Just this week, the Chinese government responded to US sanctions against Chinese officials responsible in part for the persecution and internment of millions of Uyghurs by leveling its own sanctions against US officials, notably Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Marco Rubio, Rep. Chris Smith, and Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback.
Photo by Zen zeee on Unsplash On July 10, 2020, President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced that the Hagia Sophia museum, despite its status on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List, would be converted into an active mosque. Just last week, according to Al Jazeera, a Turkish court …
The United Christian Forum (UCF) recently revealed that violence against Christians in India has reached just over half of the nation’s states. Within the short span of the first six months of 2020, the pervasive spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with an increase in the frequency of religiously motivated attacks against Indian Christians: …
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Just over the weekend, on July 12, 2020, it was announced that the government of Sudan has taken action to restore human rights and religious freedom for its citizens by eliminating discriminatory alcohol restrictions, abolishing apostasy laws, criminalizing female genital mutilation and cutting, and granting women travel rights.
In a positive turn of events, the United States Department of the Treasury announced today, July 9, that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned a few government officials and one government entity for their role in the ongoing violations of human rights committed against the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. …
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Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash In China, it is no secret that the ruling Communist Party is in the midst of a campaign to destroy religious conviction among its citizens: from the millions of Uyghurs and Muslims in prison in Xinjiang, the exorbitant restrictions on religious practice and language of Tibetan Buddhists, to the …
Buhari’s presidential aide, Garba Shehu, states “when uncritical attention is afforded to critics with dubious intentions, it only becomes harder for both the government and people of Nigeria to engage in constructive dialogue to resolve our differences, and uphold what is enshrined in our Constitution and laws: that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.”
Image by Paul Kral from Pixabay It was revealed in a report by Eritrea Hub that, in late June 2020, a peaceful wedding ceremony taking place in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was ambushed by local security forces, and 30 Eritrean Christians from various “unregistered denominations” were arrested, rounded up, and transported to a police …
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Photo by Manson Yim on Unsplash In early July, it was announced that US Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and US Representatives John Curtis (R-UT) and Joaquin Castro (D-TX) introduced in both the Senate and House of Representatives a landmark bill that could potentially provide Hong Kong protesters with an escape route …
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Photo by Erika Giraud on Unsplash Cardinal Joseph Zen of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong, in light of the recent passage of the oppressive national security law, claimed on his personal Facebook profile that “If right and proper words were considered against their law, I will endure all the suing, trials and arrests. Numerous …
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