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CHINA: 900,000 Uyghur children, the saddest victims of genocide

The Chinese Communist Party has forcibly displaced them into Han Chinese families or state-run orphanages. Figures prove the program is expanding.

7.06.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers & Abdulhakim Idris
China
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Muslims (victims)

“To stop islamic terrorism, discriminate against Non-Muslim religious movements”

Laws are passed with the alleged aim of combating Islamic radicalism. They are then used against peaceful religionists labeled as “fundamentalists” or “cults.”

6.06.2021
Massimo Introvigne & Human Rights Without Frontiers
European Union
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Muslims (victims)
Christians (victims)

German police launch hunt for synagogue arsonist

A masked man was seen pouring liquid on the synagogue’s exterior wall, which was then set alight. The attack in the southern city of Ulm has been slammed as “vile.”

5.06.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Germany
Jews (victims)

16 Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to prison terms since 1 January and behind bars

Six more Jehovah’s Witnesses already sentenced to heavy prison terms in June

4.06.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Russia
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

Why an Award was given to China’s Ambassador in Vienna

Li Xiaosi, Chinese ambassador in Vienna since 2016, has no reason to complain about a current lack of attention. Last Wednesday, the mayor Michael Ludwig bestowed on him the Great Gold Award of the city of Vienna.

4.06.2021
Christian Ultsch, Human Rights Without Frontiers & Christoph Zotter
Austria
China

The Flemish draft Law on religious communities: A critical analysis

The proposed decree feeds into the growing distrust of religion and raises serious religious freedom concerns.

3.06.2021
Jelle Creemers & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Belgium
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christians (victims)
Jews (victims)
Muslims (victims)
Christian marginal groups (victims)
Bahais (victims)

Court acquits Christian couple on death row for 7 years of blasphemy charges

A Pakistani court acquitted a Christian couple of their blasphemy charges after being “left to die” on death row for nearly eight years over false allegations that they insulted the Islamic prophet Muhammad through text messages.

3.06.2021
Emily Wood & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Pakistan
Muslims (offenders)
Christians (victims)

Has the pandemic weakened religious liberty?

Dr Dennis Petri has just been appointed as the new head of the IIRF, a global network of academics dedicated to providing quality data and evidence on the subject at a time when millions of Christians continue to live under oppression and persecution because of their faith. He speaks to Christian Today about some of the areas of concern and what impact the pandemic has had on religious liberty.

3.06.2021
Christian Today & IIRF
All countries

Pakistani Christian couple acquitted of blasphemy after 7 years on death row

The Pakistani woman who replaced Christian Asia Bibi in her prison cell on death row, a mother of 4, Shaguftah Kausar, has – after a dozen delays since April 2020 due to COVID-19 – been acquitted from the death penalty by Lahore High court. Kausar, with her disabled husband Shafqat Emmanuel, was arrested for blasphemy in 2013 and sentenced to death in 2014. Despite both being illiterate, the Catholic couple, surnamed Masih*, were convicted of sending blasphemous texts – in English – to Islamic clerics.

3.06.2021
World Watch Monitor
Pakistan
Muslims (offenders)
Christians (victims)

Paris Commune, still alive and kicking: A Catholic procession was attacked

Last weekend, “anti-fascists” assaulted participants in an official Catholic event honoring the ten priests and the others killed by the Communards.

2.06.2021
Massimo Introvigne & Human Rights Without Frontiers
France
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christians (victims)

COVID-19 leads to prosecution of House-Church group: Organization’s registration suspended.

A house-church organization in Vietnam is facing government prosecution and community hate due to COVID-19, sources said.

2.06.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
China
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christians (victims)

Austria’s Muslim youth file lawsuit against ‘Islam map’

Muslim Youth Austria (MJO) is filing a lawsuit against the country’s controversial “Map of Political Islam,” the group announced on Saturday.

29.05.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Austria
Muslims (victims)

Vienna Award for Chinese ambassador sparks international criticism

Leading experts and human rights defenders condemn and ridicule the Award of Vienna’s highest honor to the Chinese ambassador

28.05.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Austria
China

Muslim Doctor forcefully converts 13-year-old Christian girl to work in kitchen

A Muslim doctor forcefully converted a 13-year-old Christian girl to Islam to allow her to work in their family kitchen.

27.05.2021
Nasir Saeed
Pakistan
Muslims (offenders)
Christians (victims)

“All the world envies us for the MIVILUDES”

The revamped anti-cult mission tries again to export its defamation of Jehovah’s Witnesses and other religious organizations internationally

26.05.2021
Massimo Introvigne
France
Christian marginal groups (victims)
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)

Historic church building returned to the EPA

Algerian Christians rejoice in the return of an appropriated church building in Mostaganem. They ask for continued prayer for the situation of the church in the country.

26.05.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Algeria
Muslims (offenders)
Christians (victims)

FECRIS sentenced for slanderous statements about Jehovah’s Witnesses

A German court has condemned FECRIS (European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Cults and Sect) for defaming the general movement of Jehovah’s Witnesses in public statements made in the framework of its conferences from 2009 to 2017 that were posted later on its website.

25.05.2021
Willy Fautré & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Germany
Christian marginal groups (victims)

FECRIS says the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia is propaganda

“All tales of alleged ‘harassment’ against Jehovah’s Witnesses [in Russia] are nothing more than a primitive propaganda stroke. This information is not true,” FECRIS says.

25.05.2021
Willy Fautré & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Russia
Christian marginal groups (victims)

Jehovah’s Witness Rustam Seidkuliev sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for talking about the Bible

On May 20, 2021 judge of Leninskiy District Court of Saratov Andrey Efimov found Rustam Seidkuliev guilty under part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in activity of extremist organization). The believer was taken into custody in the courtroom.

20.05.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Russia
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

Antisemitism in Germany: “As Muslims, we must tackle this”

In Germany, protests about the Israel-Gaza conflict involved antisemitic outbursts. Local Muslim communities have distanced themselves from these.

19.05.2021
Kersten Knipp & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Germany
Jews (victims)
Muslims (offenders)

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20.09.2021

Deutschland: Neue Arbeit zu Goethes Verhältnis zum Islam publiziert

(Institut für Islamfragen, dk, 17.09.2021) Qantara (Brücke), ein Projekt der Deutschen Welle, das zum Dialog mit der islamischen Welt beitragen will, berichtete am 17. September 2021 über Karl-Josef Kuschels Buch „Goethe und der Koran“. Der Beitrag Deuts

17.09.2021

Libanon: Über die Hälfte der Bevölkerung ist von internationaler Hilfe abhängig

(Institut für Islamfragen, dk, 10.09.2021) Die kuwaitische Tageszeitung Ar-Rai al-Aam berichtete am 31. August 2021 über die sehr schwierige und hochexplosive Situation im Libanon. Über die Hälfte der libanesischen Bevölkerung lebe unter der Armutsgrenze

15.09.2021

Libanon: Schiitische Hisbollah und Amal greifen Stadt der Christen im Süden des Libanon an

(Institut für Islamfragen, dk, 02.09.2021) Die Tageszeitung Al-Arab in London berichtete am 31. August 2021 über einen Angriff der schiitischen Hisbollah und der Bewegung Amal auf eine von Christen bewohnte Stadt im südlichen Libanon. Der Beitrag Libanon

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Neu ernannte Repräsentanten sollen das Engagement der WEA bei der WHO und den Vereinten Nationen in New York stärken

Bonner Querschnitte 21/2021 Ausgabe 692 (eng)

Newly Appointed Representatives to Strengthen WEA’s Engagement with WHO and United Nations in New York

Bonner Querschnitte 10/2021 Ausgabe 681

WEA und European Freedom Network gründen neues globales Netzwerk zur Verstärkung der Bemühungen im Kampf gegen den Menschenhandel

Bonner Querschnitte 16/2021 Ausgabe 687 (eng)

WEA Remembers World-Famous Evangelist Luis Palau (1934–2021)

Bonner Querschnitte 19/2021 Ausgabe 690

Anhörung des Menschenrechtsausschusses des Deutschen Bundestages zur Menschenrechtslage in der Türkei

Bonner Querschnitte 14/2021 Ausgabe 685 (eng)

A Tribute to C. René Padilla (1932–2021)

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