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

By Al Jazeera The United States government commission on religious freedom has urged action against ally Saudi Arabia after its mass execution of 37 people, most of them Shia Muslims. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, whose members are appointed by the president and ... Read More

By Christian Solidarity Worldwide Authorities in Jiangsu, China demolished 5,911 ‘folk belief’ temples within one month, according to a report released by the Christian human rights organization ChinaAid on 23 April. The report comes days after a new European Parliament resolution ... Read More

By Christian Solidarity Worldwide Four Christians have been falsely arrested for alleged involvement in conversion in Ghorahi, a city in the Dang Deukhuri District, Nepal. Conversion is illegal in Nepal. Local police arrested two men and two women at their hotel at approximately 8am on 23 ... Read More

By David Brennan | Newsweek Russian security services have launched a series of raids against the homes and meeting places of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the country’s far-eastern Siberian region, detaining several devotees. The actions are the latest in a nationwide crackdown against the ... Read More

This past weekend was Easter, the preeminent holiday of the Christian faith. The message of Easter is one of self-sacrifice and of one who gives himself so that all others might have hope. Most people around the world believe they have an obligation to those less fortunate – that we ... Read More

By John McBeth | Asia Times While it may have given President Joko Widodo a significantly larger majority than in the last race in 2014, Indonesia’s April 17 presidential election has put the archipelago’s religious and ethnic divides into much sharper and worrying relief. It also partly ... Read More

By Christian Today The head of the UK Coptic Orthodox Church has called on faith communities to make a joint stand against “anti-Christianism”. Archbishop Angaelos made the appeal in the wake of horrific attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday in which at ... Read More

By Beth Stolicker | Mission News Network Indonesia (MNN) – Last Wednesday Indonesia re-elected President Joko Widodo. But with this most recent election have come concerns for religious freedom in the country. Indonesia is home to over 17,000 islands scattered across the Pacific’s Ring of ... Read More

By Release International | Christian Today The death toll continues to rise following Easter service bomb attacks against churches in Sri Lanka. “We’re shocked and appalled and our prayers go out for our brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka,” says Paul Robinson, the CEO of ... Read More

By Hannah Beech, Dharisha Bastians and Kai Schultz | The New York Times JAKARTA, Indonesia — The deadly attacks in Sri Lanka on Sunday highlighted how easily religious coexistence can be ripped apart in a region where secularism is weakening amid the growing appeal of a politics based on ... Read More