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| Mar 12, 2024 | India Begins Implementation of Discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act | 03/12/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — Four years after being passed by Parliament and signed into law, India’s controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will now be implemented, according to a government announcement Mond... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | What to know about Yemen's Houthi rebels and the Red Sea conflict | The U.S. and U.K. carried out airstrikes against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Thursday in response to dozens of attacks by the militant group on merchant and commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
Why it matters: The escalation in the Red S... |
| Jun 8, 2023 | An unprecedented number of international religious freedom advocates sign letter demanding freedom of young Nigerian | Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, 22, convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death for a WhatsApp message with song lyrics
Church of Scientology joined 209 international human rights and religious freedom advocates, parliamentarians, artists and others... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | NGOs call on Vietnam Authorities to Answer for Mysterious Deaths of Religious and Political Prisoners | NGOs call on Vietnam Authorities to Answer for Mysterious Deaths of Religious and Political Prisoners LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA, February 1, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A coalition of Vietnamese organizations at home and overseas issued a... |
| Dec 12, 2022 | Why A U.S. Member Of Congress Should Adopt Jimmy Lai | In this picture taken on June 16, 2020, millionaire media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 72, poses during an ... [+] interview with AFP at the Next Digital offices in Hong Kong. - Lai knows his support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests could s... |
| Sep 22, 2022 | Congress passes bipartisan religious freedom bill with support and praise from religious freedom advocates | First page of the letter to Congress
IRF Roundtable participants meeting on Capitol Hill
Church of Scientology joined 90 religious freedom advocates calling for reauthorization of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom
Strong ... |
| Jul 21, 2022 | Congress urged to reauthorize the US Commission on International Religious Freedom by 90 organizations and individuals | Cover of a USCIRF report on religious freedom issues
Rev. Susan Taylor addressing attendees at the 2022 International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, DC
Turning the tide of global religious persecution depends on the full support of... |
| May 19, 2022 | With Religious Persecution Rising Internationally Advocates Urge the Senate to Pass Religious Freedom Bill | International Religious Freedom Roundtable participants meeting on Capitol Hill
Letter to Congress supporting the US Commission on International Religious Freedom
Church of Scientology joins 90 religious freedom advocates asking for the US ... |
| Jan 20, 2022 | Pakistani woman given death sentence for sending 'blasphemous' messages on WhatsApp and Facebook | Aneeqa Ateeq was accused of sending blasphemous messages over WhatsApp. She has been sentenced to death. Thiago Prudêncio / SOPA Images: LightRocket via Getty Images
A 26-year-old woman in Pakistan accused of blasphemy on WhatsApp was sente... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Backdoor gives hackers complete control over federal agency network | Enlarge
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| Dec 16, 2021 | Backdoor gives hackers complete control over federal agency network | Enlarge
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| Nov 18, 2021 | US issues religious freedom ‘concern’ list, removes Nigeria | The United States has removed Nigeria from a list of “countries of particular concern” regarding religious freedom, a day before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives there as part of an African tour, while issuing designations for 1... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Q&A: ‘Religious freedom conditions in India greatly concerning’ | Boston, United States – In April this year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan federal government commission, recommended India be placed on a religious freedom blacklist for... |
| Jul 2, 2020 | Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Cumulative Charging of Islamic State Fighters in Domestic Trials | It is widely recognized that the terrorist group commonly referred to as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is responsible for crimes shocking in their scale and brutality. Even so, there has been a now years-long international debate conc... |
| Dec 13, 2019 | China Is Operating Mass Detention Centers in Xinjiang. How Should the U.S. Respond? | Introduction
The world has known for over two years about China’s Xinjiang internment camps. But in November, newly leaked Chinese government documents—known as the China Cables—thrust China’s detention centers and surveillance programs int... |
| Nov 24, 2019 | China and India are using the same playbook to trample on their minorities, and the rest of the world is too powerless to stop them | CPC members commemorate the 121st anniversary of former chairman Mao Zedong's birthday in December 2014 in Shaoshan, China.
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Muslims in Xinjiang, China, are being surveilled and locked up en masse by regional... |
| Apr 16, 2019 | USCIRF Condemns Terrorist Attack on Shi’a Muslims in Pakistan | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 15, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today condemned in the strongest possible terms Friday’s terrorist attack in Quetta, Pakistan, which left more th... |
| Dec 19, 2018 | Prosecuting Pakistan’s New Extremists | Pakistan confronts a new type of extremist threat: one that challenges state institutions without rejecting the state itself.
Last year, a new and relatively unknown religious movement led by a cleric named Khadim Hussain Rizvi staged a sit... |
| Aug 2, 2018 | Everything you need to know about Trump and Erdogan's dangerous feud over a jailed American pastor | The White House announced Wednesday it is slapping sanctions on two senior Turkish government ministers in a dispute over a jailed American pastor, ramping up tensions between the NATO allies that could lead to a serious confrontation.
Whit... |
| Jan 10, 2018 | The International Religious Freedom Act: A Primer | The new year has not, so far, seemed to have brought with it a new zenith for U.S.-Pakistan relations. On Jan. 1, President Donald Trump tweeted that Pakistan has offered “nothing but lies & deceit” in exchange for American aid, and “gi... |
| Sep 21, 2014 | The Foreign Policy Essay: Al Qaeda’s Re-launch in South Asia | Lost in the hubbub over the rise of the Islamic State and the Obama administration’s move to war in Iraq was the Al Qaeda core’s declaration of a new affiliate in South Asia—long a home to jihadist activity. C. Christine Fair, a colleague o... |
| May 24, 2014 | Pakistan: At the edge of the abyss? | The recent murder of a brave human rights lawyer Rashid Rehman reminds us of the society we have shaped. It is now an unregulated space where even defending the rights of an accused is a crime. Rehman had made all the threats, including tho... |
| China a ‘glaring example’ of religious repression, US says | China provides a “glaring example” of how governments are cracking down on religious minorities, a US official has said, as the Department of State released its annual report on religious freedom around the world.
Rashad Hussain, the US amb... |
| China sanctions U.S. religious freedom officials, Canadian member of parliament | The Chinese sanctions target the chair and vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Gayle Manchin and Tony Perkins.
Canadian parliamentarian Michael Chong and Canada’s House of Commons foreign affairs subcommitt... |
| India: Diplomatic storm over BJP staff insult of Prophet Muhammad | An international diplomatic storm has engulfed India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, following the sanctioning of two party spokespersons over insulting remarks the pair are reported to have... |
| Religious freedom in India ‘significantly worsened’: US panel | The state of religious freedom in India “significantly worsened” last year, a United States panel has said, calling for targeted sanctions against the country over alleged abuses.
In its annual report released on Monday, the US Commission o... |
