After the secularist prime minister of Bangladesh fled the country, non-Muslims claim they have suffered attacks in the Islamic-majority country. Around 90 percent of the South Asian nation is Muslim, with 7.95 percent being Hindu, 0.6 percent Buddhist, and just 0.3 percent being Christian – just about 500,000 people in a nation of 170 million. Read more
Posts Tagged ‘religious persecution’
Religious minorities in Bangladesh under fire after fall of secular regime
Thursday, August 15th, 2024Tajikistan will no longer register any new churches
Thursday, July 7th, 2022Sulaymon Davlatzoda, the Chair of the State Committee for Religious Affairs and Regulation of Traditions, Ceremonies and Rituals (SCRA), summoned leaders of Protestant Churches to a meeting at its offices in Dushanbe in late May. “We will no longer register any new Churches. We will keep the figure of registered Churches unchanged from now on’, Read more
PM understands why massacre survivor thanked Trump
Monday, July 22nd, 2019
The prime minister of New Zealand says she is not surprised by the thanks and praise that a survivor of the terrorist attack on mosques in Christchurch offered President Trump. Farid Ahmed, who lost his wife in the shootings, was among 27 survivors of religious persecution from all over the world who met president Trump Read more
Chinese Christians warned not to speak about persecution
Monday, July 15th, 2019
Chinese Christians are being gagged from speaking out about the Chinese government’s efforts to suppress religious freedom. Crosses are being removed and (news sources say) churches throughout China are being demolished. The ruling Communist Party has carried out a widespread crackdown on all religious institutions in recent years. Changes the government initiated last year in Read more
Australia’s Christians need to ‘suck it up and calm down’ over religious freedom
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
Australian Christians are not suffering from religious persecution says Baptist minister, leading Australian religious figure and social justice advocate Tim Costello. He is asking fellow Christians to “calm down” about their alleged persecution. His comments come amid a brewing political storm over how the government should act to protect against religious discrimination. Costello, a senior Read more
‘Somebody out there wants to hurt us’: Arson in Boston, Chicago rattles local Jews
Monday, May 27th, 2019A rash of fires that police say were intentionally set at Jewish community centers in Chicago and around Boston last week has left Jewish groups feeling vulnerable. At the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Arlington, Mass., where Rabbi Avi Bukiet and his family live about 20 minutes outside of Boston, firefighters were called to Read more
Persecution of Christians close to genocide
Monday, May 6th, 2019
The persecution of Christians is at near genocide levels in some parts of the world, says an interim report ordered by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. The review estimates that one in three people suffer from religious persecution. Of these, Christians are the most persecuted. Hunt says he thinks “political correctness” has played a part Read more
Hindu man granted asylum on religious grounds
Thursday, June 7th, 2018
A Hindu man who was forced to flee Malaysia after falling in love with the daughter of a Muslim family, a relationship barred by Malaysian law, has been granted asylum in New Zealand. The Immigration & Protection Tribunal hearing also heard testimony from the woman by phone from Malaysia. She said she intended to flee Read more
New Zealand tops Commonwealth religious freedom list
Thursday, April 26th, 2018
New Zealand has been named in new research as the Commonwealth member country where people enjoy the greatest religious freedom. The Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) statistics were unveiled ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting which took place on April 19 and 20 in the United Kingdom. The figures show that the 53-state Read more
Christians’ responses to religious persecution
Monday, September 4th, 2017
In a first-ever systematic global investigation, researchers have been looking at Christians around the globe facing religious persecution and how they respond to it. This has seen the Religious Freedom Institute working with two US universities to find out: the University of Notre Dame and Georgetown University’s Religious Freedom Project. The research findings are presented Read more