedom Center


2005

December 5, 2005: First Freedom Award Recipients Announced

October 3, 2005: Most Americans Conflicted on Church-State Separation, National Survey Finds

January 7, 2005: Extremist Islam, Genocide in Sudan Top 2004 List of Issues Affecting Religious Freedom (Council for America's First Freedom Cites "Perils and Progress" at Home and Abroad in Year-End Assessment)

January 6, 2005: 2005 First Freedom Award Recipients Announced (Council for America’s First Freedom Honors Three Advocates for Religious Liberty with 11th Annual Prize)

January 3, 2005: Local High-School Student(s) to be Honored

January 3, 2005: Williamsburg Teacher to be Honored for Teaching Excellence

 

2004

September 21, 2004: First Freedom Center Lobby To Bear Gumenick Name

September 14, 2004: Right to Worship Among Americans' Most Prized Freedoms
(But Many Less Sure about Church-State Separation, National Survey Finds)

Executive Summary

June 7, 2004: U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Issues Annual Report...Findings Confirm Need for Education

May 21, 2004: Council Welcomes New Education Director in Preparation to Launch National Education Program

March 15, 2004: Council Builds Organization with New Trustees

Jan. 15, 2004: Virginia Religious Leader, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Director of the Spanish Ministry of Justice Receive 2004 First Freedom Awards

 

2003

December 31, 2003: Wise County Teacher to be Honored

December 31, 2003: Local High-school Students to be Honored

November 12, 2003: Council Inaugurates Campaign to Build First Freedom Center

October 1, 2003: Council Builds Organization with New Trustees

 

2002

November 4, 2002: Largest Challenge Grant in Council History Sets the Pace for the "Virginia First" Capital (Campaign Campaign Leadership Council Steps Forward to Advance Plans for a National Center for Religious Freedom in Richmond).


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