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About the appointment of the new EU Special Envoy on freedom of religion or belief

What Christos Stylianides should know as he takes the post of the Special Envoy on religion or belief outside European Union?

16.05.2021
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab & Human Rights Without Frontiers
European Union
Muslims (offenders)
Muslims (victims)
Christians (victims)

LEBANON: Underage marriages increase in Lebanon during pandemic

Child protection campaigners say closed schools and rising poverty, along with the lack of a legal minimum age, are pushing more girls under 18 into marriage

15.05.2021
Cathrin Schaer & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Lebanon
Muslims (offenders)

Boko Haram ‘flies flag 2 hours from Abuja’ warned Governor, as Nigerian captive teen turns 18

Today (14 May), Leah Sharibu is 18 years old; it’s her fourth birthday as the captive of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).

14.05.2021
World Watch Monitor
Nigeria
Muslims (offenders)

Christian pastor in Laos will avoid jail if he promises not to preach for a year

A Christian pastor, held in police detention in the Southeast Asian country of Laos for a year, has been spared jail after he was made to sign documents swearing not to preach until 2022.

14.05.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Laos
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christians (victims)

China detaining and sentencing Uyghur Imams en masse, UHRP reveals

The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), in partnership with Justice for All, has released a new report detailing the mass detention of Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim imams in East Turkistan, and attempts by the Chinese government to cut off the transmission of religious knowledge across generations.

13.05.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
China
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Muslims (victims)

Since 2014 Beijing has imprisoned at least 630 imams in Xinjiang

According to the Uyghur Human Rights Project, 18 Muslim clerics have died in prison or immediately after their release. Many have not been heard from for some time. Little official documentation exists about people sent to concentration camps. Uyghurs and members of other Muslim groups have been imprisoned just for praying.

13.05.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
China
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Muslims (victims)

About the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam

No less than 36 believers of all faiths are currently behind bars in Vietnam because of their religious activities.

11.05.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers & Willy Fautré
Vietnam
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Buddhists (victims)

16 Jehovah’s Witnesses released from prison in Turkmenistan during Ramadan

“These young men are excited to return home and once again help support their families and local communities,” said a spokesman for the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

11.05.2021
Adelle M. Banks & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Turkmenistan
Muslims (offenders)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

The collision of religion and the Vietnamese State

The Separation of Church and State is a concept that has been accepted and promulgated by several democratic countries in the modern era. While the seeds of this idea were planted during the late Middle Ages and the Reformation, it was only during the early years of the establishment of the United States of America that this idea started to blossom.

10.05.2021
Aerolyne Reed & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Vietnam
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christians (victims)
Buddhists (victims)

“At least” 78 priests “massacred” in one zone of Tigray, leaked letter claims

The document, obtained exclusively by the Telegraph, claims a number of mass killings have taken place over the last five months

10.05.2021
Lucy Kassa & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Ethiopia
Christians (victims)

In India’s Gujarat state, new anti-conversion law threatens Christians, Muslims

CATHOLIC CHURCH LEADERS IN INDIA have opposed an anti-conversion law passed by Gujarat state, saying it goes against the Indian Constitution which allows citizens to profess, practice and propagate a religion of their choice. Opponents want the western Indian state government to abrogate the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act 2021, which was passed on April 1.

10.05.2021
Jose Kavi, Human Rights Without Frontiers & Saji Thomas
India
Christians (victims)
Muslims (victims)
Hinduists (offenders)

Do not forget victims of blasphemy laws who are behind bars

The European Parliament has voted a resolution against blasphemy laws and for the release of a Christian couple on the death row for seven years in Pakistan.

10.05.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Pakistan
Muslims (offenders)
Muslims (victims)
Christians (victims)

About Päivi Räsänen case in Finland and Ghent criminal court decision against Jehovah's Witnesses in Belgium

In the last few years, we have seen attempts by private and public actors in Europe to interfere in the internal life of religious communities and sometimes to criminalize some long-standing practices in the name of some human rights.

9.05.2021
Willy Fautré & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Finland
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christians (victims)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

Islamic religious education in Europe: an increasing matter of concern

Against the backdrop of labor migration, family reunification, and the ongoing refugee crisis, the number of Muslims in Europe has increased over the past decades. This has resulted in a growing number of Muslim schools and Muslim students enrolled in Islamic Religious Education in state schools.

8.05.2021
Leni Franken & Human Rights Without Frontiers
European Union
Muslims (offenders)

SOVA Center annual report on freedom of religion: Restrictions and Challenges in 2020

his short version of the report was published in Talk About: Law and Religion (https://talkabout.iclrs.org/2021/05/03/forb_in_russia/), Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies. See full version at https://bit.ly/2Sy8fbF

8.05.2021
Olga Sibireva & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Russia
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Muslims (victims)
Christians (victims)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

Greek Court recognises Atheism as ground for asylum

Ali (not his real name), was born to a Sunni Muslim family in Pakistan. He grew up a practicing Muslim but, in 2015, horrified and repulsed by the Taliban’s atrocities against innocents, he left Islam and identified as an atheist.

7.05.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Greece
Pakistan
Muslims (offenders)
Secularists/Atheists (victims)

Dr. Dennis Petri Appointed as International Director of IIRF

The International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Dennis Petri as its new International Director. A political scientist, international consultant and researcher, Petri founded and serves as scholar-at-large of the Observatory of Religious Freedom in Latin America (OLIRE) and brings a wealth of experience in Latin American and global religious freedom research and advocacy.

5.05.2021
World Evangelical Alliance & IIRF

Päivi Räsänen: “I am ready to defend freedom of speech and of religion”

The Finnish Member of Parliament: “It did not even come to mind that my tweet or my opinions based on Christianity could be defamatory or insulting in any aspect”. “I will not step back from my conviction nor from my writings. I do not apologize for the writings of the Apostle Paul either”.

5.05.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Finland
Christians (victims)
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)

Church of Almighty God refugees: why they should be granted asylum

A monumental study of 271 decisions rendered in administrative and court cases show that more applications are being accepted—but not everywhere.

5.05.2021
Alessandro Amicarelli & Human Rights Without Frontiers
China
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christians (victims)

Päivi Räsänen case in Finland leads to heated freedom of speech debate both in media and churches

“Teachings based on the Bible must be free to discuss in public”, says the Finnish Evangelical Alliance.

5.05.2021
Joel Forster & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Finland
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christians (victims)

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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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