The latest issue of the International Journal for Religious Freedom 2/2, (December 2009), produced by the International Institute for Religious Freedom, is out and freely available online (can be downloaded as pdf) for a few weeks. Articles include:

• ‘Thinking twice about the minaret ban in Switzerland’, by Thomas K Johnson
• ‘Christian suffering and martyrdom: An opportunity for forgiveness and reconciliation’, by Richard Howell
• ‘The role of government and judicial action in defining religious freedom: A Sri Lankan perspective’, by Roshini Wickremesinhe
• ‘The religious other as a threat: Religious persecution expressing xenophobia – a global survey of Christian-Muslim convivience’, by Christof Sauer
• ‘Christianity and democracy’, by Thomas Schirrmacher
• ‘Agonizing for you: Christian responses to religious persecution’, by Charles L Tieszen