Consultation on Strychnine and Its Associated End-use Products (Ground Squirrel Use), Proposed Re-evaluation Decision PRVD2018-13 The Pest Management Regulatory Agency under Health Canada has given notice that it is planning to ban the use of Strychnine-based pesticides as a gopher control ... Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, ON – David Anderson, Member of Parliament for Cypress Hills—Grasslands has joined Rachael Harder, MP and 31 other Conservative MPs in a written letter to the Minister of Finance, highlighting the potential impact that U.S. retaliatory sanctions or tariffs would ... Read More

By Jonathan Luxmoore | Crux OXFORD, England – The Rwandan Catholic bishops’ conference urged the government of President Paul Kagame to preserve religious rights after government officials closed thousands of churches and mosques. The buildings remained locked because of what the ... Read More

By World Watch Monitor India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has for the first time condemned violence against minorities, saying that everyone has a duty to fight the “menace” of mob lynchings. But his critics say that, after four years in power at the head of a Hindu nationalist ... Read More

By Dr. David R. Stroup | BBC News China is determined to maintain control over how religion is practised, but recent threats to demolish a mosque could backfire, writes US-based academic David R Stroup. On a frigid morning in early February 2016, just before sunrise, I stood in the courtyard of ... Read More

By Apriadi Gunawan | Jakarta Post A Chinese-Indonesian woman of the Buddhist faith in Tanjung Balai, North Sumatra, faces a possible 1.5-year prison sentence after she was charged with blasphemy for saying that the azan (the Islamic call to prayer) that was blasted from a speaker of a mosque ... Read More

By Asia News Weizhou (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Protests have broken out in the Ningxia Autonomous Region after the authorities decided to tear down the Grand Mosque in Weizhou. Thousands of ethnic Hui Muslims protested Thursday, when they occupied the square in front of the place of worship. As a ... Read More

By Michael Martina | Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – Hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims are staging a sit-in protest in China’s western region of Ningxia against government plans to demolish a huge new mosque, amid tightening curbs on Islam to pull its practice in line with the Chinese ... Read More

By Stephen Wright | Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The battle lines for Indonesia’s 2019 presidential election were drawn Friday as the incumbent Joko “Jokowi” Widodo formally registered as a candidate after choosing a conservative Islamic cleric as his running mate. Jokowi, ... Read More

By Emily Rauhala | Washington Post ZHARKENT, Kazakhstan — First-of-its-kind courtroom testimony here has corroborated allegations that the Chinese government has built a network of internment camps in western China where Muslim minorities are held without charge for “reeducation.” ... Read More

By ABC News A United Nations human rights panel believes it has received many credible reports that more than 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are being held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.” Gay McDougall, a member of the UN Committee on ... Read More

By Iain Marlow | Bloomberg Hardline members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party want to expand a controversial register that could strip millions of their citizenship, in a move aimed at attracting majority Hindu voters ahead of national elections. A draft national register of ... Read More

By Cristina Maza | Newsweek Jehovah’s Witnesses who face persecution in Russia are fleeing to nearby Finland, where they are allowed to worship freely, according to the religious group’s representatives. There are nearly 300 Jehovah’s Witnesses currently seeking asylum in the Nordic ... Read More

By Michael Foust | Christian Headlines China is in the midst of an “ambitious new effort” to lesson or even eradicate the influence of Christianity and religion from the country, according to an investigation by the Associated Press. An in-depth story by AP described churches being shut ... Read More

By Shafique Khokhar | Herald Malaysia Pakistan’s blasphemy law has reaped another innocent victim. Qutab Rind, a young artist from Jacobabad who attended the National College of Arts in Lahore, was killed after he was accused of blasphemy. Three students broke his legs and arms and then threw ... Read More

Aysha Khan | Religion News Service ALTON, United Kingdom (RNS) — Johnnie Moore, one of President Trump’s evangelical advisers, stood before the Ahmadi caliph and tens of thousands of his Muslim followers on Saturday (Aug. 4) and celebrated the phrase “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is ... Read More

By Associated Press The 62-year-old Chinese shopkeeper had waited nearly his entire adult life to see his dream of building a church come true – a brick house with a sunny courtyard and spacious hall with room for 200 believers. But in March, about a dozen police officers and local officials ... Read More

By World Watch Monitor Christian villagers in a rural district of India’s Maharashtra state have been told that one church will be closed down every week because they have been “destroying” local tradition and culture by “luring” others to convert to Christianity. Since June, over a ... Read More

By Christian Solidarity Worldwide CSW is saddened by news that one of the hostages abducted by the Islamic State (IS, Daesh) during the attack on Suwayda in southern Syria on 25 July was executed on 2 August. CSW’s sources have confirmed that Muhannad Zouqan, 19, was executed on 2 August, ... Read More

By Sharon Rosen and Kimberly Hart | The Hill How often do you hear the expression “religious conflict”? Pretty often, we bet. Every day, headlines use this term to talk about violence and destruction in different parts of the world. But is it true that religion is an inciter of war, an ... Read More