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View ArticleMALAYSIA: A “heretic” sentenced to 6 months in prison and a fine
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View ArticleGEORGIA: The anti-EU role of the Georgian Orthodox Church in the...
GEORGIA: The anti-EU role of the Georgian Orthodox Church in the parliamentary election HRWF (28.10.2024) – Georgia’s ruling party won nearly 54% of the vote in Saturday’s parliamentary election, the...
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View ArticleTURKEY: Turkey’s Persecution of Protestant Christians
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View ArticleIRAQ: Christians and other minorities in the Kurdistan legislative elections
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View ArticleIRAN: Religious issues and persecution – Monthly Digest October
Religious issues and persecution – Monthly Digest October Christians US resettlement of Iranian Christian refugees increases, but concerns remain Article 18 (23.10.2024) – Over five times as many...
View ArticleCHINA: Religious issues and persecution – Bimonthly Digest October 16-31
Religious issues and persecution – Bimonthly Digest October 16-31 Buddhists 31.10.2024- Authorities confine young monks in ‘prison-like’ conditions in government-run schools RFA – Hundreds of young...
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View ArticleRUSSIA: 147 Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to heavy terms languish behind bars
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View ArticleITALY: Pope’s message for G7 forum in Pescara about the role of missionaries...
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View ArticleMALI: Jihadists demand crippling religious tax from Christians
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View ArticleGERMANY: Systemic mass-scale religious segregation condoned by the EU for 10...
GERMANY: Systemic mass-scale religious segregation condoned by the European Union for 10 years By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers The European Times (06.11.2024) – As of 5...
View ArticleEGYPT: Legalisation of a new batch of unlicensed churches and religious...
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View ArticleTAJIKISTAN: 15th EU-Tajikistan Human Rights Dialogue: HRWF recommendations on...
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View ArticleRUSSIA: A lawyer in pretrial detention for a post about the Russian army
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View ArticleUKRAINE: Russification of the children at any cost in the occupied territories
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