by admin_HRWF | Oct 19, 2018 | China, Christians, Church of Almighty God, EU, European Parliament, France, Freedom of Religion and Belief, Human Rights in the World, Islam, Muslims, North Korea, Religion, Religion LGBT people & human rights, Russia, Security x Religion, Terrorism, Trafficking in Human Beings, Ukraine, Uncategorized, Uyghurs, Women's Rights & Gender Equality
– Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/wgOK0_XA6Vg Panelists Elisa Van Ruiten, a Gender Specialist at Human Rights Without Frontiers International; Mohinder Watson, a researcher and activist against child marriage, who escaped a forced marriage of her own as...
by admin_HRWF | Jul 27, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Religion, Russia, Ukraine
Pictures: https://bit.ly/2LKUYHu Heads, members of 10 local Orthodox Churches to celebrate 1030th anniversary of Baptism of Rus in Moscow Moscow, July 27, Interfax – www.interfax-religion.com/ – Representatives of ten local Orthodox Churches from around...
by admin_HRWF | Jul 27, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Russia, Ukraine
Ukrinform (27.07.2018) – https://bit.ly/2Oo00IH – A religious procession of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) has ended in Kyiv without any incidents. The pilgrims marched from Saint Volodymyr Hill to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra...
by admin_HRWF | Jul 18, 2018 | Christians, Freedom of Religion and Belief, Russia
JW Headquarters (18.07.2018) – On Sunday 15 July 2018, around 4 p.m., a police raid took place in Penza (about 650 km SE of Moscow). The police officers arrived at homes where four small groups of Witnesses had gathered. They had waited for someone to leave the...
by admin_HRWF | Jul 10, 2018 | Christians, Russia
JW Headquarters / Russia Religion News (10.07.2018) – https://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/180706a.html – On 6 July 2018, 46-year-old Sergei Poliakov and his wife, Anastasia, who are suspected of professing the religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses,...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 7, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Radicalism, Religion, Russia
HRWF (08.06.2018) – The number of Jehovah’s Witnesses deprived of their freedom has been dramatically and rapidly increasing in Russia since the ban of their religion in April 2017. It can unfortunately be expected that the situation will worsen day after day and that...
