Editing Freedom of religion (section)

==Promotion==
27 October is International Religious Freedom Day, in commemoration of the execution of the [[Boston martyrs]], a group of [[Quakers]] executed by the [[Puritans]] on [[Boston Common]] for their religious beliefs under the legislature of the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] between 1659 and 1661.<ref>{{cite book |author=Margery Post Abbott|title=Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WlTnzA6kHYwC|year=2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0810870888|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=WlTnzA6kHYwC&pg=PA102 102]}}</ref>{{verify source|date=October 2024}} On October 27, 1553, [[Michael Servetus]] was burned alive for heresy in [[Geneva]].<ref>{{Cite book | last = McGrath | first =Alister E. | author-link =Alister McGrath | title =A Life of John Calvin | publisher=[[Basil Blackwell]] | year =1990 | place = Oxford| isbn = 978-0-631-16398-5 |pages=118–120}}; {{Cite book | last = Cottret | first =Bernard |  trans-title =Calvin: A Biography | publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans | year =2000 | place = Grand Rapids, Michigan| isbn = 978-0-8028-3159-0|title=Calvin: Biographie|orig-year=1995|language=fr|others=Translated by M. Wallace McDonald |pages=222–225}};  {{Cite book | last = Parker | first =T. H. L. | title =John Calvin: A Biography | publisher=Lion Hudson plc | year =2006 | place = Oxford| isbn = 978-0-7459-5228-4|url=https://archive.org/details/johncalvinbiogra00park |pages=150–152}}</ref><ref>[http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/11/12/goldstone/index.html "Out of the Flames" by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone –Salon.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014215521/http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/11/12/goldstone/index.html |date=14 October 2007}}</ref> On October 27, 1998, President [[Bill Clinton]] signed the [[International Religious Freedom Act]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-signing-the-international-religious-freedom-act-1998 | title=Statement on Signing the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 &#124; the American Presidency Project }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://editorials.voa.gov/a/international-religious-freedom-day-105823038/1482120.html | title=International Religious Freedom Day | date=25 October 2010 }}</ref>

The [[International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance]] (IRFBA) is a network of countries promoting freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) worldwide.

There exists an [[International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief]].