Religious repression

Serving 12 years of multiple prison sentences in Iran for her public opposition to the Islamic Republic of Iran

China has implemented new repressive guidelines.

USCIRF notes a worsening scene internationally in its annual report

A 416-year-old chapel is at risk of being destroyed.

An appeal to French President Emmanuel Macron to cease France’s support of FECRIS.

The struggle between those who rant “They are not like us“ and those who simply want to be themselves?

A private school network has expelled Ahmadi schoolchildren because of their faith.

Salma al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in prison, followed by a 34-year travel ban.

As many as 100 minority Sikhs and Hindus who want to escape Afghanistan are unable to do so.

The denomination’s role in oppressing Indigenous American and Alaskan nations.

Religious minorities targeted on digital platforms face an ‘Orwellian existence’

State Department assessment classifies the Myanmar military’s treatment of the Rohingya as genocide and crimes against humanity.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and top European Union, British and Canadian officials urged to persist in locating nearly 3,000 Yazidi women and children missing since captured seven years ago

Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar, acquitted of blasphemy charges after spending seven years on death row in Pakistan, have been granted asylum in Europe.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and Christian and religious freedom advocacy groups call for the release of two pastors detained by authorities in Cuba July 11 for joining widespread antigovernment demonstrations in the Caribbean nation.

An Islamic scholar has urged the government of Nigeria to take “decisive action” against the activities of the terrorist group Boko Haram.

A July 17 report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) calls for the U.S. government to publicly censure Alexander Dvorkin for ongoing disinformation campaign against religious minorities.

A Syrian-Catholic monk kidnapped and held hostage for nearly five months by Islamic State militants believes he is still alive because of the humanitarian work he did among Muslims displaced during the war in Syria in the years before he was abducted.

Violent unrest has erupted across India over a contentious new citizenship law that offers immunity to undocumented immigrants from half a dozen religious faiths but excludes Muslims.

The release of Asia Bibi on May 8, 2019, has brought hope to the international religious community for greater tolerance of religious minorities in Pakistan.

A special report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom focuses on anti-conversion laws in South Asia.

Some 10,000 men and women belonging to indigenous faiths joined forces April 24 in the town of Gumla in Jharkhand to demand recognition of their traditional religions.