by admin_HRWF | Jan 17, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Compared to the first year they were implemented, punishments in Russian-occupied Crimea for ill-defined “missionary activity” doubled in 2018. Of 23 prosecutions for sharing faith or holding worship at unapproved venues, 19 ended in punishment. Also, 17...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 16, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Priests evicted, building shuttered. Morning Star News (19.01.2019) – https://bit.ly/2VPtiU6 – Police in Upper Egypt evicted Coptic priests and shuttered their church building after an Islamist mob converged on the site over the weekend,...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 16, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Threat levels rise in China amid crackdown and India enters top 10 for first time By Harriet Sherwood The Guardian (16.01.2019) – https://bit.ly/2ARc7bX – The persecution of Christians in China is the worst it has been for more than a decade,...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 14, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
HRWF (14.01.2019) – On 5-6 February 2019, the 6th EU-Azerbaijan Subcommittee (SC) on Justice, Freedom, Security and Human Rights and Democracy will take place in Baku. In 2018 and 2017, no Jehovah’s Witness was in prison for the exercise of his/her religious...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 12, 2019 | Christians, Freedom of Religion and Belief
– By Dr H. David Baer, Pastor Gerhard A. and Marion Poehlmann Professor in Theology, Texas Lutheran University, dbaer@tlu.edu – Hungarian Spectrum (28.12.2018) – https://bit.ly/2Fy67bt – Amidst the uproar over Hungary’s “slave...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 10, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Geraldine Fagan East-West Church Report (vol. 26, no. 4, 2018) – They’re singing the Lord’s Prayer, you might take of your hat!” Hearing the elderly woman’s reproach, a man of similar age meekly slides his cap down to his chest. The pair stand near the...
