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English | Français Each year, over 400,000 people tour the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, including many of my constituents from Cypress Hills – Grasslands. However, since many people are ...
Read MoreBy (UK) All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief 71 of the world’s 195 countries have blasphemy laws. Penalties for violating blasphemy laws in these ...
Press Release by USCIRF USCIRF chairman describes the report as “an important resource on religious freedom conditions globally” WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Commission on International ...
By World Watch Monitor A Pentecostal church in Ethiopia has been ordered to stop meeting in a residential area, in the wake of a mob attack on the church, after which a church member was arrested ...
By Interfax Religion A pastor of the Korean Christian Church Sonmin Sunbogym was sentenced for three years of imprisonment on charges of extremism in northern Tajikistan. The sentence had been ...
By Saji Thomas | UCA News The eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has passed a law criminalizing religious conversions despite similar laws in six other states being used by hard-line Hindu groups ...
By Christian Solidarity Worldwide Between January and July 2017 Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) continued to receive multiple reports of violations of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in ...
By Andreas Harsono Donald Ignatius Suyanto, a chef living on the Hindu-majority island of Bali, on March 21, 2016 uploaded a video to YouTube in which he questioned the integrity of the Islamic ...
By Sune Engel Rasmussen and Julia Carrie Wong | The Guardian Taimoor Raza, a 30-year-old Shia Muslim from a “poor but literate” family, was sentenced to death in June by an anti-terrorist ...
By Felix Corley | Forum 18 One year on from the introduction of penalties in Russia for ill-defined “missionary activity” – which the Russian authorities also impose in Crimea, ...
By Barbara G. Baker | World Watch Monitor Six months after five Turkish men were convicted of the grisly murders of three Christians in southeast Turkey ten years ago, an appeals court has upheld ...
Nominations are now open for the Celebrate Canada 150 Medal! David Anderson, Member of Parliament for Cypress Hills-Grasslands is proud to celebrate Canada’s 150th Birthday by honouring ...
I would like to take the time to reiterate my concerns with Liberal Bill C-51 and provide Canadians with ways in which they can voice their concerns. For those who have not heard, Bill ...
By Al-Monitor A top UAE official on Wednesday accused Qatari broadcast giant Al-Jazeera of anti-Semitism, discrimination and inciting religious hate, in a rebuttal to UN accusations of attacking ...
By Rozanna Latiff | Reuters KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A Malaysian state amended its Islamic laws on Wednesday to allow public canings, sparking criticism that the change was unconstitutional ...
By BBC News India’s Supreme Court has suspended a law that would have banned the sale of cattle for slaughter nationwide. The government order aimed to “prevent uncontrolled and ...
By World Watch Monitor Four more Christians received lengthy jail sentences in Iran last week, it has emerged, taking the total number sentenced in the last month to 12. Yasser Mossayebzadeh, ...
By World Watch Monitor A third Mexican priest this year has been killed following a violent attack at his parish just outside Mexico City. Luis Lopez Villa, 71, was killed by intruders at his San ...
By Fayaz Bukhari | Religion News Service SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) — Six Hindu pilgrims, most of them women, were killed in a gunbattle that erupted in Indian Kashmir on Monday (July 10) after ...
By World Watch Monitor One Iranian and three Azerbaijani Christians have been found guilty of “missionary activities” and “actions against national security” in Iran and sentenced to 10 ...
By Patrick Poole | Assyrian International News Agency The Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has seized control of at least 50 Syriac churches, monasteries, and cemeteries in ...