By Will Maule | CBN News Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has told reporters that embattled Christian mother Asia Bibi will finally be allowed to leave Pakistan. Bibi, who was convicted of blasphemy and spent a decade on death row, was acquitted by Pakistan’s Supreme Court last October but ... Read More

By Susan Korah | Convivium March 15 was a turning point in the history of the ancient Roman Empire and also of the modern nation of New Zealand. On that day in 44 B.C., known to ancient Romans as the Ides of March, Julius Caesar was assassinated on the steps of the Senate in Rome. […] Read More

By World Watch Monitor A 78 year-old priest has been admitted to hospital with second degree burns to his hands and feet after being beaten and tortured during a suspected robbery attempt on 11 April. A 78 year-old priest has been admitted to hospital with second degree burns to his hands and ... Read More

Well, it looks like Justin Trudeau’s crew may finally be forced to listen a little tiny bit to Canadians. Ralph Goodale has been in charge of bringing in new restrictions on firearms owners in Canada. He started with Bill C-71. Then, Bill Blair was told to come up with a scheme to ban ... Read More

By BBC News Dozens of men, women and children from Pakistan’s minority Hazara community have held a protest in the city of Quetta demanding better security. The sit-in started hours after 24 people were killed and dozens injured in a bomb blast at a vegetable market in the south-western ... Read More

By ChinaAid Authorities in the city of Shanghai seized more than 20 Christian business leaders, along with one American citizen, in the early morning of April 4th. According to ChinaAid, the arrests were directly tied to their faith and church activities. READ MORE… Read More

By Darren Byler | The Guardian In mid-2017, Alim, a Uighur man in his 20s, returned to China from studying abroad. As soon as he landed back in the country, he was pulled off the plane by police officers. He was told his trip abroad meant that he was now under suspicion of being “unsafe”. ... Read More

By UCA News Christian leaders and activists in India are pinning hopes on the Supreme Court to set aside guidelines made by a state court on individuals changing religion. India’s top court on April 5 postponed hearing a petition of Christian leaders that challenged the guidelines of ... Read More

It was an interesting week last week in Ottawa. Justin Trudeau turfed two of his former top cabinet ministers and, in response, he had 40 to 50 young women who had come to Ottawa to see Parliament in action turn their backs on him in the House of Commons. Then he sent several of his […] Read More

By Jonathan Manthorpe | Asia Times Containing and controlling religion has always been a vicious, violent and frequently deadly objective of the Chinese Communist Party. And that contest has become ever more emotionally charged in recent years as hundreds of millions of Chinese people seek the ... Read More

The following is the full text of a March 21, 2019 press conference held by the Uyghur Canadian Society on the persecution of Uyghurs in the People’s Republic of China. March 21, 2019 “I am Mehmet Tohti, representing the Uyghur Canadian community. “Today is the international ... Read More

By Kate Mayberry | Al Jazeera Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – A Malaysian human rights commission inquiry into the abduction of two people more than two years ago has found that the pair was probably disappeared by the intelligence branch of the country’s police. The three-member panel, ... Read More

By Catholic News Agency ROME – The Vatican Secretary of State condemned the ongoing abuse of religious freedom in many parts of the world, calling upon the media to highlight religious persecution wherever it occurs. “Despite so many efforts to promote and reinforce the fundamental ... Read More

By Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann | Hamilton Spectator On March 18, 2019, Sergei Skrynnikov, a Russian citizen and allegedly a Jehovah’s Witness, was charged with “participating in an extremist organization,” an offence under Russian law that could earn him up to six years in ... Read More

By Shafique Khokhar | Asia News Every year in the country at least 1,000 minority girls are forced to recant their faith and convert to Islam. Christian demonstrator: “It is a disgrace that forcible conversions are not considered a violation of human rights”. Activists of religious ... Read More

By Ewelina U. Ochab | Forbes At the end of March 2019, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in cooperation with the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief (IPPFoRB), published a new report scrutinizing the protection and enjoyment of the right to ... Read More

By Nathan Vanderklippe | The Globe and Mail Before she was shocked with a stun gun to the head for spending more than the allotted two minutes in the toilet, and before she was handcuffed for 24 hours because guards accused her of letting another woman participate in religious washing, and ... Read More

By Mark Martin & Heather Sells | CBN News China is tightening its grip on the country’s Christians through repeated efforts to persecute and silence the Church. Chinese believers are being rounded up, imprisoned and some even tortured for their faith. In addition, government officials ... Read More

Western Canadian agriculture is nowhere on the radar screen of Justin Trudeau’s government. Federal Conservatives, Provincial MLAs and Ag organizations have been trying to get Trudeau and the new federal Ag Minister’s attention, but there is little response. Trade development has stopped, ... Read More

By Forum 18 Three Baptist churches in the city of Taraz have been subjected to raids from anti-terrorism officers in recent weeks. Despite claiming “our laws don’t ban praying,” officials defend their punishment of those who meet for worship without state permission. On ... Read More