Pastors Tonchev and Kiryakov: Bulgaria

Two Bulgarian pastors stood up against a scaremongering campaign by their local government to label all non-Eastern Orthodox Christians as sects and warn children off against them. The ECHR heard their case, they won and were awarded damages.

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Shagufta and Shafqat: Pakistan

Shagufta und Shafqat

The Pakistani Christian couple Shagufta and Shafqat languished on death row for seven years on false blasphemy charges. Their death sentence was overturned in June 2021. They are now safe in Europe.

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Zavod ŽIVIM: Slovenia

Can state-owned service providers pull down ads that authorities decide they don’t like? In Slovenia, a state-owned bus company removed ads commissioned by the pro-life NGO Zavod ŽIV!M.

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Tom Mortier: Belgium

In a significant ruling on euthanasia in Oct 2022, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Belgium violated the right to life in the case of Tom Mortier’s mother.

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