Image by videaki from Pixabay Yesterday, July 1, 2020, the United States Department of State issued a business advisory which serves to “caution businesses about the risks of supply chain links to entities that engage in human rights abuses.” One such entity is the Chinese government, which forces Uyghurs and other Muslims into concentration camps …
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Photo by Basil James on Unsplash Via social media recently, Cuban Pastor Ramón Rigal Rodríquez announced his release from prison, posting to his personal Facebook profile “Gracias a Dios por todos los hermanos que han estado orando por nosotros. Ya estoy nuevamente en casa con mi familia” (“Thank God for all the brothers who have …
Photo by John-Mark Smith on Unsplash In USCIRF’s recent update on religious freedom in Yemen, analyst Scott Weiner focuses on trends of persecution against various religious populations. The Houthi movement, a “Zaidi Shi’a Muslim revivalism and education” movement, has repeatedly been engaged in conflict with Yemeni security authorities. Despite a ceasefire agreement with the national …
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Just a few days ago, leading expert on the Uyghur crisis in China, Adrian Zenz, released two novel reports- one of which focuses on information technology company Huawei’s involvement in the persecution of Uyghurs, and the other raising discussion of the evidence of forced sterilization and birth control in Xinjiang.
Two pieces of news were recently released in mid-2020 which appear to have no relation to each other on the surface but have together drawn the attention of human rights and religious freedom activists alike for their troubling implications for the future of Pakistan and its marginalized citizens, particularly religious minorities.
Throughout one week in mid-May 2020, numerous Adara communities of southern Kaduna State, Nigeria, were relentlessly attacked by suspected Fulani militants, leading to the gruesome and untimely deaths of at least 23 Nigerian Christians and injuries of tens of others who sustained brutal injuries from guns and machetes. Gonan Rogo village was the first to …
On June 24, 2020, the United States Department of State released its 2019 Country reports on Terrorism, in which they focus on terrorist groups and activity in each country, noting specific terrorist events throughout the past year that were particularly devastating or newsworthy. In its report on Nigeria, the State Department focuses on the activity …
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Photograph by ChinaAid. Xiao Hongliu, the wife of imprisoned Early Rain Covenant Church leader Qin Defu, has made a public request for international prayer. In December 2018, Qin Defu was arrested along with some 100 Early Rain Covenant Church worshipers during a raid on underground churches launched by the Chinese Communist Party in an attempt …
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June has been a dangerous month for many Nigerian citizens in the northeast of the nation, although it can be argued that no month goes by without terrorist attacks that leave dozens dead and many more severely injured.
The United States Commission on International Religious Belief recently released its Pakistan Policy Update following in the steps of the recent 2020 Annual Report.
