Pastor Keshab was sentenced to two years in prison and a fine after sharing gospel tracts and praying with fellow citizens in Nepal. He has appealed the ruling and is temporarily free on bail.
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Pastors Tonchev and Kiryakov: Bulgaria
Two Bulgarian pastors are standing up against a scaremongering campaign by their local government to label all non-Eastern Orthodox Christians as sects and warn children off against them.
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Ugandan people of faith celebrated this September as the nation-wide ban on public worship was lifted after 96 days.
Continue readingShagufta and Shafqat: Pakistan
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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A Christian church is challenging Russian authorities at the European Court of Human Rights for seizing the congregation’s property and leaving the community to gather outside in a tent.
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Anti-Conversion Laws
Four countries in South and Southeast Asia—India, Nepal, Myanmar, and Bhutan—have laws that severely regulate religious conversion. Government officials and the police, in line with increasingly nationalist politicians and lawmakers, selectively enforce these laws, effectively banning conversion from the majority religion to a minority religion, in particular Christianity and Islam. This article examines the language of these anti-conversion laws, the political and religious contexts in which they became law, and their effects on religious minorities.
The UN’s Failure to Protect Religious Freedom
In 1981, the United Nations General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief.
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Glasgow Priest Canon Tom challenged the Scottish government’s blanket ban on public worship at Scotland’s top court – and won.
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Decisive victory for victims of religious persecution in India
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