Pakistan professor Junaid Hafeez convicted for blasphemy laws over Facebook remarks about Muhammad
On December 21, Junaid Hafeez, a Muslim lecturer at the University of Bahauddin Zakriya in Multan, was sentenced to death by a trial court in Multan after being convicted under Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws. More...
Egypt: Mahmoud Abou Zeid, Shawkan, released after spending over 5 years in prison
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails today’s release of Mahmoud Abou Zeid, the Egyptian photojournalist also known as Shawkan, after more than five and a half years in prison, but deplores that the fact that More...
Jeh Johnson discusses detaining illegal immigrants during the Obama administration
The former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson explained during an interview with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC how the Obama Administration expanded family detention of illegal immigrants in order to deal with More...
US exits UN Human Rights Council, Nikki Haley calls it a ‘cesspool of political bias’
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, pointing to the bias against Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers More...
Human Rights Watch reveals Lebanon is evicting thousands of Syria refugees
Lebanon is using force to evict at least 3,664 Syrian refugees from their homes and expelled them from the municipalities, at thirteen at this time, due to their nationality and/or religion. Human Rights Watch More...
CLAAS concerned about Pakistani court ordering citizens to declare religion
A Pakistani court has ruled that all citizens must declare their religion when applying for identity documents. Human rights advocates say the move is another blow for the country’s persecuted religious minorities. The More...
Cyprus police arrest Israeli Moshe Harel, ‘ringleader’ of global organ trafficking ring
Police in Cyprus have arrested an Israeli man described as the “ringleader” of a world-wide organ trafficking network that operated out of the tiny Balkan country of Kosovo several years ago. Identified More...
Ruth Debesay discusses Christian persecution in Eritrea, death of Fikadu Debesay and oppression of believers
World Watch Monitor sat down with Ruth Debesay a week ago, a month after the news broke about the death of Fikadu Debesay, a prisoner who perished in the same camp as Ruth’s spouse, who is being detained More...
Outright attacks President Trump after UN address
On September 18 and 19, President Trump addressed world leaders at the opening of the 72nd Session of the General Assembly in New York. Jessica Stern, Executive Director of OutRight Action International, reacted More...
Nearly 100 Eritrean Christians arrested for illegal church denominations
While many people can’t find the country of Eritrea on a map, it is the 10th harshest persecutor of Christians in the world, according to Open Doors’ World Watch List. A new report provides shocking insight More...
Aya Hijazi released from Egypt prison: Sens. Graham and McCain applaud President Trump
U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and John McCain (R-Arizona) released the following statement on the release of Aya Hijazi and other humanitarian aid workers from prison in Egypt: “We join the entire More...
New Report: Yemen ravaged by Muslim extremists, food electricity and water are scarce
An amazing new analysis on Yemen reveals a shocking devastation from the war with radical Muslims, leaving most of the nation struggling to find food, water or have electricity. “It has been almost two years More...
Liberty Counsel sues Jacksonville over gender identity rules, protective classes for sexual orientation
Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit today to invalidate the so-called Jacksonville “Human Rights Ordinance” or “HRO” because it was adopted in violation of Florida Statutes, the Jacksonville More...
Mike Lee, Marco Rubio speak out against OAS, funding ‘cultural imperialism’ in Central and South America
The Organization of American States (OAS) is funding “cultural imperialism” related to abortion and marriage in Central and South America, according to Senators Mike Lee, R-UT, and Marco Rubio, R-FL, in a new More...
Hillary Clinton seeks to increase Planned Parenthood funding, Bernie Sanders calls her ‘establishment’
photo/ donkeyhotey Planned Parenthood has endorsed Hillary Clinton, the first time the organization has backed a candidate during the primary process and the former Secretary of State wasted no time to show More...
Reuters publishes Islamic State letter justifying organ trafficking
While Reuters claims it couldn’t validate the authenticity of the letter, the Islamic State memo published by the news agency sanctions and justifies the harvesting of human organs to save a Muslim’s More...
