More than 100,000 minority Rohingya Muslims held in camps due to violence by Buddhist extremists face ‘systematic discriminisation’, according to the new United Nations Human Rights Envoy for Myanmar, Yanghee Lee. On July 26, Lee spoke after a 10-day fact-finding mission to the region where she applauded the country’s development in human rights but warned…
Iraqi Christians forced out of their city after a serious death threat from Islamic militant fanatics have been offered asylum by the Government of France. The Christian community of Mosul, considered one of the oldest in the world, fled the country’s second largest city on 19 July after the Islamic State Group (IS) formerly known…
The former Religious Affairs Minister in Myanmar was charged in court on July 22 with undermining national security after he allegedly objected to a raid by Government officials from his own department against the Mahasantisukha monastery in Yangon’s Tamwe township which then led to protests by monks. Hsan Sint is being held in Yamethin prison…
Historian and author William Dalrymple says the death of Arab secularism is on the horizon as Christians are persecuted and pushed out of the Middle East with the past decade deemed especially ‘catastrophic’ for believers. Some 12 million Christians in the region face persecution through Islamic fundamentalism, according to the well-known writer in a newspaper…
On Thursday 24 July, the House of Lords debated the issue of International Freedom of Religion or Belief, Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Lord Alton, a Vice Chair of this All Party Parliamentary Group, began his opening remarks by saying that not only was Article 18 a universal human right, it was…
A mother of two young children who escaped court verdicts of flogging and death by hanging for her Christian beliefs has flown from the US embassy in Khartoum to Italy. Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, her toddler son Martin, baby daughter Maya and wheelchair-bound husband Daniel were accompanied by Italian Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Lapo Pistelli…
Violence against Jewish people in Paris has been condemned by the Prime Minister of France. A synagogue and shops were looted by a masked mob on the rampage protesting against Israel’s military action in Gaza. A funeral parlour and a pharmacy were amongst the premises damaged during the illegal protest which turned violent on Sunday…
Police in eastern China failed to remove a cross from a church after Christian protestors surrounded the building at 2am on Monday (21 July). Reuters reports that the police had been following a Government order and several people were injured during the altercation in Pingyang county near Wenzhou city. The site was subsequently locked down…
India’s parliament was adjourned to protest against some hungry right wing MPs so angry that a government canteen in Delhi did not serve the food they wanted that bread was forced into the mouth of a Muslim kitchen worker who was fasting for Ramadan. Parties in opposition followed the Congress by protesting in parliament against…
The city of Mosul is now empty of Christians for the first time in the history of Iraq, according to Patriarch Louis Sako after Islamist fighters told them to convert, pay a protection tax – or be killed reports The Telegraph. Families, the elderly and the disabled were seen walking in the fierce Summer heat…