The Crisis of Religious Freedom
(Bonn/ Cape Town, 1 March 2012) “Religion and Civil Society” is the theme of the latest issue of the International Journal for Religious Freedom, put online free of charge on 1 March. While “civil...
View ArticleTurkmenistan: Religious freedom survey, March 2012
Taken with kind permission from the Newsletter "Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief“ edited by Willy Fautré on behalf of Human Rights Without Frontiers Int'l - www.hrwf.net...
View ArticleThe World’s Worst Religious Persecutors
Taken by permission from © National Review Online 2012, March 20, 2012 - www.nationalreview.com Today, the U.S. Commission on International Human Rights (Uscirf) released its 14th annual report, which...
View ArticleNational Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka condemns siege of mosque
We strongly condemn the blatant display of religious intolerance which occurred on Friday 20th April 2012, where the Mosque in the Dambulla town was laid siege to by a large mob, claiming that the...
View ArticleIndonesia: EU Dialogue Should Press for Progress on Rights
(New York, May 1, 2011) –The European Union should press Indonesia to act against growing religious intolerance and to release all political prisoners during the EU-Indonesia human rights dialogue on...
View ArticleWhy Terrorists are after Africa’s Christians
From Boko Haram in Sub-Saharan Africa to al-Shabaab in the Horn of Africa, Islamist terrorists across the continent have heightened attacks on Christians. This seems to be a part of an emerging...
View ArticleMACEDONIA: 17 Orthodox monks, nuns and believers arrested
At 7am on the 21 May 2012 Macedonian police forces with arrest warrants entered several monasteries and homes of the members of the Serbian Orthodox Church Ohrid Archbishopric in Macedonia. In Štip...
View ArticleChristian Groups Susceptible to Violence in India
The Evangelical Fellowship of India is deeply concerned at the uninterrupted and increasing hostility against the Christian minority community in the country. EFI recorded 79 instances of violence in...
View ArticleSecret service agent is new main witness for the prosecution of muderers in...
(International Institute for Religious Freedom, Istanbul, Bonn) After six successive days this year, the lawsuit against the murderers of three Christians in Malataya, Turkey in 2007, entered a new...
View ArticleThe International Institute for Religious Freedom has a new Chair
Between two side events on Pakistan and on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) announced Godfrey Yogarajah from Sri Lanka as the...
View ArticleReport by the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner...
The Special Rapporteur then focuses on the right of conversion as part of freedom of religion or belief. In this context, he distinguishes the following four subcategories: (a) the right to conversion,...
View ArticleNew 2012 Human Rights Violations Report by the Association of Protestant...
The Association of Protestant Churches works to ensure that all people everywhere are able to live out the freedom of religion and belief in light of the 18th paragraph of the United Nations Universal...
View ArticleReligious freedom in Viet Nam
The Report "religious freedom in Vietnam" submitted by WEA, AVC and IIRF to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) under the Universal Peridoc Review 18th session of the UPR Working Group. PDF-Download of...
View ArticleMacedonia: Archbishop Jovan Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison
On 2 July 2013, the First Municipal Court of Skopje, Macedonia, under the leadership of Judge Ivica Stefanovski, sentenced the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropoletan of...
View ArticleFirst mission to Sierra Leone by the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of...
Taken with kind permission from the Newsletter "Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief“ edited by Willy Fautré on behalf of Human Rights Without Frontiers Int'l - www.hrwf.net "I...
View ArticleGlobal Alliance Urges Action on North Korea Following UN Report
(Bonn / Cape Town / Colombo, 16.05.2014) Religious liberty organizations united under the Religious Liberty Partnership (RLP) released a statement on the crisis in North Korea calling for release of...
View ArticleObama Sifted Wheat from Chaff as He Called for Religious Freedom in India
U.S. President Barack Obama’s three days of diplomacy in India last week demonstrated not only Washington’s pursuit of strategic interests but also its proactive disassociation from Indian Prime...
View ArticleFreedom of Religion or Belief, Human Rights, and Responding to Persecution
As all the reliable reports show, only a small percentage of the world’s population enjoys real freedom of religion. Discrimination and persecution are commonplace, and even martyrdom is far too...
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