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Taliban-linked threat in Pakistan: churches increase security

Churches across Pakistan have stepped up security in response to the threat of terrorist attacks following the Taliban’s return to power in neighboring Afghanistan.

3.09.2021
John Pontifex & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Pakistan
Muslims (offenders)
Christians (victims)

Why did Uganda suspend 54 faith-based and aid groups backed by the West?

The government of Uganda has suspended 54 religious and humanitarian organizations working in the Christian-majority country in a clampdown widely seen as politically motivated.

3.09.2021
Uganda
Christians (victims)

Elected Mufti of Rodopi Ibrahim Şerif to stand trial on charges of ‘usurpation of office’

ABTTF President: “The fact that the mufti elected by our community is brought before the court on charges of usurpation of office is actually a means of the policy of fear and intimidation against our community, we all know that”.

3.09.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Greece
Muslims (victims)

Afghanistan my love

An elderly Italian religious who spent more than 18 years as the only Catholic priest in Afghanistan mourns for the country he came to love

1.09.2021
Loup Besmond de Senneville & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Afghanistan

EU can do more to promote religious freedom

Reading policy analyses and seeing terms like “religious persecution” and “religious extremism/fundamentalism” proliferate, you might be forgiven for dividing people of faith between victimised minorities and radicalised aggressors.

31.08.2021
Sharon Rosen & Human Rights Without Frontiers
European Union

Macron visits churches and mosques

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday visited Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, which suffered widespread destruction during the war to defeat the Islamic State group in 2017.

30.08.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Iraq
Muslims (offenders)
Muslims (victims)
Christians (victims)

Muslim cleric arrested on blasphemy charges for insulting Christianity

Police in the Muslim-majority country of Indonesia arrested a Muslim cleric for allegedly blaspheming against Christianity by calling the Bible fictitious and false in one of his sermons.

30.08.2021
Anugrah Kumar & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Indonesia
Muslims (victims)
Christians (victims)

About 400 individuals still detained for their faith, according to USCIRF

Despite several collective releases in 2020 and 2021, about 400 Eritreans are still behind bars, according to the latest report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

27.08.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers & Willy Fautré
Eritrea
Christians (victims)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

Russia moves to prohibit Ukrainian Orthodox church services in occupied Crimea

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has fined the Head of the St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki Men’s Monastery for holding a church service on the private land on which the monastery stands. Russia, which is internationally condemned for its illegal occupation of Ukrainian Crimea, claimed that such worship constituted ‘unlawful missionary activities’.

25.08.2021
Halya Coynash & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Russia
Christians (victims)
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)

Another Christian woman accused of blasphemy for forwarding a text

A Christian woman, Shagufta Kiran from Islamabad, Pakistan has been accused of blasphemy for simply forwarding a message.

23.08.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Pakistan
Muslims (offenders)
Christians (victims)

The anti-cult ideology and FECRIS: Dangers for religious freedom

Six scholars look at the European anti-cult federation, and conclude it is seriously dangerous for religious liberty

23.08.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
European Union
Bahais (victims)
Buddhists (victims)
Hinduists (victims)
Muslims (victims)
Christians (victims)
Jews (victims)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

USCIRF releases new report on religious freedom in North Korea

On August 18, in the framework of an online event, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its new report on religious freedom in North Korea.

19.08.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers & Dr. Zsuzsa-Anna Ferenczy
North Korea
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christians (victims)

The Czech judiciary questioned by the European Commission (Part I)

Two Czech yoga teachers condemned to a prison term apply for asylum in their host country (Philippines) for alleged biased proceedings in Czechia

19.08.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Czechia
Philippines
Buddhists (victims)
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)

Are women's rights and religion inherently at odds with each other?

This report by HRWF addresses early, forced and child marriages, female genital mutilation, violence against women, ‘honour’ killing, public dress codes, and reproductive rights. Through these various violations of women’s rights, the report explores the ways in which religious texts, practices, cultural influences, and patriarchal systems influence or motivate the infringement of these rights; and to discover and highlight the powerful potential that religion and religious leaders have to help guarantee women’s rights around the world.

18.08.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Afghanistan
Muslims (offenders)
Muslims (victims)
Christians (victims)
Jews (victims)

Seventh-day Adventist clergy get heavy jail sentences in Guizhou

Officially, Adventist congregations in China are part of the Three-Self Church. Those who kept their distinctiveness are now persecuted.

18.08.2021
Wu Guoxuan & Human Rights Without Frontiers
China
Christians (victims)
Christian marginal groups (victims)
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)

The Catholic Commission of Justice and Peace and Blasphemy Laws

Aug. 22 is the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief—the case of Pakistan

18.08.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Pakistan
Muslims (offenders)
Christians (victims)

An Afghan woman in Kabul: ‘Now I have to burn everything I achieved’

A university student tells of seeing all around her the ‘fearful faces of women and ugly faces of men who hate women’

18.08.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Afghanistan
Muslims (offenders)
Muslims (victims)
Christians (victims)
Jews (victims)

More than ten criminal cases of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Security forces arrest leader of yalta jehovists

17.08.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers & Alexander Dremligin
Russia
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

WEA Expresses Concern over Afghanistan

WEA Calls for Prayer for Most Vulnerable Including Religious Minorities and Women

16.08.2021
World Evangelical Alliance & IIRF
Afghanistan
Muslims (offenders)
Muslims (victims)
Christians (victims)

IPHR regrets designation as “undesirable organization” in Russia

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) today learned that it has been declared to be an “undesirable organization” on the territory of the Russian Federation by the Prosecutor General’s Office and that the Office instructed the Ministry of Justice to include IPHR in the list of undesirable foreign and international organizations.

14.08.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Russia
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)

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21.01.2022

Mosambik: Terrorist bekennt sich zum globalen Dschihad

Aussage bestätigt, dass es nicht in erster Linie um wirtschaftliche Ziele geht, sondern um religiöse

21.01.2022

Iran: Pastor nach Freilassung wieder inhaftiert

Matthias Haghnejad soll für sechs Jahre hinter Gitter

21.01.2022

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Herne: Polizei vermutet ein politisches Motiv

21.01.2022

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Christliche Minderheit unter Rohingya immer wieder Ziel von Angriffen

21.01.2022

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Libanon: Psychiatrischem Krankenhaus in Beirut droht Schließung

Schwester Jeanette: "Viele Patienten haben keine Familie, die meisten würden auf der Straße landen."

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21.01.2022

Türkei: Russisches Eingreifen in Kasachstan bedroht türkischen Einfluss in Zentralasien

(Institut für Islamfragen, dk, 08.01.2022) Die sich im katarischen Besitz befindende und in London erscheinende Tageszeitung „Al-Quds al-Arabi“ veröffentlichte am 7. Januar 2022 einen Bericht ihres Korrespondenten in Istanbul über die Situation in Kasachs

20.01.2022

Syrien: 2022 Diskussion über Wiederaufnahme Syriens in die Arabische Liga

(Institut für Islamfragen, dk, 06.01.2022) Die sich in katarischen Händen befindende und in London erscheinende Tageszeitung „Al-Quds al-Arabi“ berichtete am 4. Januar 2022 über die mögliche Wiederaufnahme Syriens in die Arabische Liga. Der Beitrag Syrie

19.01.2022

Deutschland: Studie an Berliner Schulen untersucht den Einfluss strenggläubiger muslimischer Schüler

(Institut für Islamfragen, dk, 06.01.2022) Die FAZ berichtete am 4. Januar 2022 über religiöse Konflikte an Berliner Schulen. Eine Studie des Vereins für Demokratie und Vielfalt (Devi) zeige, dass strenggläubige Muslime an immer mehr Berliner Schulen die

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Dialog mit muslimischen Führern verbessert die Lage der Christen

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WEA Secretary General Visits Seychelles, Meets with Country’s President and Leadership of National Evangelical Alliance

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WEA-Generalsekretär besucht die Seychellen und trifft sich mit dem Präsidenten des Landes sowie der Leitung der Nationalen Evangelischen Allianz

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Generalsekretär der Weltweiten Evangelischen Allianz fordert Rangliste für Religionsfreiheit

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Ein neues Buch über theologische Ausbildung durch Weiterbildung (TEE) beweist die Effektivität und Anpassungsfähigkeit des Modells an die Ausbildungsbedürfnisse der heutigen globalen Kirche

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New Book on Theological Education by Extension (TEE) Proves the Model’s Effectiveness and Adaptability to Meet the Training Needs of Today’s Global Church

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