Members of a Baptist church in Mexico’s Hidalgo State who were displaced in April have moved to neighboring Veracruz State after local officials failed to honor their religious freedom rights, an international human rights group reported.
Muslim vigilante groups are working with federal authorities to lure young people into sharing blasphemous content on social media in order to put them behind bars …
A coalition of 17 international human rights organizations is demanding Pakistan be suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations due its blasphemy laws and other rights violations, but local activists say that could result in more hardship…
Authorities in Pakistan have failed to curb a range of human rights violations, including a sharp increase in blasphemy-related violence, the UN Human Rights Committee noted last week.
A former Army general in Nigeria said his death sentence following riots more than 30 years ago was the result of Muslim military leaders controlling a sham tribunal.
Expressing alarm over an increase in false blasphemy accusations in Pakistan, the UN Human Rights Committee last week urged repeal or amending of the country’s harsh blasphemy laws.
Myanmar — historically known as Burma — is “a disintegrating nation” where leaders of religious minorities continue to be targeted by the military, a report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom stated.
Muslims in Sudan’s River Nile state on Oct. 19 drove 34 displaced Christians from their homes, sources said.
As the Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church approaches, Southern Baptists are encouraged to pray for the believers who are met with threats, beatings, imprisonment and even death for their faith in Christ.
China has subjected hundreds of North Koreans to atrocities since last year by forcibly returning them to a country whose leaders hold that religion, especially Christianity, is the greatest threat to its power, experts say …
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