My office has prepared an update on the state of freedom of religion or belief in Bahrain. Please watch the video report below. Thank you for your engagement with issues of religious freedom. David Anderson, MP Read More

Doctors know the importance of conscience rights to themselves and their patients. I spoke with Dr. Ramona Coelho, MD about my bill, C-418, the Protection of Freedom of Conscience Act. If passed, it would establish penalties if someone attempts to compel participation in euthanasia and assisted ... Read More

By Marlo Safi | National Review Dennis Christensen, a Dane who moved to Russia in 1995, has been in custody by the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia for nearly two years. He faces charges for “extremism”; in Russia, being a practicing Jehovah’s Witness qualifies as extremism after ... Read More

By Susan Korah | Epoch Times Advanced technological tools that enable the Chinese regime to eavesdrop on smartphone conversations not only in China but also in Canada and other countries is putting regular people under inescapable surveillance, says the director of Human Rights Watch, an ... Read More

Last week, an interesting question was asked in the House of Commons that the Liberals refused to answer. It was: Will the Liberal Cabinet will be issuing a secretive Order in Council, without public discussion, that will implement a firearms ban in Canada? Will it be announced in June in ... Read More

By BBC News Gunmen have killed six people including a priest as Mass was being celebrated in a church in Dablo in northern Burkina Faso, officials say. The attackers, said to number between 20 and 30, then burned down the church. The town’s mayor, Ousmane Zongo, said that there was panic ... Read More

By Asif Aqeel | Christianity Today Now that Asia Bibi has finally left Pakistan and been reunited with her family in Canada, her prison cell has a new resident: yet another Christian woman condemned to death over blasphemy charges. Bibi’s lawyer, Saif-ul Malook, told CT he will now take up ... Read More

By the Daily Times The Ahmadi community in Pakistan is being subjected to increasing discrimination under the PTI government, according to a report released by the minority group this week. The report states that Ahmadis are the victims of institutionalised bigotry and are being prosecuted for ... Read More

By Lily Kuo | The Guardian Around this time of the year, the edge of the Taklamakan desert in far western China should be overflowing with people. For decades, every spring thousands of Uighur Muslims would converge on the Imam Asim shrine, a group of buildings and fences surrounding a small ... Read More

By World Religion News For the last three years, Beijing has compelled Uighur Muslim minority members living in Xinjiang province to not do any fast along with other religious rituals marking one of the holiest months in Islam. As per reports from Xinjiang province, authorities have forbidden ... Read More

I’d prefer not to come back to the same issue again and again. However, Justin Trudeau’s failure to address the issues around the Chinese government’s attack on our canola farmers has emboldened the Chinese authorities to further punish our agriculture producers. Now, as they did with ... Read More

By Ewelina U. Ochab | Forbes Are Jehovah’s Witnesses extremists? Russian courts certainly think so. On April 1, 2019, Sergey Skrynnikov, a practicing Jehovah’s Witness in Russia, became the second member of the religious group to be convicted under Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal ... Read More

By Madeleine Davies | Church Times Warnings that religious freedom in China is at a 40-year low, and that the country is home to one of the largest populations of religious prisoners in the world, were the backdrop to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit last week. In its annual report, ... Read More

By Jack Doyle | Daily Mail Christians are ‘by far the most persecuted’ religious group and are enduring what amounts to genocide in some parts of the world, a report concluded. They are being driven out of the Middle East in a modern-day exodus that means the religion could be wiped ... Read More

By Simina Mistreanu | The Guardian Using too much electricity or having acquaintances abroad are among a list of reasons that prompt authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region to investigate Uighurs and other Muslims who might be deemed “untrustworthy” and sent to internment camps, ... Read More

By Sriram Lakshman | The Hindu The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan, independent federal government commission has said that there is an “overall deterioration of religious freedom conditions in 2018” in India, in its 2019 report released earlier ... Read More

By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Full recognition of religious freedom must include recognition of the right of believers to conscientiously object to participating in activities that violate their religious beliefs and religiously inspired moral values, said the ... Read More

By USCIRF Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released its 20th Annual Report documenting country conditions in, and analyzing and recommending U. S. policy initiatives toward, the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. ... Read More

Holy days are no longer holy. Each time a faith group celebrates, we wait for the bad news. And last week, there was another tragedy – a directed attack, on Easter Sunday, on Christian worshippers in Sri Lanka. In a well-coordinated, multi-pronged attack, Islamist suicide bombers killed ... Read More

By Catholic News Agency Kathmandu, Nepal, Apr 27, 2019 / 04:31 pm (CNA).- Reports of five Christians being arrested on faith-related charges in Nepal this week have sparked international concern and calls for changes to the country’s strict anti-conversion laws. “Nobody should be persecuted ... Read More