By Catholic News Agency Jews and Muslims in Belgium could face difficulty finding food prepared according to their religious rules, as new animal slaughter regulations banning kosher or halal slaughter began to take effect on January 1. Joos ... 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 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 Tom Heneghan | Religion News Service (RNS) — Germany is rethinking its approach to combating anti-Semitism after a protest against President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital turned the anti-Jewish prejudices of some ... 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

By Samuel Smith | The Christian Post An interfaith gathering of religious leaders will sign a historic declaration for human rights and religious freedom authored by the King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at a signing ceremony in Los ... Full Article

By Al-Monitor A top UAE official on Wednesday accused Qatari broadcast giant Al-Jazeera of anti-Semitism, discrimination and inciting religious hate, in a rebuttal to UN accusations of attacking freedom of expression. The United Nations has ... Full Article

By Marton Dunai | Reuters Hungarian Jews said on Thursday Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s billboard campaign against migration and foreign influence, using the image of U.S. financier George Soros, was a proxy for anti-Semitism. They urged ... 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 Rodney Muhumuza | AP MBALE, Uganda (AP) — Seth Yonadav swaggered along a dirt path in rural Uganda, pointing toward the new synagogue where young men wearing yarmulkes lingered. Up on a hill the synagogue stood like a crown jewel, ... Full Article

By Postmedia Network | Toronto Sun Call it the French Rejection. More than 5,000 French Jews pulled up stakes and moved to Israel in the past year following a spike in anti-Semitism and terrorism fears, according to a new report. The 2015 Paris ... Full Article

By Kjetil Malkenes Hovland | Wall Street Journal OSLO—A group of young Muslims embraced the Jewish synagogue in Oslo in a “ring of peace” Saturday, protesting anti-Semitism and denouncing violence after terrorist attacks targeting Jews in ... Full Article