Freedom of Religion and Belief
NEPAL: Pastor must begin prison term for praying and evangelizing Nepali Pastor Keshab Acharya faces a year of jail time for prayer and evangelism after a court refused to hear his appeal challenging his conviction from late November 2021. ADF continues to support...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
IRAN: Monthly Digest – Religious persecution and issues in January Christians Arrested Christian convert held incommunicado in unknown location, parents ‘very worried’ Article 18 (22.01.2024) – A Christian convert arrested last week remains in...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: EU sanctions against a military training company created by a high-level Orthodox cleric An EU’s pinprick in the Russian military-Orthodox complex. Patriarch Kirill and the whole Russian Orthodox Church should be under EU sanctions, according to Human Rights...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Metropolitan Kirill of Stavropol at the opening of the conference “Sacred War: Transformation of Russia” RUSSIA: Russian Orthodox Church Conference “The war on Ukraine is a Sacred War” The Russian Orthodox Church stressed that thanks to their...
Human Rights in the World, Uncategorized
Rare footage obtained by BBC Korea shows North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-dramas. By Sangmi Han, BBC Korean, Seoul BBC (18.01.2024) – The footage, which appears to have been filmed in 2022, shows two...