PAKISTAN: Islamic studies no longer compulsory for Pakistan’s non-Muslims
PAKISTAN: Islamic studies no longer compulsory for Pakistan’s non-Muslims By Kamran Chaudhry UCA News (24.01.2024) – The Pakistani government has decided that the study of Islam is no longer...
View ArticleEU gender equality reaches new milestone: is progress accelerating?
EIGE (01.01.2024) – Ten years ago, EIGE introduced the Gender Equality Index as a marker for the status quo of gender equality in the EU. Each edition came with more or less the same conclusion:...
View ArticleEU/ FRANCE: New boss of RENEW at odds with Macron on gender-violence
New boss of RENEW at odds with Macron on gender-violence By Paula Soler EU Observer (25.01.2024) – The new head of the liberal Renew Europe group, French MEP Valérie Hayer, has distanced herself from...
View ArticleIRAQ: Chaldean Church head urges government to ensure justice for Christians
IRAQ: Chaldean Catholic Church head urges Iraqi government to ensure justice for Christians Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako reminds authorities that when Muslims arrived in the mid-7th Century, local...
View ArticleIRAQ: Beware of Rayan al-Kildani and the ‘Christian’ Babylon Brigade
IRAQ: Beware of Rayan al-Kildani and the ‘Christian’ Babylon Brigade Rayan al-Kildani is under sanctions of the United States for grave violations of human rights and corruption. Human Rights Without...
View ArticleNORTH KOREA: Rare footage shows teens sentenced to hard labour over K-drama
Rare footage obtained by BBC Korea shows North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-dramas. By Sangmi Han, BBC Korean, Seoul BBC (18.01.2024) – The...
View ArticleRUSSIA: Russian Orthodox Church Conference “The war on Ukraine is a Sacred War”
Metropolitan Kirill of Stavropol at the opening of the conference “Sacred War: Transformation of Russia” RUSSIA: Russian Orthodox Church Conference “The war on Ukraine is a Sacred War” The Russian...
View ArticleRUSSIA: EU sanctions against an Orthodox military training company
RUSSIA: EU sanctions against a military training company created by a high-level Orthodox cleric An EU’s pinprick in the Russian military-Orthodox complex. Patriarch Kirill and the whole Russian...
View ArticleIRAN: Monthly Digest – Religious persecution and issues in January
IRAN: Monthly Digest – Religious persecution and issues in January Christians Arrested Christian convert held incommunicado in unknown location, parents ‘very worried’ Article 18 (22.01.2024) – A...
View ArticleNEPAL: Pastor must begin prison term for praying and evangelizing
NEPAL: Pastor must begin prison term for praying and evangelizing Nepali Pastor Keshab Acharya faces a year of jail time for prayer and evangelism after a court refused to hear his appeal challenging...
View ArticleTURKEY: A Catholic Church attacked during the mass in Istanbul: one dead
TURKEY: A Catholic Church attacked during the mass in Istanbul: one dead HRWF (30.01.2024) – On 28 January, during a Sunday Mass, two masked assailants attacked the Santa Maria Catholic Church in the...
View ArticleRUSSIA: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest Jan. 16-31
Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest January 16-31 31.01.2024 – Another trial of Muslims meeting to study Nursi’s works Forum 18 – Seven months after a Moscow court handed prison terms...
View ArticleCHINA: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly digest Jan. 16-31
Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly digest January 16-31 General 30.01.2024 – China, New White paper hails “deprogramming” of “religious extremists” Bitter Winter – Last week, China’s human...
View ArticleUK: Britain, Equality and the EU: a ‘Progress’ Report
By Cecilia Jastrzembska HRWF (30.01.2024) – On 26 January, the Young European Movement UK and European Parliamentary Liaison Office organized in London a roundtable discussion on the state of gender...
View ArticleEU/MOLDOVA: Does Moldova unduly repress media freedom? (I)
The founder and head of a media outlet under EU sanctions and Moldovan sanctions for pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation creates “Stop Media Ban” and campaigns against Moldova in the European...
View ArticleARGENTINA: A court chastises PROTEX for fabricating victims of a church
Judge Roberto Manuel López Arango, who presided the court and drafted the decision. From Facebook. ARGENTINA: A court chastises PROTEX for fabricating victims of a church The defendants were absolved...
View ArticleVIETNAM: Christian jailed for holding prayer meeting in his home
VIETNAM: Christian jailed for holding prayer meeting in his home CSW (01.02.2024) – A Vietnamese Montagnard Christian was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison on charges of ‘succession and...
View ArticleEU-MOLDOVA: Does Moldova repress media freedom or sanction abusive...
See Part I HERE By Dr Evgeniia Gidulianova with Willy Fautré The European Times (07.02.2024) – At the end of February 2022, after Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, the Moldovan...
View ArticleEUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Resolution on attacks against Christians in Nigeria
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT-NIGERIA: Resolution on attacks against Christians in Nigeria COMECE (09.02.2024) – COMECE welcomes the resolution of the European Parliament adopted on Thursday, 8 February 2024,...
View ArticleINDIA: Stop unjust targeted demolition of Muslim properties
INDIA: Authorities must immediately stop unjust targeted demolition of Muslim properties JCB brand machinery weaponized as a tool in hate campaign against minorities in India Amnesty International...
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