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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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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Arbeitskreis Religionsfreiheit

28.06.2022

Deutschland: Vom HMK Missionstag aus Bremen

Wenn die abendländische Tradition zerbröselt … Pastor Nestvogel beim HMK-Missionstag: Als Christen mutig aufstehen!

28.06.2022

Türkei: Bistum Münster spendet Glocke für türkische Kirche

Sie steht auf dem Hochplateau Tur-Abdin im Südosten des Landes

28.06.2022

Deutschland: „Spaghettimonster-Kirche“ scheitert beim Bundesverfassungsgericht

Der Satire-Verein will beim Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte klagen

28.06.2022

Iran: Zwei verurteilte Christinnen traten ihre Gefängnisstrafen an

IGFM: Keine christlichen Konvertiten in den Iran abschieben

28.06.2022

Deutschland: Vom Jahresfest der Karmelmission

Das Jahresfest des Missionswerks konnte nach drei Jahren wieder stattfinden. Muslime sind offen für das Evangelium

27.06.2022

Sudan: Christenverfolgung nimmt wieder zu

Open Doors: Fortschritte bei der Glaubensfreiheit drohen verloren zu gehen

Institute of Islamic Studies

30.06.2022

Türkei: Journalistin kritisiert fortdauernde Christenverfolgung

(Institut für Islamfragen, dk, 14.06.2022) Der türkische Journalist und Politikwissenschaftler Uzay Bulut thematisierte am 14. Juni 2022 auf der Website der Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) die erneute Bedrängung und Verfolgung von Christen in de

29.06.2022

Iran: Bericht des UN-Generalsekretärs zu Todesstrafe in Iran

(Institut für Islamfragen, dk, 23.06.2022) „World Israel News“ berichtete am 22. Juni 2022 über die vermehrte Vollstreckung von Todesurteilen in Iran. The post Iran: Bericht des UN-Generalsekretärs zu Todesstrafe in Iran first appeared on Institut für Is

28.06.2022

Deutschland: Kunstwerk einer indonesischen Künstlergruppe als antisemitisch kritisiert

(Institut für Islamfragen, dk, 23.06.2022) „United with Israel News“ berichtete am 21. Juni 2022 über die Kontroverse bezüglich eines Werks der Künstlergruppe Taring Padi aus Indonesien, dem bevölkerungsreichsten islamisch geprägten Land, bei der Document

Bonner Querschnitte
Bonn Profiles

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Drei Klassiker von Thomas Schirrmacher neu aufgelegt: Marxismus, Weltmission, Internetpornografie

Bonner Querschnitte 25/2022 Ausgabe 729

Thomas Schirrmacher besucht das Grab von Elisabeth Schiemann (1881–1972), Professorin für Genetik, die sich gegen den Nationalsozialismus aussprach und eine „Gerechte unter den Völkern“ war

Bonner Querschnitte 25/2022 Ausgabe 729 (eng)

Thomas Schirrmacher visits the grave of Elisabeth Schiemann (1881–1972), professor of genetics, who spoke out against National Socialism and was a “Righteous Among the Nations”

Bonner Querschnitte 22/2022 Ausgabe 726 (eng)

WEA and IJCIC hold historic first meeting in Jerusalem on jewish-evangelical relations

Bonner Querschnitte 22/2022 Ausgabe 726

Die WEA und das IJCIC halten in Jerusalem eine historische erste Tagung über jüdisch-evangelikale Beziehungen ab

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„Der Traum, der nicht sterben wollte“

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