Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest July 01-15 General 01.07.2023 – Religious leaders urged to enhance China’s ‘soft power’ UCA news – Religions should be guided by core socialist values and Chinese culture, said top...
Human Rights in the World
The 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh: still unacknowledged, says a new documentary 3,000,000 people killed, 400,000 women raped, tens of thousands abducted, 43,000 who were girls at the time still missing. Global Human Rights Defence’s movie calls for justice. By Marco...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest June 16-30 29.06.2023 – Russian patriarch tells papal envoy their Churches should work together for peace Reuters – The head of Russia’s influential Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, told an...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly digest June 16-30 General 29.06.2023 – Bookstores searched for illegal religious literature in Henan Bitter Winter – “Pornography and obscenity” and “xie jiao [a term indicating ‘heterodox teachings’...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest June 01-15 15.06.2023 – Jehovah’s Witness approved sentence in Kemerovo Region SOVA – On June 14, 2023, the Kemerovo Regional Court upheld the verdict against Jehovah’s Witness Sergei Ananin,...