Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to protecting religious freedom at home and abroad in a statement marking National Religious Freedom Day on January 16. But, as critics ...
Read More »India’s New Anti-Prayer Law Claims First Christian Pastor in Unprecedented Arrest
A Baptist pastor has become the first person arrested under a controversial new law in India’s Assam state that criminalizes prayer healing. It marks what religious freedom advocates call a concerning escalation ...
Read More »Group pleads with Biden to stop Chinese genocide against Uyghur minority
A Uyghur group protesting Chinese treatment of minority religious populations is calling on President Joe Biden to act upon the Trump administration’s “genocide” designation against China. The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement ...
Read More »China and its ‘tainted’ cotton picked by persecuted religious minorities
China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs, Christians and other minorities into hard, manual labor in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang, according to new research seen ...
Read More »New Communist rules in effect Feb. 1 further strangle Chinese religious minorities
Christians and other religious groups will face “harsh” new rules Feb. 1 in China. The regulations were announced in late 2019 and religious freedom advocates say they’ll further endanger followers of many ...
Read More »Iraq Christians face bias in school curriculum
After $1 trillion spent and thousands of lost American service members, is anything really changing in Iraq? Archbishop Louis Raphael Sako, leader of Iraq’s Chaldean ancient Christian community, has asked the Ministry ...
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