By Halya Coynash KHPG (05.11.2018) – https://bit.ly/2F4wxCW – There seems no end to the uses that Russian state propaganda will make of the tragic mass killing in occupied Kerch on October 17. After falsely claiming that the suspected killer “looked like a Tatar”, Russian or Russian-controlled media continued to claim some kind of ‘Ukrainian […]
CONTINUE READINGPolice set up roadblocks on Punjab highways as radicals protest in the province and the capital Islamabad. The authorities are monitoring the situation from a central control centre, including “red zones” in sensitive areas. By Kamran Chaudry AsiaNews (31.10.2018) – https://bit.ly/2PdYRrd – This morning Pakistan’s Supreme Court cleared Asia Bibi of all charges. The […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Telegraph (02.11.2018) – https://bit.ly/2PDQPXW – Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Coptic Christians in central Egypt on Friday, killing at least seven in the latest attack on a religious minority repeatedly targeted by jihadists. The attackers opened fire on the bus in Minya, the province’s bishop told AFP. The gunmen “killed seven people […]
CONTINUE READING– HRWF (31.10.2018) – Lu Yongfeng, female, born on 16 October 1948, lived at 0422 Group 6, Wulanheshuo Village, Wulanheshuo Township, Chaoyang County, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province. In 1999, she joined The Church of Almighty God. At 3:00 a.m. on 27 June 2018, more than ten uniformed officers with the Beipiao City Criminal Brigade of […]
CONTINUE READINGBy Massimo Introvigne The Korea Times (29.10.2018) – https://bit.ly/2OZEXzX – Chinese authorities are undertaking an extensive fake news campaign in Korea to persuade local authorities to deport Chinese members of the Church of Almighty God who have come here to escape religious persecution. With the Ministry of Justice looking to revise the Refugee Act […]
CONTINUE READINGTerror in occupied territories: Rights advocates publish instances of persecution of churches Read the report here. RISU (24.10.2018) – https://bit.ly/2Dh8I94 (en) / https://bit.ly/2ETCa6U (ru) – The Institute for Religious Liberty presented a report, “Freedom of religious confession in the crosshairs: Russian terror in occupied territories of eastern Ukraine.” In it the rights […]
CONTINUE READINGTian Ji’an, male, born 27 September 1953, resident of Huafeng Township, Shizhu County, Chongqing Municipality, joined The Church of Almighty God (CAG) on 8 June 2002. On 5 June 2006, he was arrested and brutally beaten by the Chinese Communist police. As a result, Tian suffered from a lacerated lumbar vertebra and a fractured cranium […]
CONTINUE READINGOne church member said to be in critical condition. Morning Star News (23.10.2018) – https://bit.ly/2zhJqn2 – After torturing them and threatening to charge them with serious crimes, authorities in Sudan have released 13 Christians arrested in the Darfur Region, sources said. Personnel from Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) released 12 of the […]
CONTINUE READINGBy Sophia Saifi and James Griffiths CNN (31.10.2018) – https://cnn.it/2JsxC5V – Pakistan’s Supreme Court has acquitted a Christian woman who has been on death row for almost eight years on blasphemy charges. Asia Bibi, a mother of five from Punjab province, was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to hang after she […]
CONTINUE READINGE.S. v. Austria (no. 38450/12) – Fifth Section Chamber Judgment 25 October 2018 HRWF (30.10.2018) – E.S., the applicant, is Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and was partly educated in Iran, where she was present during the Islamic revolution of 1979. She worked at the Austrian embassy in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion […]
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