By Christopher Vondracek | The Washington Times Two congressman — a Maryland Democrat and the Republican Chair of the Freedom Caucus — have introduced a bipartisan resolution condemning “blasphemy” laws, a move cheered by religious ... Full Article

By the Catholic Herald In the decade from 2007 to 2017, religious freedom declined around the world. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Pew Research Center published last week. Pew found that 52 governments were imposing ... Full Article

By HRANA News Agency HRANA news agency – Today, Hamid Naseri, a Baha’i living in Tehran, was arrested by security forces and transferred to an unknown location. It is said that the agents showed up at his business and arrested him. According ... Full Article

By Kian Sabeti | Iranwire An Iranian Baha’i woman accused of “propaganda against the regime” has been acquitted in a historic verdict that activists hope signals a move away from the discriminatory policies against the country’s largest ... Full Article

By James Samimi Farr | Religion News Service (RNS) — My wife and I don’t have much to go on. Just fragments of memories that we cling to like holy relics. Kamran Samimi, my wife’s grandfather, was tall and charming. He wore colorful ... Full Article

By Courtney Grogan | Catholic News Agency Islamabad, Pakistan – While the world awaits the fate of Asia Bibi, who remains in hiding in Pakistan following the acquittal of her death sentence for blasphemy, religious freedom advocates are ... Full Article

By Maggie Michael | Associated Press CAIRO — An international rights group on Tuesday decried the prosecution of 24 Yemeni Bahais, including women and a teenager, by a Houthi rebel court on espionage charges. Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty ... Full Article

By World Watch Monitor A wealth of research shows that a society’s level of religious freedom is linked to its levels of critical social indicators, such as prosperity, stability and peace, the chairman of the US Commission on International ... Full Article

By Christian Today The United Nations is failing to protect religious freedom and guard against the rise in anti-conversion laws, a damning report launched next week claims. Several Indian states, Nepal, Myanmar and Bhutan have all passed laws ... Full Article

By Christian Today While many countries are increasingly denying religious freedoms, especially bad acts of religious persecution are more likely to draw global protest 20 years after the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, a US federal ... Full Article

By HRANA News Agency, via Iran Press Watch Five Baha’i citizens were sentenced to one year in jail, each, by Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad in recent weeks. According to HRANA (Human Rights Activists’ News Agency in Iran) ... Full Article

By Al Arabiya English Newly-released documentary evidence detailing “years of relentless oppression” suffered by the Baha’i community in Iran has been published by the Washington-based Baha’i International Community (BIC) this week. A ... Full Article

Anderson implores the Canadian Government to stop public execution FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, ON – David Anderson, Member of Parliament for Cypress Hills—Grasslands and Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Human Rights and Religious Freedom, ... Full Article

By Stoyan Zaimov | Christian Post A major report on religious persecution worldwide has exposed the hostilities that Christians and other religious minorities suffer, revealing that as much as 80 percent of the world’s population lives ... Full Article

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, ON – David Anderson, Member of Parliament for Cypress Hills-Grasslands and Official Opposition Critic for International Human Rights and Religious Freedom, has joined with colleagues to highlight Iran’s ... Full Article

By World Religion News The people belonging to the Baha’i community have been facing harassment from the Yemeni authorities for some time now. The latest is an order to arrest about 25 Baha’is. The Baha’is are being accused by the ... Full Article

My Mark Woods | Christian Today British parliamentarian Baroness Berridge has urged the importance of freedom of religion as part of building peace and social cohesion. Writing on the Politics Home website to mark Commonwealth Day, Berridge, who ... Full Article

By United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights GENEVA (4 October 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, today called on the authorities in Yemen to put an end to ... Full Article

INU- The Global Dispatch reports that three Christians have been arrested and that their current whereabouts are unknown, following a raid on a pastor’s home. The pastor, Matthias Haghnejad, had been targeted by regime forces in the past, as ... Full Article

By Elliott Abrams, The Washington Post Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a deputy national security adviser in the George W. Bush administration. Public rites will be visible ... Full Article