News

New report describes methods and names names of those repressing secret Christian believers—and other faiths.

Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced a septuagenarian Uyghur retiree who spent decades as a public servant to a lengthy jail term for attending a Muslim sermon during a wake held 13 years ago, according to local officials.

Attacks by Fulani militia on Christian villages, especially in the rural areas of Southern Kaduna, have killed more people in Kaduna state than the coronavirus itself.

Fiona has focused in Parliament on championing individual freedoms and human rights, both in this country and abroad, including the right of religious freedom or belief.

A bill for Iraq to formally recognise Christmas as a national holiday has unanimously passed parliament.

More than 300 students kidnapped in northwest Nigeria last week have been freed after being held captive for six days, according to government officials.

A Siberian member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses has been sentenced to six years for organizing activities of the religious group that Russia has labeled as extremist and banned in 2017.

The bans in Belgium on the slaughter of animals for meat without stunning do not violate EU principles on freedom of worship, the European Union’s highest court has ruled.

As outcry about Sri Lanka cremation policy grows, Maldives says it is considering request to bury Muslims who die of COVID-19.

Anxious family members converge at all-boys secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state that was attacked by gunmen.