My office has prepared an update on the state of freedom of religion or belief in Vietnam. Please find a link to the report below. Thank you for your engagement with issues of religious freedom. David Anderson, MP Click here to view the PDF version Read More

By Anna Fifield | Washington Post BEIJING — The services at the Zion Church were different from usual on Sunday. A lot different. Instead of having 1,300 or so congregants pack into their usual space in northern Beijing, the members of the church walked the streets in small groups, listening ... Read More

By World Watch Monitor Attacks by members of the Islamic State group against Egypt’s Coptic Christian community “were among the deadliest acts of religious persecution” last year, according a new report presented in Washington DC yesterday, 13 September. “Fifty-three per cent of ISIS ... Read More

By World Watch Monitor Coptic Christians in various parts of Egypt have been left with no choice but to hold funeral services in the streets because of the closure of their churches. Coptic news site Watani reported on a street funeral last week in the village of Dimshau Hashim, in Minya ... Read More

By Asia News Kuala Lumpur (AsiaNews) – The deterioration of religious freedom in Malaysia worries not only the country’s Christians and other minorities, but also Muslims who make up about 62 per cent of the its population, this according to a study published by Églises d’Asie. ... Read More

By Daniel Ten Kate and Sophie Kamaruddin | Bloomberg Anwar Ibrahim, who’s in line to become Malaysia’s next premier, blasted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s treatment of the Rohingya and called for formal talks on China’s crackdown against its Muslim minority. “I was appalled by the ... Read More

By Edward Wong | New York Times WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering sanctions against Chinese senior officials and companies to punish Beijing’s detention of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uighurs and other minority Muslims in large internment camps, according to current ... Read More

By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid | The Diplomat On Friday, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government asked economist Atif R. Mian to step down from the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) owing to a backlash over his Ahmadiyya faith. The objection was raised by radical Islamist groups like the ... Read More

By Shohret Hoshur | Radio Free Asia Uyghurs in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region say that authorities are continuing a campaign to destroy mosques as part of a wider crackdown on their religion, contradicting a recent comment by a Chinese diplomat that the region has more ... Read More

By World Watch Monitor Nicaragua’s president has ordered a UN Commission to leave the country on 1 September, after it criticised the government for human rights abuses committed during its clampdown on anti-government protestors. In its report, the UN Commission for Human Rights “called on ... Read More

By Sigal Samuel | The Atlantic Tahir Imin is the type of father who likes to take a video of his daughter each and every week. His phone is full of clips and photos of her: in a tutu, holding up a drawing, on a merry-go-round. Even at age six, she would ride piggyback on […] Read More

By Madeleine Davies | Church Times The closure of thousands of places of worship in Rwanda has been defended by the country’s Anglican Primate, Dr Laurent Mbanda, who said that “the picture being painted is different from what we see and know in the country.” About 8000 official and ... Read More

By Christian Solidarity Worldwide A crackdown on Protestant and Catholic churches by authorities in Henan continues to violate religious communities’ freedom of religion or belief across the province. In April 2018, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reported that authorities in Henan ... Read More

I would like to provide a link to the Hon. Rob Nicholson’s paper petition regarding Bill C-75 and the troubling Liberal proposal to make traditionally indictable offences eligible for summary conviction. Through C-75, many heinous crimes that were punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment ... Read More

My office has prepared an update on the state of freedom of religion or belief in Cuba. Please find a link to the report below. Thank you for your engagement with issues of religious freedom. David Anderson, MP Click here to view the PDF version Read More

By World Watch Monitor A Coptic diocese in Upper Egypt last week saw its eighth church closed following attacks by villagers protesting against the church building being legally recognised. Across Egypt, there are thousands of churches informally acknowledged as ‘churches’. Exactly two ... Read More

By Radio Free Europe Iranian courts have sentenced more than 200 members of a Sufi order to prison terms and other punishments over the past four months in one of the largest crackdowns against a religious minority in Iran in a decade, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. In a statement on August 29, ... Read More

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has launched an online survey to better understand Canadians’ experiences with large telecommunications service providers. This survey is part of the CRTC’s consultation which will result in a report to the government on ... Read More

Keith Loveard | UCA News Indonesian President Joko Widodo, in his annual national address to the nation before Independence Day, urged the country to embrace its founding spirit of tolerance. Those who had fought for independence had not been able to triumph without throwing off differences of ... Read More

By Pakistan Today FAISALABAD: At least 30 people, including six belonging to Ahmadiyya community, were injured and Ahmedis’ place of worship was set on fire after a petty dispute was blown out of proportion into a violent clash in Faisalabad’s Ghaseetpura area on the second day of Eid. ... Read More