SOUTH AFRICA -- The South African government has passed legislation aimed at outlawing discrimination, a move that some Christians fear has placed them on a collision course with the state. Any South African churchman who refuses to marry a same- sex couple, any pro-lifer who says publicly that abortion is wrong and any Christian who preaches exclusive salvation through Jesus Christ could be breaking the law in South Africa.

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Office of Religious Persecution Monitoring set up by the United States of America, for the monitoring of countries who persecute religious groups and thereby impose sanctions as deemed appropriate. This Office is set up under the bill H.R.1685(now H.R. 2431) entitled "Freedom From Religious Persecution Act of 1997". A document being distributed by Lock Stock & Barrel has inaccurately described this bill. You the reader may check this out for yourself.