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From sub-Saharan Africa to China, Christians experience ‘high’ levels of persecution

In the latest annual survey of countries around the world to monitor how difficult it is to live as a Christian, the overall trend in the World Watch List (WWL) 2020 is that 73 – as in WWL 2019 – showed extreme, very high or high levels of persecution.

15.01.2020
World Watch Monitor
Central African Republic
South Africa
Christians (victims)
Muslims (offenders)

Escalating Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Law enforcement authorities across Russia have dramatically escalated the nationwide persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the past 12 months, Human Rights Watch said today.

14.01.2020
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Russia
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

Taking stock of EU human rights and democracy action: Annual report for 2018

The 2018 annual report on human rights and democracy in the world has just been published. It is a comprehensive exercise that takes stock of all European Union (EU) actions in the human rights and democracy field. The report provides the European Parliament with an opportunity to recommend future EU action, considering current challenges, in its yearly resolution adopted in response to the EU report. The report for 2018 underlines that the EU should continue to play a leading role in tackling global democracy and human rights challenges, a view shared by the Parliament.

13.01.2020
Human Rights Without Frontiers
All countries

Four people hospitalized after anti-Semitic mob attack near Jewish holy site

Jews in Uman, place of final rest for Rabbi Nachman, setting up self-defense group after pogrom-style attack.

13.01.2020
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Ukraine
Jews (victims)

Situation of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jehovah’s Witnesses in Turkmenistan are not able to worship freely. Since September 2018, there has been an increase in government interference with the Witnesses’ religious activity.

9.01.2020
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Turkmenistan
Christian marginal groups (victims)

Abuse of pre-trial detention and terrorism charges by Spain to be denounced at the UN

Spain has again been accused by several civil society actors of abusing pre-trial detention and applying detention conditions reserved for terrorists to people who have not been convicted of terrorism charges. Fair Trials, Human Rights Without Frontiers and a practising lawyer have filed submissions relating to the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Spain’s human rights record which will take place in Geneva on 22 January 2020 – writes Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers

8.01.2020
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Spain

Armed Islamist atrocities surge

On May 12, 2019, about 30 armed Islamists carried out an attack on the Catholic Church in Dablo, Centre-Nord region. Six witnesses described the attack, which left six men dead including Father Simeon Yampa.

6.01.2020
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Burkina Faso
Christians (victims)
Muslims (offenders)

29 Catholic missionaries killed in 2019

According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, in 2019 29 missionaries were killed throughout the world, mostly priests: 18 priests, 1 permanent deacon, 2 religious men, 2 nuns, 6 lay people.

1.01.2020
Human Rights Without Frontiers
All countries
Christians (victims)

Tajik pastor freed after 3 years in prison for ‘singing extremist songs in church’

A Protestant pastor sentenced to three years in prison for “singing extremist songs in church and so inciting religious hatred” has been freed three months early (he was due to be freed in March 2020).

19.12.2019
World Watch Monitor
Tajikistan
Christians (victims)

India: Supreme Court orders seven Kandhamal Christians freed on bail after 9 years in prison

Eleven years ago today, 13 December 2008, an Indian man was arrested. Initially, he suspected it would be quickly resolved – he was active in local politics and assumed it was for something minor connected to that. But it was to be over ten years before he would get his freedom, May 2019 in fact.

18.12.2019
World Watch Monitor
India
Christians (victims)

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07.04.2020

Kuba: Christin Ayda Expósito freigelassen

Ihr Ehemann Pastor Ramón Rigal ist nach wie vor inhaftiert

07.04.2020

Deutschland: Iranischer Christ darf bleiben

Bayreuther Regionalbischöfin Greiner ist „erleichtert“

07.04.2020

Syrien: Blick auf Ostern

Franziskanerpater lancieren mit Blick auf Ostern Spendenaufruf für Christen und Muslime in den von Rebellen kontrollierten Gebieten

06.04.2020

Kenia: Schließung zahlreicher Schulen droht

2.300 christliche Lehrer wegen Anschlägen weggezogen

06.04.2020

Deutschland: Kirchentür beschmiert, Auto zerkratzt, Gottesdienst gestört

Hassattacken gegen Pastor Olaf Latzel und seine Gemeinde in Bremen

06.04.2020

Indien: Christen durch Corona-Verordnung benachteiligt

Kannst du dir vorstellen, wie es wäre, wenn du in der aktuellen Corona-Krisensituation im Dorfladen nichts kaufen dürftest, nur weil du Jesus nachfolgst? Das ist leider zur Zeit der Fall bei vielen Christen in abgelegenen Bergregionen in Indien.

Institute of Islamic Studies

06.04.2020

Kanada: Arabisch-sprachige Zeitung propagiert antisemitische Stereotypen und Lügen über Juden

(Institut für Islamfragen, dk, 06.03.2020) Das Internet-Portal „United with Israel“ veröffentlichte am 5. März 2020 einen Bericht über einen Artikel von Dr. Mustafa al-Lidawi in der kanadischen, Arabisch-sprachigen Zeitung al-Meshwar vom 28. Februar 2020

04.04.2020

Türkei: Christen besorgt wegen Angriffen auf christliche Friedhöfe

(Institut für Islamfragen, dk, 16.03.2020) AINA Weekly News Digest vom 16. März 2020 veröffentlichte einen Bericht des türkischen Journalisten Uzay Bulut über die Angriffe auf christliche Friedhöfe in der Türkei. Der Beitrag Türkei: Christen besorgt wege

03.04.2020

Libanon: Zahlreiche Verschwörungstheorien zum Corona-Virus

(Institut für Islamfragen, dk, 25.03.2020) Am 22. März 2020 stellte Magida al-Hajj in der libanesischen Tageszeitung Ath-Thabat viele verschwörungstheoretische Fragen im Blick auf das Coronavirus: Der Beitrag Libanon: Zahlreiche Verschwörungstheorien zum

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missiotop has a new chairman

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Schirrmacher publishes his speech upon the granting of the Vordenker Award to Professor Bassam Tibi

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