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The Seventh-day Adventist church strongly believes in religious freedom for all people. A person’s conscience, not government, should dictate his or her choice to worship—or not. We have advocated for these goals for more than 100 years, through our department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL), to governments and religious and ...
The mission of the North American Division Public Affairs & Religious Liberty (PARL) ministry is simple but all-encompassing: to proclaim and defend the God-given gift of religious freedom which is integral to our identity as Seventh-day Adventist Christians. Learn More.
The department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL) is part of the global endeavor of the SDA church to create favorable conditions to share the good news of freedom and to invite all to loving fellowship with God and fellow human beings.
Can Religious Persecution Ever Be Justified? Adventist expert shares lessons from the life and thought of Augustine.
Religious freedom can be defined as the right to profess, practice, and propagate one’s beliefs without coercion, intimidation, or manipulation. Freedom of religion or belief includes the right to wear symbols, and to display them in the public space.
Religious liberty includes the human right to have or adopt the religion of one’s choice, to change religious belief according to conscience, to manifest one’s religion individually or in community with fellow believers, in worship, observance, practice, witness, and teaching, subject to respect for the equivalent rights of others.
The principle behind religious freedom, or separation of church and state, is to try, as much as possible, to keep these two realms separate, or else you wind up with the government using force to compel things that should be done only out of love.